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Climate Change and Infectious Diseases
Grade Level
High School
  • Students will be able to identify the wide range of ways in which climate change is affecting our health
  • Students will be able to articulate how these effects can be addressed
Lesson Plan
Climate Change: Introduction
Grade Level
High School
  • Students will understand how the greenhouse effect functions and how it is pushing the earth toward tipping points.
Lesson Plan
Climate Change: Mitigation
Grade Level
High School
  • Students will be able to categorize the various ways in which human activity causes climate change, and analyze the potential for mitigating those effects.
Lesson Plan
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.