Teaching module of resources and activities that accompanies ‘The Teacher-Friendly Guide™ to Climate Change’ edited by Ingrid H. H. Zabel, Don Duggan-Haas, & Robert M. Ross,the Paleontological Research Institution. This teaching module includes videos and classroom/laboratory activities on the following topics

1. Societal causes of climate change
   1. Causes identified in the “green” updating of Classical Theory
   2. Causes identified in the contemporary Environmental Sociology
2.  Climate impact on society
   1. Extreme weather events
   2.  Food
   3.  Water
   4. Health and Illness
   5. Economic impacts, at the level of the nation (U.S)
   6.  Political impacts
   7. Unequal impacts, globally, among nations
   8. Unequal impacts, in the U.S., by State and by region
   9. Unequal impacts, in the U.S., by race and class
   10. The potential for catastrophic impacts
3. Societal responses to climate change
   1. The science; discovery; communicating; activism
   2. Climate activism, the social movements
   3. Climate denial, the counter-movement
   4. Private sector actors, pro and con
   5. Non-environmental “civil society” actors, pro and con
   6. Traditional media-print (newspapers), network television
   7. Online media- websites, blogs, social media
   8. Public opinion
   9. Policy- international; other nations
   10. Policy- federal (US)
   11. Policy- State, local (US)
   12. Technological innovation (clean, renewable energy); green cities
   13. “Plan B”: geoengineering

Students will understand the importance of the Social Sciences and the discipline of Sociology in understanding climate change.