Climate Change: Have an Effect with 1,000 Small Actions

Positives

• The activities can be used individually to support lessons in your classes or as a complete unit.
• This resource is full of opportunities for student-centered reflections and student autonomy.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• If you choose to do the En-ROADS simulator, you should go through it with students to make sure they understand how to use it first. It is a wonderful tool for students to use!
  
• Right under each video, there's a link that says "View transcript" for use offline.
  
• Students should have a basic understanding of the carbon cycle to help with Unit 2.
• There may be ads before the videos.
  

Differentiation

• Unit 1 could support a classroom discussion on how America's economic system could become more sustainable and what obstacles are in the way of this process taking place.
• This unit could enhance a classroom discussion on the impact climate change may have on human migration patterns and how this movement of people could lead to social and political disruptions.
• Lesson 2 in Unit 1 could accompany a classroom discussion on the impact climate change is already having on home insurance rates in coastal communities.
• Unit 2 could supplement a lesson about how climate change may alter farming practices in the future.