Feeding The Planet

Feeding The Planet Audio An audio podcast by Jason Fields for the World Bank titled ‘Table for 10 Billion Podcast: How can the world feed itself as the planet heats up? that discusses the link between human-induced climate change and agriculture. This resource can be used as an introduction to the topic by teachers interested […]

Teaching “Climate Change and Food Security” and “Climate Change and Agriculture”

Teaching “Climate Change and Food Security” and “Climate Change and Agriculture” Overview As a high school or undergraduate Social Sciences or Environmental Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching topics such as Food Security, Agriculture, Climate Change and Food Security, and    Climate Change and Agriculture. This […]

Polynomial and Logistic Differentiation using Global Wind Energy Production Data

Polynomial and Logistic Differentiation using Global Wind Energy Production Data Overview As a high school or undergraduate Mathematics teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching introductory differential calculus and specifically about polynomial and logistic differentiation and the use of the Quotient (or Product) Rule. This lesson plan will allow you to teach polynomial and logistic differentiation using […]

Logistic and Exponential Differentiation using Solar Energy Data

Logistic and Exponential Differentiation using Solar Energy Data Overview As a high school or undergraduate Mathematics teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching introductory differential calculus; specifically, about differentiating logistic and exponential functions and the use of the Quotient (or Product) Rule. This lesson plan will allow you to teach differentiating functions- logistic and exponential, using a […]

Algebra: Formula Substitution using the Wind Energy Equation

Algebra: Formula Substitution using the Wind Turbine Energy Equation Overview As a high school Mathematics teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching Formula Substitution in algebra after introducing formulas, numbers, variables, and constants. Global warming due to fossil fuel emissions, is believed to be one of the causes […]

Poverty and Climate: An Inextricable Link

Poverty and Climate: An Inextricable Link Overview Overview As a High School or Undergraduate Economics or Social Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching about poverty, the impact of climate change on global poverty and the ways to manage it in the current and future scenarios. This […]

Carbon Pricing: Shadow and Market Prices

Impact of Climate Change on Carbon Pricing: Shadow and Market Prices Overview As an undergraduate Economics teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach the concept of Carbon Pricing and the instruments to implement it- Carbon Tax and Cap-and-Trade/Emissions Trading System (ETS). This lesson plan includes a resource to help students understand […]

Agrarian Civilizations: Agriculture in the Nile Basin

Impact of Climate Change on Agrarian Civilizations: Agriculture in the Nile Basin Overview As a High School History or Economics or Agricultural Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach about the rise of agriculture and the concomitant rise of agrarian societies/civilizations. This lesson plan will show how Egyptian Civilization thrived […]

Environmental Economics: Cap-and-Trade

Environmental Economics: Cap-and-Trade Overview As an Undergraduate Economics teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching climate mitigation environmental policies and specifically about the cap-and-trade system. This lesson plan allows you to teach about economic policy responses to climate change. This lesson plan includes resources to explain various policy […]

Teaching Opportunity Costs of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Teaching Opportunity Costs of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Overview Overview As an Undergraduate Economics teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching about opportunity costs using an in-class experiment of trading emissions permits for the use of a hypothetical fuel that emits greenhouse gases. Global warming due to greenhouse gas […]