Climate Change Education Across the Curricula, Across the Globe

Climate Change Education Across the Curricula

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Lesson Plan: Pond Ecosystems and Climate Change

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As an Undergraduate Biological Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to enable students to develop a comprehensive understanding about the structure and function of an ecosystem, with a focus on hydrological ecosystem, and biotic and abiotic components of the ecosystem. You can do this through a study of ponds and pond ecosystems and its comparison with freshwater and saline water ecosystems.

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Lesson Plan: Climate Impacts on the Silkworm Life Cycle

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As an Undergraduate teacher of Biological Sciences or Agricultural Sciences, you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach about mulberry silkworm rearing, silk production, and the economic impact of climate change on the sericulture industry. This lesson plan will allow you to teach about the life cycle of the mulberry silkworm, Bombyx mori and their artificial rearing for commercial silk production and its management.

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Lesson Plan: Demography and Pandemics in a Warming World

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As an Undergraduate Social Sciences or Biological Sciences teacher, you can use this lesson plan to teach your students about demography, population trends, urbanization, and the role of demographics in the spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and the increased risk of pandemics due to climate change.

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Lesson Plan: Impact of Climate Change on Circadian Rhythms and Sleep

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As a High School Biological Sciences or Environmental Sciences or Health Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach about circadian rhythms and the factors involved in maintaining the circadian rhythm in all living organisms.  This lesson plan will discuss the impact of global warming on sleep in humans, which is as an integral part of their circadian rhythm.

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Lesson Plan: Ecological Niches and Biogeography: Mountain Gorillas, Bamboo and Climate

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As an Undergraduate Environmental Sciences or Biological Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach about ecological niches- their characteristics and the factors that affect them- and the biogeography of a species. More specifically, this lesson plan will teach your students about the implications of climate-induced disturbed ecosystems on the ecological niches and the biogeographical distribution of Mountain Gorillas; and about the scientific strategies employed to prevent this and thereby, aid in their conservation.

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Lesson Plan: Photosynthetic Pathways and Physiological Responses to Climate Change

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As an undergraduate Biological Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach about differences in photosynthesis in different types of plants (C3, C4 and CAM) and how they are affected by climate change: which is more resilient or less resilient. You can discuss all these basic concepts in plant physiology using the case study: Uganda’s massive expansion of Bamboo, a C3 plant, to address the issue of heavy deforestation, under changing climatic conditions.

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