Oregon Already Has a Climate Refugee Crisis

Positives

• This video allows students to hear firsthand accounts from Oregonians who survived the 2020 Labor Day wildfires.
• This resource displays a connection between climate change, government policy, and human impacts.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be somewhat familiar with the concept of climate change and global warming.
• Students should understand that there is a connection between climate change, an increase in natural disasters, and an increase in the severity of natural disasters.

Differentiation

• This video could be used to show the consequences of any government policies that have negatively impacted our climate.
• This video could be used by students as supporting evidence for a multimedia research project about the effects of climate change on communities or the disproportionate effects of climate change on those least able to recover from the changes occurring.
• Students could also use the video for a research project that focuses on climate change's influence on human activities and vice versa.
• After watching the video, a classroom discussion could be facilitated with a mix of opinion-based and fact-oriented questions to help students decipher why Oregon is in this position and what can be done to improve the present and future situations of Oregonians and our planet.