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 Italy.
This lesson plan provides an introduction to climate change, causes, and impacts of climate change globally, climate change risk profile for Italy 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 Italy 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 | Introduction to Climate Change, Climate Variability Record, Climate and Health, Climate Change and Food Security, Climate and Agriculture |
| Location | Europe, Italy |
| Language(s) | English |
| Access | Online |
| Approximate Time Required | 60 – 75 min |
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| 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 (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 Italy to your students.
B. You may wish to have your students explore climate change and its risks in Italy in more detail through a resource from the Climate Change Knowledge Portal of the World Bank.
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 Italy.
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 Italy . This factsheet (8 pages) titled Climate Change and Health: Country Profile: Italy includes information on climate hazard projections for Italy and current and future health risks of climate change in Italy . You could use this factsheet to help your students better understand what risks does climate change pose to human health in Italy 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 Italy | Data Visualization: Italy’s Climate Progress from Climate Watch. This can be accessed at here |
| 2 | Infographic; GHG Emissions and Climate Risk Italy | Infographic: Environment and Global Climate Change sector in Italy, IDEA USAID. This can be accessed at here |
| 3 | 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- Italy’ and ‘Climate Change Knowledge Portal- Italy’ | By World Bank Group |
| 4 | Reading; “Climate and Health Country Profile- 2015: Italy” | By World Health Organization (WHO). |
| 5 | Additional Resources |
| Grade Level | High school, Undergraduate |
| Climate Topic | Introduction to Climate Change, Climate Variability Record, Climate and Health, Climate Change and Food Security, Climate and Agriculture |
| Location | Europe, Italy |
| 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 (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 Italy to your students.
B. You may wish to have your students explore climate change and its risks in Italy in more detail through a resource from the Climate Change Knowledge Portal of the World Bank.
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 Italy.
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 Italy . This factsheet (8 pages) titled Climate Change and Health: Country Profile: Italy includes information on climate hazard projections for Italy and current and future health risks of climate change in Italy . You could use this factsheet to help your students better understand what risks does climate change pose to human health in Italy 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 Italy | Data Visualization: Italy’s Climate Progress from Climate Watch. This can be accessed at here |
| 2 | Infographic; GHG Emissions and Climate Risk Italy | Infographic: Environment and Global Climate Change sector in Italy, IDEA USAID. This can be accessed at here |
| 3 | 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- Italy’ and ‘Climate Change Knowledge Portal- Italy’ | By World Bank Group |
| 4 | Reading; “Climate and Health Country Profile- 2015: Italy” | By World Health Organization (WHO). |
| 5 | Additional Resources |
