This article explains how climate change is causing increases in extreme weather incidents, negatively affecting air quality, and threatening the health and safety of Wisconsinites.
Students will learn about the health effects of flooding, high ozone levels, and warming temperatures as the climate continues to change.
Teaching Tips
Positives
This article has some intense photos that should make an impression in students' minds.
This article mentions redlining and how it relates to flooding.
Additional Prerequisites
Students should know the following terms: respiratory, ozone, pollen, and heat island effect.
Students should know what redlining was, which groups were targeted, and how this practice impacts marginalized groups today.
Differentiation
Teachers can read this article before class and take notes on which sections may confuse students during the lesson.
Students can use this article for an informative essay on how climate change will impact some groups more than others.
For ELLs, it may be useful to define some words before these students dive into the reading.
Students can use this article for a research project on how climate change will impact many facets of human existence in drastic ways.
Scientist Notes
This resource is the webpage for the Human Health Working Group for the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts. The page steps readers through various climate change issues impacting Wisconsin and how they relate to human health. The page also discusses potential solutions, links to related articles written by the group, and explains some climate justice issues. This webpage does not explain the science behind climate change and why the impacts mentioned are occurring, but it does link to other resources. The information presented is accurate and this resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
HS-ESS3-1 Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, and changes in climate have influenced human activity.
Common Core English Language Arts Standards (CCSS.ELA)
Reading: Informational Text (K-12)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.2 Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.
National Health Education Standards
Standard 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
1.12.3 Analyze how environment and personal health are interrelated.
