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 Peru.
This lesson plan provides an introduction to climate change, causes and impacts of climate change globally, climate change risk profile for Peru 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 Peru 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 Peru?
- How will increased temperatures impact Peru?
- How will changing weather patterns including changes in precipitation, storms, droughts impact Peru in the future?
- What are the current and future health risks due to climate change in Peru?
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 Peru 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 | South America, Peru |
| Language(s) | English |
| Access | Online |
| Approximate Time Required |
60 – 75 min |
Contents
| Reading (15 min) and Video Micro-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. |
| Reading
(30 min) |
A set of two readings to explain climate change and impacts in Peru:
Reading 1 by climatelinks: A Global Knowledge Portal for Climate and Development Practitioners USAID. This can be accessed in English here and in Spanish here. Reading 2 by the Climate Change Knowledge Portal of the World Bank. This can be accessed here. |
| Reading
(15 min) |
A reading by the World Health Organization on how climate change can impact human health in Peru.
This can be accessed here. |
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.
This can be accessed here. 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: This video playlist can be accessed here. |
| Readings ‘Climate Change in Peru’ | Use the following readings to explain climate change and climate risks in Peru to your students.
A. First, use the factsheet Climate Change Risk Profile: Peru 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 Peru. This resource can be accessed in English and in Spanish. B. You may wish to have your students explore climate change and its risks in Peru in more detail through a resource from the Climate Change Knowledge Portal of the World Bank. This resource can be accessed here. This resource contains information specific to Peru and includes the following sections: 1. Overview 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 Peru. |
| Reading: Climate Change and Human Health Impacts in Peru | Use a reading by the World Health Organization (WHO) to stress to your students how climate change can impact human health in Peru. This factsheet (8 pages) titled Climate Change and Health: Country Profile: Peru includes information on climate hazard projections for Peru and current and future health risks of climate change in Peru. You could use this factsheet to help your students better understand what risks does climate change poses to human health in Peru with respect to infectious disease, undernutrition etc.
This resource can be accessed here. |
The tools in this lesson plan will enable students to:
- learn about climate change and global warming
- understand the impacts of climate change in Peru
- discuss how changing weather patterns due to climate change could affect Peru’s future
- describe the current and future health risks in Peru due to climate change
Suggested questions/assignments for learning evaluation :
- 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 Peru?
- How will increased temperatures impact Peru?
- How will changing weather patterns including changes in precipitation, storms, droughts impact Peruin the future?
- What are the current and future health risks due to climate change in Peru?
If you or your students would like to explore the topic further, these additional resources will be useful.
| 1 | Webpage ‘Peru’ on Climatelinks | Climate Change in Peru specific factsheets, case studies compiled by Climatelinks, USAID |
| 2 | Reading | ‘Peru’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) : Document submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) |
| 3 | Webpage | ‘INDCs as communicated by Parties*’ on UNFCCC: UNFCCC webpage for accessing the INDCs for various nations |
| 4 | Teaching Modules | ‘Climate Change and Human Health Lesson Plans’: Educational material by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) |
| 5 | Reading; Climate Change and Conflict in Peru | Report ‘Climate Change and Conflict in Africa and Latin America: Findings and Preliminary Lessons from Uganda, Ethiopia, and Peru’ USAID |
| 6 | Reading, Climate Change and Gender in Peru | Report ‘Peru Climate Change Gender Action Plan (ccGAP)’ USAID |
Credits and copyrights
| 1 | Reading “The Causes of Climate Change” | By NASA’s 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- Peru’ and ‘Climate Change Information Fact Sheet- Peru’ | By Climatelinks: A Global Knowledge Portal for Climate and Development Practitioners, USAID |
| 4 | Reading “Climate and Health Country Profile- 2015: Peru” | By World Health Organization (WHO) |
| 5 | Additional Resources | Climatelinks, USAID |
| 6 | Images | Climate Change Knowledge Portal By World Bank Group |