WICCI's Climate Working Group

Positives

• This article is concise and filled with engaging visuals.
• It presents the data, connects it to local events, and provides solutions and strategies to help.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students need to understand the basics of global warming and the water cycle.
• The 2021 report can be downloaded as a PDF or viewed online.

Differentiation

• This article could supplement a lesson on environmental justice and how this type of oppression impacts the personal health of these communities.
• This article could support a lesson about climate change and its connection to extreme weather events.
• This article could enhance a classroom discussion on which states take climate change seriously, which states don't, and the implications of this discrepancy.
• Science classes can use this article and linked report to evaluate the evidence of global warming, climate change, and the effects on Wisconsin's ecosystems and people.