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BSED - SCIENCE DAILY LESSON PLAN

SCHOOL Samar State University YEAR LEVEL Third Year College
DAILY
LESSON TEACHER Bencelle C. Longara SUBJECT Sci 15 - Waves and Optics
PLAN
DATE/TIME 5:30 – 8:30 PM QUARTER 1st Semester - Finals

I. OBJECTIVES

A. Content Standard The learners demonstrate literacy in writing climate fiction.

B. Performance Standard The learners should be able to learn how to write climate fiction to create
awareness about climate change.

C. Learning Competencies The learners should be able to:

1. Familiarized with the concept of climate fiction.
2. Apply the guideline in making a climate fiction.
3. Create their own climate fiction story.
4. To reflect on ways we can mitigate the effect of climate change.

II. CONTENT

A. References 1. Climate in Arts and History: Promoting Climate Literacy Across

Disciplines
1. Writing the Future with Climate Fiction. 2024

B. Other Learning
Laptop, projector, pictures, PowerPoint presentation
Resources

III. PROCEDURE

Activity 1: Describe the Picture

ELICIT

Review Questions:
● Based on the pictures presented, what do you think our lesson for today
is all about?

● Did you already read a book that depicts climate change? or watch a
movie that depicts climate change?
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Activity 2: Who am I!

Direction:
The students will guess if the definition being given is referring to fiction or
nonfiction. The students will respond “Oh no!” if their answer is nonfiction, If
ENGAGE their answer is fiction the students will respond “Olala!”

1. True Events - Oh no!

2. For information - Oh no!
3. Imaginary - Olala!
4. Facts that actually occurred - Oh no!
5. For fun - Olala!

Activity 3: Role Play

Direction:
The class will be divided into 2. Each group should make a scenario and act on
EXPLORE the topic designated to them.

GROUP 1 - Natural phenomenon that causes climate change

GROUP 2 - Human activities that causes climate change

The teacher will now ask and allow the students to share their realizations and
learnings on the activity.

EXPLAIN Guide questions:

1. What did you realize or learn in the activity?
2. Do you think what you did in the activity (making a scenario about
climate change) will help you in our discussion rightnow? How?

ELABORATE
What is Climate Fiction?
- Cli-fi, short for climate fiction, is a form of fiction literature that
features a changed or changing climate. It is rooted in science fiction,
but also draws on realism and the supernatural.
- The term “cli-fi” became popular in the 2010s, but people have been
writing cli-fi unintentionally for at least a couple of centuries. For
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example, Darkness by Lord Byron, written in 1816, is an example of

cli-fi.
- Lord Byron’s 1816 poem, Darkness is one of the earliest literary works
to be considered climate fiction by contemporary standards and was sort
of accidentally a cli-fi story. In it, “the bright sun was extinguished” and
the world went dark. Without heat, people took extreme measures for
survival, war and famine broke out, and civilization collapsed.

Climate Change
- refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.
- These shifts may be natural, but since the 1800s, human activities have
been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of
fossil fuels (like coal, oil and gas), which produces heat-trapping
gasses.
- volcanic eruptions, fluctuations in solar radiation, tectonic shifts, and
even small changes in our orbit have all had observable effects on
planetary warming and cooling patterns.

Fiction
- Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying
individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are
imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history, fact,
or plausibility.
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How To Write Climate Fiction

There is only one true requirement to writing climate fiction: your story must be
about, revolve around, or be set against the backdrop of a climate crisis. Some
have even gone so far as to say that cli-fi must be about human-driven climate
change.

Typical elements of cli-fi works:

1. Accelerated pacing that is punctuated by crisis
2. An anxious and fearful mood
3. A setting that undergoes dramatic transformations
4. A plot that centers around the emotional arcs of the characters
- Climate change is a deep-rooted systemic problem that cannot
be solved by a single protagonist in a story, so the drama must
revolve around emotions.

Subgenres of Climate Fiction

1. Post-apocalyptic or Dystopian Fiction

- Climate fiction is a natural home for post-apoc and dystopian settings,
so it’s no wonder that this tops the list. These stories see a juxtaposition
of the old world against the new—cities fall and get rebuilt, society gets
destroyed and is reborn as something new. Life, after all, finds a way,
but sometimes it gets a little twisted.
2. Dying Earth
- Authors writing in the Dying Earth subgenre of science fiction, more
often than not, are writing about the end of Earth as we know it. In
other words, the death of an Earth with habitable conditions—not
necessarily the death of the planet itself. In this way, the Dying Earth
subgenre expresses that same existential anxiety found at the heart of
climate fiction.
3. Solarpunk
- Where post-apocalyptic and dystopian stories can present an ugly,
broken world, solarpunk seeks to paint a picture of utopia—a world of
potential and possibility, to not only survive the climate crisis, but
become better because of it. In the solarpunk society, nature and
technology coexist in harmony vs. being in opposition.

4. Hopepunk
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- Hopepunk is perhaps more of a side effect of solarpunk’s role in climate

fiction than actually a subgenre of cli-fi. Often described as the opposite
of grimdark fiction, hopepunk gives us worlds of fantasy in which
characters actually have, you guessed it, hope! Hopepunk certainly
doesn’t shy away from darker themes, but rather than leaving it at just
that, optimism gets its chance to shine.

Common Themes in Climate Fiction

● Economic or Social Injustice

● Threat to All Known Life

● Humanity’s Hubris

● The Duality of Human Nature

● Hope

Common Settings In Climate Fiction

● Endangered or Abandoned Cities

● Remote Arctic Regions

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● Deserts

● Islands

Purpose of Climate Fiction

- Not only does fiction offer a powerful medium to explore hopes and
fears about climate change and imagine potential solutions, it also
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provides a means to broaden the range of voices roadmapping a way

forward.

Cli-fi could play an important role in helping to prepare for, cope with and
devise solutions for the climate crisis.
● The genre as a whole shows the range of potential
consequences of climate change, as each work imagines the
consequences differently.
● By presenting and exploring fictional solutions, cli-fi helps
readers imagine potential real-life solutions to the climate
crisis.
● Storytelling is one of the most powerful ways to build
emotional resilience. As a result, cli-fi can help readers adapt to
a changing climate.
● In addition to building emotional resilience, cli-fi also helps
readers connect emotionally to the climate crisis, which is
perhaps its most important achievement. Studies show that a
lack of emotional connection to their future selves prevents
people from taking actions in the present that may help them in
the future. Connecting with characters who are experiencing the
effects of climate change can help readers connect with their
future selves potentially experiencing similar effects. In this
way, cli-fi narratives may be more effective at driving action
compared to scientific literature alone.
● Cli-fi gives people an alternative starting point to the climate
change conversation. Climate change can be daunting to talk
about, but doing so in the context of a fictional story may make
it easier.

ASSESSMENT

ESSAY

EVALUATE 1. What is the requirement in writing climate fiction? And what is the
purpose of climate fiction?
2. If you’re going to write climate fiction, what genre, theme, and setting
do you prefer? why?
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ASSIGNMENT

Watch the movie Geostorm in 2017 and make a reflection paper. The reflection
paper should contain introduction, body and conclusion. Please avoid copying
from the internet. Make your own reflection. Copied reflections will be
automatically zero.

EXTEND

Guide questions:
1. What climate change effect do the movie depict?
2. What is your reaction about how the climate change in the movie is
being depicted?
3. How does the movie help you in creating your own climate fiction?