What Is Climate Adaptation?
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Provided by: The Nature Conservancy|Published on: March 22, 2023
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Synopsis
- This animated video explains the concept of climate adaptation and the many ways nature can help us mitigate and adapt to climate change.
- The video introduces students to different ways communities can adapt to climate change, such as through ecosystem protection and resilient agriculture, and the challenges they may face.
Subjects: Biology, Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: The Nature Conservancy
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- The video uses engaging animations to explain concepts like extreme weather, carbon sequestration, and inequality.
- The video highlights how those disproportionately impacted often have the least access to adaptation solutions.
Additional Prerequisites
- Before watching the video, students should understand the causes and effects of climate change.
- Students should understand the concepts of resiliency and vulnerability.
- The video ends at 2 minutes, 11 seconds.
Differentiation
- It is essential that students are aware that many of the most affected communities have already been adapting to climate change for years, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to do so.
- Science classes can use this video to make an emotional connection to lessons about ecosystems, the carbon cycle, the water cycle, photosynthesis, and marine ecosystems.
- Although not mentioned in the video, students should also know that the most affected communities are especially in need of financing for these solutions.
- This video can be used to introduce students to the concept of climate justice.
- This resource can also be used in health classes during lessons about the effects of climate change on health outcomes and in social studies classes during lessons about equity.
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The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy is a global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive. The Nature Conservancy has grown to become one of the most effective and wide-reaching environmental organizations in the world.
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