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Climate Change: Coffee and Costs
Grade Level
High School
  • Students will be able to articulate the costs of climate change to the economy and to food and water security.
  • Students will be able to identify some of the impacts of climate change in their own community.
     
Activity
Create a Mitigation Awareness Video
Length
One 60-90 minute class period
Learning Objectives

Students will work together to design and film public-facing awareness videos regarding greenhouse gas emissions and opportunities for greenhouse gas mitigation.

Lesson Plan
Climate Change: Policy
Grade Level
High School
  • Students will be able to articulate the debate over who should be responsible for combating climate change
  • Students will be able to identify how the Paris Agreement addresses this question, and the benefits and drawbacks of that approach
  • Students will be able to identify some of the ways in which countries are combating climate change
Lesson Plan
Climate Change: Effects
Grade Level
High School
  • Students will be able to identify some of the effects of climate change on their own communities and on communities around the world.
Lesson Plan
Climate Change: Actions
Grade Level
High School
  • Students will learn about methods being used to address climate change such as the use of AI as well as the Inflation Reduction Act.
Book Guide
The River Runs Black

In this book, CFR Senior Fellow Elizabeth C. Economy uses historical research, case studies, and interviews with officials, scholars, and activists in China to provide insightful analysis of the economic and political roots of China’s environmental challenge as well as the evolution of the leadership’s response. Teaching notes by the author.

Lesson Plan
Development: Around the World
Grade Level
High School
  • Students will study the "two Koreas" and the Marshall plan in order to understand the role of development in geopolitics.
  • Students will consider U.S. foreign aid policy and criticisms of it, then propose a policy and write an op-ed article supporting that policy.
Lesson Plan
Development: Topics in Development
Grade Level
High School
  • Students will analyze the various ways in which development can be impacted by globalization by discussing the distribution of vaccines and petroleum.
  • Students will discuss the importance of taxation as it relates to the development of a country.
Lesson Plan
Development: Introduction
Grade Level
High School
  • Students learn about the basics of global development.
  • Students will learn about the sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and research the progress of their local community toward achieving them.