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 United Kingdom.
This lesson plan provides an introduction to climate change, causes, and impacts of climate change globally, climate change risk profile for United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom 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.
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 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 United Kingdom to your students.
This resource contains the information specific to United Kingdom and includes the following sections:
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 United Kingdom .
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 United Kingdom . This factsheet (8 pages) titled Climate Change and Health: Country Profile: United Kingdom includes information on climate hazard projections for United Kingdom and current and future health risks of climate change in United Kingdom . You could use this factsheet to help your students better understand what risks does climate change pose to human health in United Kingdom with respect to infectious disease, undernutrition etc.
Classroom/Lab oratory Activity(15 min)
Use the tools and the concepts learned so far to discuss and determine answers to the following questions:
Use this Lesson Plan to help the students to understand and find answers to:
Additional Resources
| 1 | Data Visualization; Climate Watch: Country United Kingdom | Data Visualization: United Kingdom’s Climate Progress from Climate Watch. This can be accessed at here |
| 2 | Infographic; GHG Emissions and Climate Risk United Kingdom ’ | Infographic: Environment and Global Climate Change sector in United Kingdom, 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 |
Credits / Copyrights
| 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- United Kingdom” | By Climatelinks: A Global Knowledge Portal for Climate and Development Practitioners, USAID. |
| 4 | Reading; “Climate and Health Country Profile- 2015: United Kingdom” | By World Health Organization (WHO). |
| 5 | Additional Resources | Climatelinks, USAID UNFCCC NIEHS |
(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 United Kingdom to your students.
This resource contains the information specific to United Kingdom and includes the following sections:
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 United Kingdom .
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 United Kingdom . This factsheet (8 pages) titled Climate Change and Health: Country Profile: United Kingdom includes information on climate hazard projections for United Kingdom and current and future health risks of climate change in United Kingdom . You could use this factsheet to help your students better understand what risks does climate change pose to human health in United Kingdom with respect to infectious disease, undernutrition etc.
Classroom/Lab oratory Activity(15 min)
Use the tools and the concepts learned so far to discuss and determine answers to the following questions:
Use this Lesson Plan to help the students to understand and find answers to:
(If you or your students would like to explore the topic further, these additional resources will be useful.)
| 1 | Data Visualization; Climate Watch: Country United Kingdom | Data Visualization: United Kingdom’s Climate Progress from Climate Watch. This can be accessed at here |
| 2 | Infographic; GHG Emissions and Climate Risk United Kingdom ’ | Infographic: Environment and Global Climate Change sector in United Kingdom, 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 |
Credits and copyrights
| 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- United Kingdom” | By Climatelinks: A Global Knowledge Portal for Climate and Development Practitioners, USAID. |
| 4 | Reading; “Climate and Health Country Profile- 2015: United Kingdom” | By World Health Organization (WHO). |
| 5 | Additional Resources | Climatelinks, USAID UNFCCC NIEHS |
