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 Ethiopia.
This lesson plan provides an introduction to climate change, causes, and impacts of climate change globally, climate change risk profile for Ethiopia that includes climate impacts on major sectors of the country such as agriculture, water resources, human health, ecosystems, energy, infrastructure, and disasters. This lesson plan also includes the current and future health risks in Ethiopia 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:
| Grade Level | High school, Undergraduate |
| Climate Topic | Climate Change Impacts in Your Country |
| Location | Africa, Ethiopia |
| Language(s) | English |
| Access | Online |
| Approximate Time Required | 60 – 75 min |
| Share | |
| Resource Download |
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 mins)
Use the following readings to explain climate change and climate risks in Ethiopia to your students.
A. First, use the factsheet Climate Change Risk Profile: Ethiopia from climatelinks: A Global Knowledge Portal for Climate and Development Practitioners USAID. This factsheet (5 pages) includes the climate summary, historical and future climate, impacts on major sectors such as agriculture, water resources, human health, ecosystems, energy, infrastructure, and disasters, for Ethiopia.
B. You may wish to have your students explore climate change and its risks in Ethiopia in more detail through a resource from the Climate Change Knowledge Portal of the World Bank.
This resource contains the information specific to Ethiopia and includes the following sections:
Reading (15 mins)
Use a reading by the World Health Organization (WHO) to stress to your students how climate change can impact human health in Ethiopia. This factsheet (8 pages) titled Climate Change and Health: Country Profile: Ethiopia includes information on climate hazard projections for Ethiopia and current and future health risks of climate change in Ethiopia. You could use this factsheet to help your students better understand what risks does climate change pose to human health in Ethiopia 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 your students find answers to:
| 1 | Webpage; ‘Ethiopia’ on Climatelinks | Climate Change in Ethiopia specific factsheets, case studies compiled by Climatelinks, USAID.
This can be accessed here. |
| 2 | Reading; ‘Ethiopia’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC)’ | Document submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
This can be accessed here |
| 3 | Webpage; ‘INDCs as communicated by Parties*’ on UNFCCC | UNFCCC webpage for accessing the INDCs for various nations.
This can be accessed here. |
| 4 | Teaching Modules; ‘Climate Change and Human Health Lesson Plans’ | Educational material by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).
This can be accessed here. |
| 5 | Reading; Climate Change and Conflict in Pastoralist Regions of Ethiopia | Technical Report ‘Climate Change and Conflict in Pastoralist Regions of Ethiopia’ USAID
This can be accessed here. |
| 1 | Reading; “The Causes of Climate Change” | By NASA’s 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- Ethiopia’ and ‘Climate Change Knowledge Portal- Ethiopia’ | By Climatelinks: A Global Knowledge Portal for Climate and Development Practitioners, USAID. |
| 4 | Reading; “Climate and Health Country Profile- 2015: Ethiopia” | By World Health Organization (WHO). |
| 5 | Additional Resources |
| Grade Level | High school, Undergraduate |
| Climate Topic | Climate Change Impacts in Your Country |
| Location | Africa, Ethiopia |
| Language(s) | English |
| Access | Online |
| Approximate Time Required | 60 – 75 min |
| Share | |
| Resource Download |
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 mins)
Use the following readings to explain climate change and climate risks in Ethiopia to your students.
A. First, use the factsheet Climate Change Risk Profile: Ethiopia from climatelinks: A Global Knowledge Portal for Climate and Development Practitioners USAID. This factsheet (5 pages) includes the climate summary, historical and future climate, impacts on major sectors such as agriculture, water resources, human health, ecosystems, energy, infrastructure, and disasters, for Ethiopia.
B. You may wish to have your students explore climate change and its risks in Ethiopia in more detail through a resource from the Climate Change Knowledge Portal of the World Bank.
This resource contains the information specific to Ethiopia and includes the following sections:
Reading (15 mins)
Use a reading by the World Health Organization (WHO) to stress to your students how climate change can impact human health in Ethiopia. This factsheet (8 pages) titled Climate Change and Health: Country Profile: Ethiopia includes information on climate hazard projections for Ethiopia and current and future health risks of climate change in Ethiopia. You could use this factsheet to help your students better understand what risks does climate change pose to human health in Ethiopia 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 your students find answers to:
| 1 | Webpage; ‘Ethiopia’ on Climatelinks | Climate Change in Ethiopia specific factsheets, case studies compiled by Climatelinks, USAID.
This can be accessed here. |
| 2 | Reading; ‘Ethiopia’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC)’ | Document submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
This can be accessed here |
| 3 | Webpage; ‘INDCs as communicated by Parties*’ on UNFCCC | UNFCCC webpage for accessing the INDCs for various nations.
This can be accessed here. |
| 4 | Teaching Modules; ‘Climate Change and Human Health Lesson Plans’ | Educational material by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).
This can be accessed here. |
| 5 | Reading; Climate Change and Conflict in Pastoralist Regions of Ethiopia | Technical Report ‘Climate Change and Conflict in Pastoralist Regions of Ethiopia’ USAID
This can be accessed here. |
| 1 | Reading; “The Causes of Climate Change” | By NASA’s 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- Ethiopia’ and ‘Climate Change Knowledge Portal- Ethiopia’ | By Climatelinks: A Global Knowledge Portal for Climate and Development Practitioners, USAID. |
| 4 | Reading; “Climate and Health Country Profile- 2015: Ethiopia” | By World Health Organization (WHO). |
| 5 | Additional Resources |
