As a High School or Undergraduate Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences, or Geography teacher, you can use this lesson plan to teach your students about climate change and global warming and specifically the impacts of climate change in China.
This lesson plan provides an introduction to climate change, causes and impacts of climate change globally, climate change risk profile for China that includes climate impacts on major sectors of the country such as agriculture, water resources, human health, and energy. This lesson plan also includes the current and future health risks in China due to climate change.
Thus, the use of this lesson plan allows you to teach Climate Science and Climate Change in your Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences, and Geography classrooms.
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The tools in this lesson plan will enable students to:
(Here is a step-by-step guide to using this lesson plan in the classroom/laboratory. We have suggested these steps as a possible plan of action. You may customize the lesson plan according to your preferences and requirements.)
Reading (15 min) and Video (5-15 min)
Introduce to your students what is climate change and global warming using a reading from the NASA Global Climate Change website. This resource contains information about what is the scientific evidence for climate change, causes and impacts of climate change.
Optional: You may choose to provide your students with further information about global climate change using a set of video micro-lectures. This set of 7 of short video micro-lectures (2-5 minutes in length) have been developed by the National Research Council, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
They include:
Reading (30 min)
Use the following readings to explain climate change and climate risks in China to your students.
Each section contains relevant climate change information including data, projections, and visualizations. The data is visualized through interactive graphs and users can select different indices, model projections, timescales, and sectors to better understand the impacts of climate change in China.
Reading (15 min)
Use a reading by the World Health Organization (WHO) to stress to your students how climate change can impact human health in China. This factsheet (8 pages) titled Climate Change and Health: Country Profile: China includes information on climate hazard projections for China and current and future health risks of climate change in China. You could use this factsheet to help your students better understand what risks does climate change pose to human health in China with respect to infectious disease, undernutrition etc.
Classroom/Laboratory Activity(15 min)
You may wish to conduct an optional activity to further engage your students in understanding climate change in your country. You may ask your students to refer to the Climate Stories section. TROP ICSU can help your students search for climate stories from your region in the following categories:
You may carry out a student-led group discussion on climate impacts in your country and potential solutions to the climate crisis.
Use this Lesson Plan to help the students to understand and find answers to:
| 1 | Data Visualization; Climate Watch: Country China | Data Visualization: China’s Climate Progress from Climate Watch. This can be accessed at here |
| 2 | Infographic; GHG Emissions and Climate Risk China | Infographic: Environment and Global Climate Change sector in China, IDEA USAID. This can be accessed at here |
| 3 | Reading; ‘China’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC)’ | Document submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This can be accessed at here |
| 4 | Webpage; ‘INDCs as communicated by Parties*’ on UNFCCC’ | UNFCCC webpage for accessing the INDCs for various nations. This can be accessed at here |
| 5 | Teaching Modules; ‘Climate Change and Human Health Lesson Plans’ | Educational material by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). This can be accessed at here |
| 1 | Reading “The Causes of Climate Change” | by the NASA Global Climate Change website |
| 2 | A set of videos; “Climate Change: Lines of Evidence” | Presented by National Research Council, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
| 3 | Readings; “Climate Change Risk Profile- Southern Africa’ and ‘Climate Change Information Fact Sheet- China’ | By ClimateLinks:A Global Knowledge Portal for Climate and Development Practitioners, USAID. |
| 4 | Reading; “Climate and Health Country Profile- 2015: China” | By World Health Organization (WHO). |
| 5 | Additional Resources |
(Here is a step-by-step guide to using this lesson plan in the classroom/laboratory. We have suggested these steps as a possible plan of action. You may customize the lesson plan according to your preferences and requirements.)
Reading (15 min) and Video Micro-Lectures (5 15 min)
Introduce to your students what is climate change and global warming using a reading from the NASA Global Climate Change website. This resource contains information about what is the scientific evidence for climate change, causes and impacts of climate change.
Optional: You may choose to provide your students with further information about global climate change using a set of video micro-lectures. This set of 7 of short video micro-lectures (2-5 minutes in length) have been developed by the National Research Council, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
They include:
Reading (30 min)
Use the following readings to explain climate change and climate risks in China to your students.
Each section contains relevant climate change information including data, projections, and visualizations. The data is visualized through interactive graphs and users can select different indices, model projections, timescales, and sectors to better understand the impacts of climate change in China.
Reading (15 min)
Use a reading by the World Health Organization (WHO) to stress to your students how climate change can impact human health in China. This factsheet (8 pages) titled Climate Change and Health: Country Profile: China includes information on climate hazard projections for China and current and future health risks of climate change in China. You could use this factsheet to help your students better understand what risks does climate change pose to human health in China with respect to infectious disease, undernutrition etc.
Classroom/Laboratory Activity(15 min)
You may wish to conduct an optional activity to further engage your students in understanding climate change in your country. You may ask your students to refer to the Climate Stories section. TROP ICSU can help your students search for climate stories from your region in the following categories:
You may carry out a student-led group discussion on climate impacts in your country and potential solutions to the climate crisis.
Use this Lesson Plan to help the students to understand and find answers to:
| 1 | Data Visualization; Climate Watch: Country China | Data Visualization: China’s Climate Progress from Climate Watch. This can be accessed at here |
| 2 | Infographic; GHG Emissions and Climate Risk China | Infographic: Environment and Global Climate Change sector in China, IDEA USAID. This can be accessed at here |
| 3 | Reading; ‘China’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC)’ | Document submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This can be accessed at here |
| 4 | Webpage; ‘INDCs as communicated by Parties*’ on UNFCCC’ | UNFCCC webpage for accessing the INDCs for various nations. This can be accessed at here |
| 5 | Teaching Modules; ‘Climate Change and Human Health Lesson Plans’ | Educational material by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). This can be accessed at here |
| 1 | Reading “The Causes of Climate Change” | by the NASA Global Climate Change website |
| 2 | A set of videos; “Climate Change: Lines of Evidence” | Presented by National Research Council, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
| 3 | Readings; “Climate Change Risk Profile- Southern Africa’ and ‘Climate Change Information Fact Sheet- China’ | By ClimateLinks:A Global Knowledge Portal for Climate and Development Practitioners, USAID. |
| 4 | Reading; “Climate and Health Country Profile- 2015: China” | By World Health Organization (WHO). |
| 5 | Additional Resources |
