How Will Climate Change Affect NJ's Transportation, Energy, and Communications Infrastructure?

• This video explains how rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and sea level rise will have a direct impact on transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure in New Jersey. 

Positives

• This video will show students how vulnerable New Jersey's infrastructure is to climate change.
• Students will see how climate change is connected to many elements of everyday life.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should have a good understanding of what is causing climate change because the video only addresses the effects of climate change.
  

Differentiation

• Art classes could make memes that show how some element of the transportation, energy, or communications infrastructure will be impacted by climate change.
• In English language arts classes, students could write a personal narrative about a time when their lives were impacted by transportation, energy, or communications systems failing due to extreme weather.
• Other resources on this topic include this video about why climate change causes more extreme weather, this Hot Mess video about how rising temperatures cause more severe hurricanes, and this video about engineering solutions for the future.