• This animated video explains the concept of climate adaptation and the many ways nature can help us mitigate and adapt to climate change.
• The video introduces students to different ways communities can adapt to climate change, such as through ecosystem protection and resilient agriculture, and the challenges they may face.

Positives

• The video uses engaging animations to explain concepts like extreme weather, carbon sequestration, and inequality.
• The video highlights how those disproportionately impacted often have the least access to adaptation solutions.

Additional Prerequisites

• Before watching the video, students should understand the causes and effects of climate change.
• Students should understand the concepts of resiliency and vulnerability.
• The video ends at 2 minutes, 11 seconds.
  

Differentiation

• It is essential that students are aware that many of the most affected communities have already been adapting to climate change for years, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to do so.
• Science classes can use this video to make an emotional connection to lessons about ecosystems, the carbon cycle, the water cycle, photosynthesis, and marine ecosystems.
  
• Although not mentioned in the video, students should also know that the most affected communities are especially in need of financing for these solutions.
• This video can be used to introduce students to the concept of climate justice.
• This resource can also be used in health classes during lessons about the effects of climate change on health outcomes and in social studies classes during lessons about equity.

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