CFR Education: Climate Change Adaptations

• This interactive text includes a global tour of climate adaptation strategies utilized in different regions and a description of climate mitigation and climate adaptation practices.
• This is the thirteenth section of the Climate Change module and it includes a lesson plan for the policy-related sections and a discussion guide for higher education classes to help contextualize climate adaptation within the broader topic of climate change.

Positives

• The structure of the map next to the description of the adaptation strategy is helpful for students to keep track of the locations as they read.
• Pictures and videos related to each country's adaptation strategies are included on the map.
• The map represents a diverse array of countries and mentions Indigenous adaptations to climate change.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar with terms such as climate migration, drought, saltwater intrusion, and sea level rise.
• Some of the links in the lesson plan are broken, but many of the broken links link to a single slide that can be found in the comprehensive Google Slides file at the top of the lesson plan titled "Climate Change: Policy Presentation."

Differentiation

• Before reviewing the interactive map, ask students to define adaptation and discuss how it can relate to climate change.
• Consider creating a graphic organizer with titles such as cause, effect, solution, and results for each region.
• After reviewing the map, have students choose different climate adaptation strategies to research further and discover an additional region implementing each practice.
• Consider having students create a list of climate change impacts in their community and brainstorm possible adaptation strategies.
• For an extension, have students write an essay to answer the question, "Why are climate adaptation solutions and practices dependent on geographic region?"