This curriculum focuses on youth building leadership skills to effectively serve as agents of change around plastic-related issues. Throughout the leadership learning sections, youth will work together to ask critical questions about our use of plastics and determine how they can become a change agent for the planet and address issues of plastics/plastic pollution. Youth can choose from two leadership paths: Teens as Teachers or Teens Engaged in Community Action. Each path offers meaningful leadership opportunities for youth to serve as teachers and community leaders. Through discussion and reflective activities, youth will gain knowledge, skills, and confidence to transform their concern for the environment into action. Youth will learn with and about other change agents, including young people who are leading projects to reduce the environmental impacts of plastic waste. We encourage instructors to collect feedback throughout this module and submit via this evaluation form: 4hpolymers.org/evaluation.(http://4hpolymers.org/evaluation)

Overview • Facilitator Resources • Importance of Youth-Adult Partnership • Adult Self-Assessment • Youth Roles • Adult Roles • Experiencing Adultism Partnering with Teens • Teen Sparks • Listening for Sparks • Tips for Partnering With Teens • Tips For Crafting the Learning Environment • Discussion Warm-Ups • Tools For Group Discussion Youth Learning Outcomes • Change Agent Approach Matrix • Understanding the Plastic Life Cycle Section 1: Discovering the Power of Why • Activity 1: Teen Sparks • Activity 2: Cultivating Hopeful Purpose Section 2: Building Leadership Skills in Youth Change Makers • Activity 1: Self-Reflection: Teen Leadership Worksheet • Activity 2: Identity Wheel Section 3: Choosing A Change Making Path • Activity 1: Exploring Youth and Adult Partnerships • Activity 2: Our Youth & Adult Partnership • Activity 3: Choosing a Change Making Path Section 4: Teens as Teachers Path • Activity 1: Remembering a GREAT teacher or group leader • Activity 2: Thriving Together • Activity 3: Understanding Ages and Developmental Stages • Activity 4: Leading Learning for Everyone - Draw a Scientist • Activity 5: Experiential Learning and Inquiry-Model It! • Activity 6: Five Essential Teaching Skills • Activity 7: Giving Directions (Optional Activity) Section 5: Teens Engaging in Community Action Path • Activity 1: Understanding My Community • Activity 2: Discovering the community action project • Activity 3: Planning the community action project • Activity 4: Leading the Community Action Project • Activity 5: Sharing and Reflecting on the action project

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