As a High School or UndergraduateEarth 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 Democratic Republic of Congo.
This lesson plan provides an introduction to climate change, causes and impacts of climate change globally, climate change risk profile for Democratic Republic of Congo 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 Democratic Republic of Congo 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.
Questions
Use this lesson plan to help your students find answers to:
What is climate change? What are the causes of global warming?
What are the global impacts of climate change?
What are the impacts of climate change in Democratic Republic of Congo?
How will increased temperatures impact Democratic Republic of Congo?
How will changing weather patterns including changes in precipitation, storms, droughts impact Democratic Republic of Congo in the future?
What are the current and future health risks due to climate change in Democratic Republic of Congo?
About Lesson Plan
Grade Level
High school, Undergraduate
Discipline
Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Geography
Topic(s) in Discipline
Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Change Risk Profile of Democratic Republic of Congo, Health Impacts of Climate Change
Climate Topic
Introduction to Climate Change, Climate Variability Record,
Climate and Health, Climate and Agriculture,
Climate Change and Food Security
Location
Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Language(s)
English
Access
Online
Approximate Time Required
60 – 75 min
Contents
Reading (15 min) and VideoMicro-Lectures (5-15 min)
A reading from the NASA Global Climate Change website that includes contains information about what is the scientific evidence for climate change, causes, and impacts of climate change. This can be accessed here.
Optional: A set of 7 short video micro-lectures (2-5 minutes in length) on climate change and global warming developed by the National Research Council, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. This can be accessed here.
Readings
(30 min)
A set of two readings to explain climate change and impacts in Democratic Republic of Congo.
Reading 1 by climatelinks: A Global Knowledge Portal for Climate and Development Practitioners USAID
Reading 2 by the Climate Change Knowledge Portal of the World Bank
Reading
(15 min)
A reading by the World Health Organization on how climate change can impact human health in the country.
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.
Introduction to Climate Change
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:
1. What is Climate? Climate Change, Lines of Evidence Chapter 1
2. Is Earth Warming? Climate Change, Lines of Evidence Chapter 2
3. Greenhouse Gases. Climate Change, Lines of Evidence Chapter 3
4. Increased Emissions. Climate Change, Lines of Evidence Chapter 4
5. How Much Warming? Climate Change, Lines of Evidence Chapter 5
6. Solar Influence. Climate Change, Lines of Evidence Chapter 6
7. Natural Cycles. Climate Change, Lines of Evidence Chapter 7
Readings ‘Climate Change in Democratic Republic of Congo'
Use the following readings to explain climate change and climate risks in Democratic Republic of Congo to your students.
A. First, use the factsheet Climate Change Risk Profile: Democratic Republic of Congo 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 Democratic Republic of Congo.
B. You may wish to have your students explore climate change and its risks in Democratic Republic of Congo in more detail through a resource from the Climate Change Knowledge Portal of the World Bank.
1. Overview
2. Climate Data -Historical and Future Projections
3. Climate by Sector – Agriculture, Energy, Water, Health
4. Vulnerability
5. Climate Impacts – Agriculture, Water, Sea Level Rise
6. Adaptation
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 Democratic Republic of Congo.
Reading: Climate Change and Human Health Impacts in Democratic Republic of Congo
Use a reading by climatelinks: A Global Knowledge Portal for Climate and Development Practitioners USAID to stress to your students how climate change can impact food security in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This factsheet (7 pages) titled Climate Risks in Food For Peace Geographies: Democratic Republic of Congo includes information on how climate change can impact the agricultural sector in the country. You could use this factsheet to help your students better understand climate stressors and climate risks in the agricultural sector such as increased crop losses/failure, increased livestock mortality, more pests, weeds, pathogens, and damage to limited transport networks in South Kivu and parts of Kasai and Tanganyka and other regions in the country.
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