CFR Education: The Paris Agreement

Positives

• This lesson has many terms that may be new for students but it does an excellent job of providing the definitions, either in context or by clicking the terms.
• Students get to see the timeline of the Paris Agreement.

Additional Prerequisites

• At the top of the article, there are links for the lesson plan and a discussion guide for higher education. Question 6 in the discussion guide pertains to this article in particular, however the rest of the resources are for classrooms using other sections as well.
• Students should understand what climate change is, that human-produced carbon emissions are contributing to climate change, and that these emissions are primarily due to the use of fossil fuels.

Differentiation

• Students in civics classes can look at their own country's nationally determined contributions and discuss how effective they seem to be and/or what they are lacking. These students can also discuss the ways in which a government can ensure that these measures take place, including what kinds of regulations and/or new laws would need to be enacted.
• Students can propose nationally determined contributions for their own country, looking at the many climate solutions available from this table.
  
• Students in math classes can download the data, interpret the graphs provided, and answer questions about them.