Climate Change Education Across the Curricula, Across the Globe
Climate Change Education Across the Curricula
A classroom/laboratory activity that introduces the relationship between climate and the cryosphere, explains how sea-level rise can be predicted (based on average global temperature change), and triggers a discussion on the potential impacts of sea-level rise.
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An interactive visualization to explore the effects of melting ice sheets and the resulting sea level rise on coastal areas.
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A classroom/laboratory activity to learn about the rate of sea-level rise and the response of shorelines to sea-level change.
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An interactive visualization to observe and understand the possible effects of sea-level rise and different storm scenarios on the coast of California.
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A reading to learn about recent changes in hurricane activity, specifically in the Atlantic.
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A reading to learn about what affect hurricane activity and the measures that can help in building resilience to the impacts of hurricanes.
An interactive visualization to observe the effects of a global temperature increase of 4 °C on human health, agriculture, forests, oceans and marine ecosystems, permafrost, water availability, and extreme climate events.
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A classroom/laboratory activity to learn about linear slope, trends, confidence intervals, and Student’s t-distribution by calculating trends and uncertainties using hurricane data records over 40 years.
A video lecture titled ‘The Ancient Maya Response to Climate Change: A Cautionary Tale’ by B.L Turner II, Arizona State University, on the archaeology and geography of climate change during the Maya Civilization. The lecture discusses the depopulation and decline of the ancient civilization, during the tenth and eleventh centuries, potentially due to climate change. It includes discussions on the “millennial long wave” of population growth and decline that indicates the flourishing of a civilization and its subsequent decline. Turner further discusses the dependence of the Maya people on the land and how climate change could have led to environmental degradation and agrarian collapse. Through the use of geographic and climate data, the lecture draws a timeline for the rise and collapse of the Maya civilization, changes in societal structures and functioning, and efforts to adapt to environmental and climate change.
Students will learn about how climate changes could have contributed to the decline of the Maya civilization. They will also learn about the relationship of people, land and the environment and the rise and fall of their societal and economic structures. Additionally, they will learn about concepts like “environmental determinism”.
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About the tool
| Tool Name | The Ancient Maya Response to Climate Change: A Cautionary Tale |
| Discipline | Social Sciences, Environmental Sciences |
| Topic(s) in Discipline | Archaeology, History, Maya Civilization, Environmental Determinism, Agrarian, Land use Land cover, |
| Climate Topic | Climate and Society, Climate and the Anthroposphere, Disasters and Hazards |
| Type of tool | Video (50 mins) |
| Grade Level | Undergraduate, Graduate |
| Location | Global |
| Language | English |
| Translation | |
| Developed by | The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture |
| Hosted at | YouTube |
| Link | Link |
| Access | Online |
| Computer Skills | Basic |
A teaching module to introduce the impact of climate change on water systems and the resulting effects on human society.
