Coastal Resilience Working Group

• This article discusses how climate change could impact coastal communities in Wisconsin if heavy precipitation continues to increase, ice cover continues to decline, and coastal flooding increases as expected.
• Students will learn that extreme precipitation could lead to bluff slope instability, further ice cover decline would leave Wisconsin's coastline vulnerable to dangerous amounts of wave energy, and increases in coastal flooding could cause infrastructure damage.

Positives

• This article provides climate adaptation strategies for coastal communities in Wisconsin.
• This article precisely details the threats facing Wisconsin's coastline.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should know what bluffs are and why they're important.
• Students should know what ice cover is, why it matters, and how climate change impacts it.
  

Differentiation

• If the article is being shown in a Zoom lesson, the teacher could annotate and explain key words, phrases, and concepts in order to enhance comprehension. 
• Teachers could have students read this article at home to prepare for an in-class discussion on the socioeconomic challenges posed by climate change.
• Students could use this article for an informative essay on climate adaptation strategies that communities can employ.
• This article could support a lesson on the American government's approach to fossil fuels since the 20th century and how that approach is impacting us today.