The document discusses using flash fiction to teach sustainability, providing definitions and examples of flash fiction which are very short stories under 500 words focused on imagery, emotion, setting, characters, plot, and backstory. It also includes graphs and figures showing trends in sea level change, temperatures, precipitation, extinctions, and extreme weather events that demonstrate impacts of climate change that could be explored through flash fiction stories.
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1. National Sustainability Teachers’ Academy
Teaching Sustainability with Flash
Fiction
National Sustainability Teachers’ Academy
Climate Change
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National Sustainability Teachers’ Academy
What is Flash Fiction?
• Short stories (500 words or less)
• Focus on imagery and emotion
• Think about:
• Setting
• Characters
• Plot
• Backstory
• Details
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Precipitation
This graph shows how
annual precipitation (in
inches of water) are
expected to change in the
next 80 years
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Extinctions
This figure shows regional
percentages of animal
species at risk of extinction
due to climate change
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Extreme Weather
This figure shows the
number of disasters related
to weather or climate that
cost $1 billion or more from
1980-2012