Climate Change Curriculum

Journey Map : What the learning will include

Introduction to the module

Guidelines for the content

Beginning

Starting a Garden

Resource Pool

Cooking

Cooking and Eating

Background and Pedagogy

Central Questions

A) Mind Map

B) Unpacking what we know

C) Discussion

D) Homework: Speak to a grandparent

Preparing: Soil, Manure, Water, Mulch

Background and Pedagogy

Central Questions

A) Conversation about Food Ideology

B) Movie about Food Industry

C) Discussion

D) Thought Experiment: Island Question

E) Homework: Geo-cultural Journeys of Food

Background and Pedagogy

Central Questions

A) Gathering Individual perspectives on the hunting-gathering way of life

B) Discussions around 'advanced Vs primitive' etc

C) Case Study on the Bushmen of the Kalahari

C) Case Study on the Onge people of the Andamans

C) Case Study on the Warli of Maharashtra

D) Sharing insights about hunting-gathering cultures

E) Homework: Hunting-Gathering for Non-Humans

Gathering, Foraging, Cooking

Seeds, Sowing and Germination

Background and Pedagogy

Central Questions

A) Introduction to Nomadic Pastoralism

B) Video Clips and Photo Essay on different Nomadic Pastoralists

C) Discussion

D) Settled Pastoralism

E) Reflections

F) Homework: Nomadic Pastoralists today

Background and Pedagogy

Central questions

A) Sharing Homework

B) Overview on agrarian life (Video)

C) Sharing perspectives

D) Reading: On Belonging

E) Writing on Belonging

F) Discussion

G) Homework

Making by Hand

Caring for the Garden: Composting, Watering, Jeevamritam, Harvesting

Background and Pedagogy

Central questions

A) A brief exploration

B) Caste and land in British India

C) Further thoughts: Discussion

D) Further thoughts: Writing

E) Crown Rule & Commercialisation

F) Homework: Interview to gather intergenerational views on colonial period

Background and pedagogy

Central questions

A) Discussion on Plantations

B) Case Study on Plantations in the Western Ghats

C) Further reflections

D) Homework

Background and Pedagogy

Central questions

A) Introduction

B) Political Motivations behind promoting the 'Green Revolution'

C) Technological Face of the 'Green Revolution '

D) Impacts in Punjab and rest of India

E) Homework: Intensive Agriculture around you

Exploring more wholesome foods

Local Organic Farm

Background and pedagogy

Central Questions

A) Corporate control over the food system

B) Horrors of the modern day meat industry

C) Homework: Visit to a Poultry Farm and Essay

Background and Pedagogy

Central questions

A) How much do you know about GMOs ?

B) Introduction to GMOs

C) Exploring Claim 1: GMOs are an extension of traditional practices, and a part of human progress

D) Exploring Claim 2: Genetic Modification is an exact science and is safe

E) Exploring Claim 3: GMOs can help us address many challenges in modern agriculture including climate change, but are being stalled by uneducated fearful people

F) Homework & Further Reading: GMO around us?

Background and Pedagogy

A) Introduction

Central Questions

B) A Look Into the Movements: Organic Farming (Readings & Videos)

C) A Look into the Movements: Natural Farming & Permaculture (Readings & Videos)

D) A Look into the Movements: Alternative Retail (Readings & Videos)

E) A Look into the Movements: Challenges from the Kitchen (Reading)

F) Homework: Movements around you

Local Counter-Currents

Background and pedagogy

Central Questions

A) Perspectives on land degradation

B) Land degradation in the context of climate change

C) Drivers of degradations

References of chapter (apart from cited research)

Background and Pedagogy

Central Questions

A) Mind Map

Part One: Relationships

B) Mind Map 2

Part two: connections

E) Discussions: Complexity, Diversification, Decentralization

References of chapter (apart from cited research)

Harvest, Seed-Saving, Planning

Caring for something around you