Unit 2: The Impacts of Climate Change
Teacher Resources
Unit 2 Guide
Everything you need to know about Unit 2.
Unit 2 Vocab Guide
Key Unit 2 vocabulary words.
Blog: Translating Data and Evidence
Helping students navigate data.
OER Teaching Sensitive Topics in Social Studies Guide
Support for having difficult discussions.
We’ve all been impacted by climate change in some way, directly or indirectly. What are the impacts of climate change and how are these impacts affecting natural and human systems around the world?
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Lesson 2.1
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Lesson 2.2
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Lesson 2.3
Featured Materials
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How Will Climate Change Continue to Affect Us? Crash Course Climate & Energy #8
Climate change is already being felt by ecosystems and communities around the world, but not always in the same ways or to the same extent. This video explores the current and potential effects of climate change.
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Climate Change Impacts Profiles
Explore individual stories from different regions of the world to identify and evaluate the various impacts these individuals are experiencing and learn more about the direct and indirect impacts of climate change.
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Data Exploration: The Direct Impacts of Climate Change
This data exploration focuses on global sea-level rise—its connections to greenhouse gas emissions and the ways it threatens human communities all over the world.
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Claim Testing – The Impacts of Climate Change
You’ve learned a lot about the direct impacts of climate change. Now it’s time to use your claim-testing skills and evidence from this lesson to evaluate some of the claims about these direct impacts.
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This Bites!
Mosquitoes kill hundreds of thousands of people annually by transmitting diseases such as malaria and dengue fever. We were making progress against the spread of vector-borne diseases, but climate change is making mosquitoes more dangerous as they evolve and spread to new areas.
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Climate Impact Journal Entry
This brief writing activity will help you reflect on what you’ve learned and how the impacts of climate change affect you and your community.
Teaching This Unit
Unit 2 Guide
Everything you need to know about Unit 2.
Unit 2 Vocab Guide
Key Unit 2 vocabulary words.
Blog: Translating Data and Evidence
Helping students navigate data.
OER Teaching Sensitive Topics in Social Studies Guide
Support for having difficult discussions.