Climate Resilience Toolkit

• This overview of the toolikit provides articles, videos, maps, reports, and other information about the threats of climate change and the vulnerabilities of communities.
• Students will learn about what climate resilience is, how to improve it, and how different parts of the country are impacted by climate change differently. 

Positives

• This resource is a wealth of information about climate resilience and could be used to facilitate an entire unit.
• Students will benefit from the layout of this toolkit, as it is broken into manageable parts that build upon the previous sections. 

Additional Prerequisites

• Before using this toolkit, be sure that students have a basic understanding of climate change and the threats that a changing climate poses. 
  

Differentiation

• Cross-curricular connections can be made in health classes considering how human health will be impacted by climate change.
• This resource is an excellent place for preliminary reading and learning about many topics dealing with climate change.
• This resource would work well for student research projects, where each student has a different aspect of the resource to learn about and create a written or digital products to showcase their learning. 
• The regional reports are especially beneficial when talking about how climate change is impacting different areas of the United States or they can be used for students to study resilience where they live.