A Climate Future
Teacher Resources
Driving Question: How will climate change shape our future?
We’re already seeing climate change’s impact on ecosystems and communities, but what our future will look like is up to us. Explore how things might look decades from now based on our current path, and what can be done to shape the future we want to see.
Learning Objectives:
- Evaluate the potential impact of climate change on health, jobs, and human systems.
- Identify personal actions that can have an impact on climate change.
Vocab Terms:
- biofuel
- crop yields
- hydrogen fuel
- infrastructure
- malnutrition
Opener: A Climate Future
To teach this lesson step, refer to page 2 of Lesson 4.4 Teaching Guide.
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What will a future with climate change hold? Well, it depends…
Envisioning a Climate Future
To teach this lesson step, refer to page 2 of Lesson 4.4 Teaching Guide.
Our Data Literacy Guide provides a summary of strategies to help students read the data, read between the data, and read beyond the data – check it out!
What will the world look like decades from now, and what can we do to create the future we want to inhabit? Choose one of the three categories below—or explore them all—to see what the future may hold, and investigate the data behind those predictions.
Investigating Climate Careers
To teach this lesson step, refer to page 7 of Lesson 4.4 Teaching Guide.
Learn more about preparing students for a climate-focused career with this blog post.
Who are the experts we need to build the future we want? Explore different careers and see how you might fit in.
Closer: A Climate Future
To teach this lesson step, refer to page 9 of Lesson 4.4 Teaching Guide.
Our Openers and Closers Guide will provide more information about these short, but important, activities at the beginning and end of each lesson.
What do YOU think is most likely to be true in the future? Consider what you’ve learned and make predictions for what’s coming.
DBQ: Decarbonization (Unit 4)
To teach this lesson step, refer to page 9 of Lesson 4.4 Teaching Guide.
Our Assessment Guide shares our approach to assessments of all kinds – check it out!
This writing assessment is an opportunity for you to showcase what you’ve learned in this unit by analyzing documents and creating an argument about the best approaches to decarbonization.
