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 China.
This lesson plan provides an introduction to climate change, causes and impacts of climate change globally, climate change risk profile for China that includes climate impacts on major sectors of the country such as agriculture, water resources, human health, and energy. This lesson plan also includes the current and future health risks in China 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.
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 China?
How will increased temperatures impact China?
How will changing weather patterns including changes in temperature, precipitation, storms, droughts impact China in the future?
What are the current and future health risks due to climate change in China?
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 China,
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
Asia, China
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.
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.
Reading
(30 min)
A reading by the Climate Change Knowledge Portal of the World Bank to explain climate change and impacts in China.
Reading
(15 min)
A reading by the World Health Organization on how climate change can impact human health in China
Step-by-Step User Guide
Learning Outcomes
Questions/Assignments
Additional Resources
Credits
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
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 China.
Reading: Climate Change and Human Health Impacts in China
Use a reading by the World Health Organization (WHO) to stress to your students how climate change can impact human health in China. This factsheet (8 pages) titled Climate Change and Health: Country Profile: China includes information on climate hazard projections for China and current and future health risks of climate change in China. You could use this factsheet to help your students better understand what risks does climate change poses to human health in China with respect to infectious disease, undernutrition etc.
