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OER Climate Project: Unit 2 - The Impacts of Climate Change

Alexandre Scott

OER Community,

We had an amazing lesson in 2.1 about the direct and then the indirect rippling effects of Climate Change. My intuition told me that students needed more background information, beyond the great article provided, of various impacts to fully express the indirect impacts; however, my students surprised me in their aptitude for these domino effects!

With that said, I am still curious for more background information to supplement the lesson, or ideas to build up my student’s background knowledge on the plethora of impacts - not leading to climate change, but the impacts to follow - that we could dive into.

I shared with them the disruption of migration patterns in various species, loss of biodiversity, etc. and we have made more personal connections to human economics. 


Any resources to add to my kiddos mastery of our Unit 2 Learning Objectives about Direct and Indirect aftermaths?

Any Lab ideas!?


Thank you
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    Hello:

    This is a work in progress which is specific to Florida standards but just to point out the lab simulations in the Climate Unit.

    Hope this is useful,

    Lisa

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    I'm so glad you asked about lab ideas because I almost forgot about this one. It will probably only help those who live in NJ, but over the summer I found out about the Lending Library at Rutgers University. Even if you aren't in NJ, it might have some ideas you can run with!

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    As a History teacher, I try to integrate climate change into political parties and modern issues that concern the United States. This source was extremely helpful in showing bias and how people look at climate change. Definitely a way to showcase indirect aftermaths. 

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    It seems that there is almost a daily headline about the direct and indirect impacts of climate change: microbes frozen in permafrost that are still viable, the spread of warm climate diseases to areas that have traditionally been too cold to support them, the cycle of drought and flood in California that impacts agriculture and our food supply, square miles breaking off of ice sheets that leads to sea level rise etc. Perhaps students could do a climate current event research activity? They could focus locally or take their explorations further afield to discover ways that communities are being affected directly and indirectly by a changing climate.