03.18.24 Addressing Climate Change

03.18.24 Addressing Climate Change

Do Now: In what ways can we as individuals address climate change in our daily lives? What can countries do to address climate change? (be prepared to answer on the next slide)

Open Ended

Do Now: In what ways can we as individuals address climate change in our daily lives? What can countries do to address climate change?

​SWBAT identify leaders in the race to address climate change.

SWBAT evaluate effective methods of how to address climate change.

Objectives

Climate change includes rising temperatures due to global warming, and other long-term changes in our climate that may come with it.

Impacts

• Warmer air means warmer oceans. Warmer oceans make stronger hurricanes.

• Less rain is predicted for some areas. That could lead to droughts, which would mean less water for people to drink and to grow food.

• Drier conditions can also lead to more forest fires.

• Melting glaciers and warmer water could raise sea level, flooding coasts. Wildlife that is adapted to a certain habitat may not be able to survive as the habitat changes.

Word Cloud

Make a prediction: What countries do you think are doing the best to address climate change?

Turn and Talk with a partner about the following prompt:

Why did you choose this country? Have you heard anything in the news about them? Have you been there before?

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​Identify the 3 countries that are the most successful at addressing climate change.

Choose 1 country and summarize 2 policies or strategies that they are doing.

Visit this link to read an article on the 3 Leading Countries in Climate Policy (https://earth.org/countries-climate-policy/#:~:text=Denmark%2C%20Sweden%2C%20and%20Chile%20are,from%20their%20climate%20policy%20strategies.) and be prepared to complete the following on the next slide:

Open Ended

Visit this link to read an article on the 3 Leading Countries in Climate Policy (https://earth.org/countries-climate-policy/#:~:text=Denmark%2C%20Sweden%2C%20and%20Chile%20are,from%20their%20climate%20policy%20strategies.) and complete the following:

Identify the 3 countries that are the most successful at addressing climate change.

Choose 1 country and summarize 2 policies or strategies that they are doing.

Multiple Choice

The main human activity that releases greenhouse gases is

• riding bicycles

• burning fossil fuels

• texting on cellphones

• eating meat

​/ use electric or hybrid cars

​/ use alternative energy resources

​And advocate for corporations and governments to do the same

Multiple Choice

Possible human solutions for limiting global warming and climate change are...

• being more energy-efficient

• using renewable sources of energy

• removing carbon from fossil fuel emissions

• all of the above

Just How Wasteful is the United States?

Multiple Choice

How much food that is produced doesn't get eaten in America?

• 10%

• 20%

• 30%

• 40% of all food!

Multiple Choice

How many straws are thrown out in the US each day?

• 20 million

• 200 thousand

• 200 million

• 2 million

Multiple Choice

How long does it take styrofoam to break down?

• 1 week

• 2 years

• 500 years

• It never fully breaks down!

Multiple Choice

How many pounds of trash a day does the average American throw out?

• 0.5 pounds per day

• 1.8 pounds per day

• 8.2 pounds per day

• 500 pounds per day

Open Ended

Exit Ticket: What is one strategy that you believe could be implemented in Indianapolis/the United States to help address climate change?