This video discusses the resiliency of communities during and after climate disasters.
Students will learn that communities with stronger social ties have higher rates of survival and rebuilding than more disconnected communities.
The video concludes that local governments should invest in infrastructure and community services that encourage residents to interact to make their communities more resilient.
Teaching Tips
Positives
The video incorporates engaging imagery as well as clear text to help ensure student understanding and engagement.
Additional Prerequisites
Students will need to be familiar with the concept of climate change.
Students will need to be aware of what climate-related disasters are.
Differentiation
This is an excellent video for social studies and civics classes to use when discussing the importance of community.
Middle school and high school social studies and civics classes can use this video when identifying ways in which individuals and communities can take action involving climate change.
This resource is a 6-minute video that discusses ways in which different communities respond to extreme weather events, particularly in the context of climate change. A 1995 heat wave in Chicago is presented as an example. This resource makes a convincing case that communities that are more connected tend to be more resilient to extreme weather events, in part because residents in these communities tend to know their neighbors and can check in on them during emergencies. This resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
Dimension 2: Geography
D2.Geo.6.6-8 Explain how the physical and human characteristics of places and regions are connected to human identities and cultures.
D2.Geo.4.3-5 Explain how culture influences the way people modify and adapt to their environments.
Dimension 4: Taking Informed Action
D4.7.6-8 Assess their individual and collective capacities to take action to address local, regional, and global problems, taking into account a range of possible levers of power, strategies, and potential outcomes.
