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Geography · Grade 8

Climate Risk, Sustainability and Resilience

Learners examine the evidence that Earth's climate is changing — rising carbon dioxide, temperatures and seas and shrinking ice — and how the impacts differ from Arctic coasts to low-lying Pacific islands and great river deltas. They distinguish mitigation from adaptation, evaluate strategies such as the Netherlands' 'Room for the River', and use the three dimensions of sustainability to judge a city's climate plan.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 105 minutes
  • Climate and sustainability check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, pin a map, pick map regions, match pairs and type a number
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What learners will discover

  • Explain the enhanced greenhouse effect and interpret key evidence of recent climate change.
  • Describe regional impacts of climate change and explain why some places and people are more vulnerable.
  • Distinguish mitigation from adaptation and evaluate strategies of each kind.
  • Use environmental, social and economic sustainability to evaluate a resilience plan.

Lessons

  1. The evidence for a changing climate 6 steps4 practiceabout 26 min
  2. Impacts and vulnerability 6 steps4 practiceabout 26 min
  3. Mitigation and adaptation 6 steps4 practiceabout 26 min
  4. Sustainability and resilient plans 5 steps2 practiceabout 26 min
  5. Climate and sustainability check 10 questions at the end

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Games to practice with

  • Globe ExplorerSpin a real 3D globe, flip to the flat map, and find continents, oceans and countries.
  • Pin the PlanetDrag the pin onto wonders, cities and exact latitude and longitude points.
  • Route PlannerFind the shortest way around town, dodge closed roads, and measure trips with a scale bar.

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Guide for grown-ups