An Introductory Lesson Plan for Undergraduate Teachers

Climate Change: An Introductory Lesson Plan for Undergraduate Teachers Overview As an undergraduate teacher, you can use this lesson plan to introduce climate change and its impacts to your students. In this lesson plan, students will be introduced to the basics of climate change, which is one of the most significant issues of our time. […]

Climate Change Impacts on Secondary Metabolites of Plants

Climate Change Impacts on Secondary Metabolites of Plants Overview As an Undergraduate Biological Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer based tools to enable students in developing a comprehensive understanding about the core topics of plant pathology, mycology, plant response to biotic stress and medicinal botany. Plants being immobile, synthesize a diversity of […]

Plastic Rain

Plastic Rain Overview As a High School or introductory Undergraduate Environmental Sciences or Chemistry teacher, you can use these computer based tools to teach about environmental pollutants like airborne microplastics and their impact on Earth’s climate. This lesson plan examines environmental pollutants like microplastics, their sources, their environmental impacts, impact on human health and how […]

Carbon Sequestration in Trees

Carbon Sequestration in Trees Overview As a high school or introductory undergraduate Ecology or Biological Sciences or Environmental Sciences or Earth Sciences teacher, you can use this lesson plan to explain carbon content of trees, carbon sequestration, and their direct and indirect impact on climate mitigation and adaptation. In this lesson plan, students will be […]

Breathless Oceans: Impact of Climate Change on Dissolved Oxygen

Breathless Oceans: Impact of Climate Change on Dissolved Oxygen Overview As a high school or introductory undergraduate Chemistry or Environmental Sciences teacher, you can use these computer based tools to teach a practical component of environmental chemistry paper i.e. the determination of dissolved oxygen in the given sample of water. In this lesson plan, students […]

The Art of Storytelling

The Art of Storytelling Audio An audio conversation between storyteller and performing artist, Jo Blake and storyteller and art therapist, Sarah Deco on the relationship between mythologies and climate change narratives. This podcast focuses on how climate narratives can affect individual action and behaviour. Students will be introduced to how ancient myths psychologically affect us […]

Erosion of State Sovereignty

Erosion of State Sovereignty Reading A reading titled ‘Climate Change, the Erosion of State Sovereignty, and World Order’ by Francesco Femia and Caitlin E. Werell that discusses how climate change can potentially stress natural resources and its effect on state stability and sovereignty. The reading discusses different threats to state sovereignty and potential causes of […]

Did Drought cause the Syrian Civil War?

Did Drought cause the Syrian Civil War? Video A short video from the Yale Climate Communications series titled ‘Drought, Water, War, and Climate Change’ on climate change as a catalyst for crises. The video discusses how climate change potentially contributed to the drought in Syria causing large scale human migration, poverty, political instability and, possibly, […]

Human Cognition and Climate Denial

Human Cognition and Climate Denial Video A video titled ‘Cognition of Climate Change Denial’ by Stephen Lewandowsky, University of Western Australia, that explains how human cognition processes and responds to climate change. The video discusses different psychological and cognitive factors, perceptions, attitudes, and individual political beliefs that influence the way people address the issue of […]

The Wiring of Our Brain

The Wiring of Our Brain Video A video titled ‘Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains are Wired to Ignore Climate Change’ by George Marshall, author and founder of Climate Outreach and Information Network, that focuses on how the human brain is wired to ignore climate change even though it is such a critical […]