Social Sciences Lesson Plan – Climate Change Education Across the Curricula, Across the Globe

23Oct

Lesson Plan: Climate Change and Risks of New Pandemics

Posted by TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curriculaon October 23, 2020October 23, 2020in Lesson Plan

As an Undergraduate Biological Sciences or Environmental Sciences teacher, you can use this lesson plan to teach your students about zoonosis, the increased risk of inter-species virus spillover due to climate change, infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and their modes of transmission.

22Oct

Lesson Plan: Demography and Pandemics in a Warming World

Posted by TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curriculaon October 22, 2020October 23, 2020in Lesson Plan

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.

09Oct

Lesson Plan: The Locust Plague, Food Insecurity, and Climate Change

Posted by TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curriculaon October 9, 2020October 9, 2020in Lesson Plan

As a High School or Undergraduate teacher in Environmental Sciences, Social Sciences, or Agricultural Sciences, you can use this lesson plan to teach your students about the desert locust outbreaks of 2019-2020, how it may be causing food insecurity in some countries, and the link between the current locust outbreak with unusual weather and climate conditions.

03Oct

Lesson Plan: Climate Change Impacts on Mental Health

Posted by TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curriculaon October 3, 2020October 14, 2020in Lesson Plan

As an Undergraduate teacher of Psychology in the Social Sciences you can use this lesson plan to teach your students impacts of climate change on mental health and well-being.

01Oct

Lesson Plan: Teaching Climate Change through Rap

Posted by TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curriculaon October 1, 2020October 14, 2020in Lesson Plan

As a High School or Undergraduate teacher in the Humanities, the Social Sciences, Earth Sciences, or Environmental Sciences, you can use this lesson plan to teach your students about climate change and global warming through Hip-Hop.

11Sep

Lesson Plan: Gender and Climate Change

Posted by TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curriculaon September 11, 2020September 11, 2020in Lesson Plan

As an Undergraduate teacher in the Social Sciences, you can use this lesson plan to teach your students about the gender dimensions in the field of climate change.

11Sep

Lesson Plan: Why Do Our Brains Ignore Climate Change

Posted by TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curriculaon September 11, 2020September 11, 2020in Lesson Plan

As an Undergraduate teacher of Psychology in the Social Sciences you can use this lesson plan to teach your students aspects of behavioural science, explain why our brains are wired to ignore climate change, and discuss potential behavioural science solutions to the climate crisis.

06Sep

Lesson Plan: War in A Warming World

Posted by TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curriculaon September 6, 2020October 6, 2020in Lesson Plan

As an Undergraduate teacher in the Social Sciences or Environmental Studies, you can use this lesson plan to teach your students about how human induced global warming can have significant impacts on food and water security and could be a factor contributing to mass human migrations, lead to political instability, and even war.

20Jul

Lesson Plan: Marxist Theories and Climate Change

Posted by TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curriculaon July 20, 2020July 20, 2020in Lesson Plan

As an Undergraduate Economics or Social Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching social theories in Marxism.

26Jun

Lesson Plan: Anthropogenic Environmental Changes and Climate

Posted by TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curriculaon June 26, 2020June 26, 2020in Lesson Plan

As a high school Geography, Humanities or Social Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching about human-induced (anthropogenic) environmental changes that challenge sustainability and could be responsible for global climate change.

09Oct

Lesson Plan: Teaching about the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Posted by TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curriculaon October 9, 2019October 12, 2019in Lesson Plan

As a High School or Undergraduate Economics or Social Sciences teacher, you can use this lesson plan to teach about the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as outlined by the United Nations for nations to adopt and work towards, for a sustainable future.

26Sep

Lesson Plan: Civilizations and Climate Vulnerability: The Khmer Empire

Posted by TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curriculaon September 26, 2019November 29, 2019in Lesson Plan

As a High School or Undergraduate teacher of History or Social Sciences, you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach about civilizations, decline of civilizations or empires, and societal vulnerability to climate-related extreme events.

23Jul

Lesson Plan: Agrarian Civilizations: Agriculture in the Nile Basin

Posted by TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curriculaon July 23, 2019November 29, 2019in Lesson Plan

As a High School History or Economics or Agriculture 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 with agriculture, the latter being important for present day Egyptian economy also and is now threatened by climate change.

14Jun

Lesson Plan: Climate Consciousness in the National Constitution: Bhutan at the Forefront

Posted by TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curriculaon June 14, 2019November 29, 2019in Lesson Plan

As a Humanities or Social Sciences high school or undergraduate teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach about the Constitution of a country, the components of a nation’s Constitution, and the recognition that climate change is a fundamental constitutional issue for certain nations. This lesson plan uses the Constitution of Bhutan as an example.

13Jun

Lesson Plan: Capitalism and Climate Change

Posted by TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curriculaon June 13, 2019November 2, 2021in Lesson Plan

As an undergraduate Social Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching about Capitalism, Capitalist Modes of Production, History of Capitalism, Consumerism, Materials Economy and its effect on climate change.

03May

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Lesson Plan: Poverty and Climate: An Inextricable Link

Posted by TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curriculaon May 3, 2019November 29, 2019in Lesson Plan1 Comment

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.

09Apr

Lesson Plan: Stress and Coping with Climate Change

Posted by TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curriculaon April 9, 2019November 29, 2019in Lesson Plan

As an undergraduate Psychology teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach Stress and Coping. This lesson plan will help students to learn about stress: its nature, its causes, and its consequences for individuals. Students will also view and discuss a resource that reports on the impact of climate change—as a causative factor of stress—on the lives of people globally.

05Jul

Lesson Plan: Teaching “Climate Change and Food Security” and “Climate Change and Agriculture”

Posted by TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curriculaon July 5, 2018November 29, 2019in Lesson Plan

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.

21Jun

Lesson Plan: Climate Refugees and Environmental Migration

Posted by TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curriculaon June 21, 2018March 12, 2020in Lesson Plan

As a high school or undergraduate Social Sciences, Humanities, or Environmental Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching about topics such as Social and Environmental Policy, Climate Change and Human Migration, Climate Refugees/Environmental Migrants, and Climate Justice.

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