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Climate Change Impacts and Costs to Illinois Communities
Provided by: Prairie Research Institute |Published on: May 6, 2025
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Synopsis
This article from the Illinois State Climatologist highlights the significant changes in weather patterns that Illinois has experienced over the past 120 years.
The consequences of the changes in weather patterns on public health are discussed in detail.
Costs associated with climate change in Illinois are explored.
This article does a wonderful job of explaining specific examples of how climate change affects public health in Illinois.
The reader will learn about the potential costs of climate change.
Prerequisites
Background knowledge on the historically rising temperatures and rainfall patterns in Illinois should be understood.
Lyme disease, West Nile virus, and other tick-borne illnesses should be discussed to make the correlation to the data displayed in this article with climate change.
Differentiation & Implementation
Although this is a 6-8 grade resource, it can be utilized with high school as well.
This article can be used to explore how climate change negatively impacts human health.
This lesson on tick-borne illnesses and climate change can be used alongside this resource.
In geography classes, students can compare Illinois data for weather-related disasters and the occurrence of tick-borne illnesses to data from other locations.
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