Exploring Climate Change: A Global Challenge

• Geography
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

What is Climate Change?

Climate change refers to significant and long-term changes in the Earth's weather patterns and average temperatures, resulting from human activities and natural processes.

Exploring Climate Change: A Global Challenge

Learning Objective

Understand the causes and impacts of climate change and explore potential solutions.

What do you already know about climate change?

Causes of Climate Change

Factors contributing to climate change include the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, industrial processes, and agricultural practices that release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Impacts of Climate Change

Climate change leads to rising global temperatures, extreme weather events, melting ice caps, sea level rise, and disruptions to ecosystems, agriculture, and human societies.

Global Efforts to Address Climate Change

International agreements such as the Paris Agreement aim to limit global warming and mitigate the impacts of climate change by setting targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Solutions to Climate Change

Solutions include transitioning to renewable energy sources, promoting energy efficiency, adopting sustainable land use practices, and implementing policies to reduce emissions.

Climate Change and Society

Climate change poses challenges for food security, water resources, public health, and economic stability, affecting vulnerable populations the most.

Taking Action

Individuals can take action by conserving energy, reducing waste, supporting sustainable practices, advocating for policy changes, and raising awareness about climate change.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.