In this New York Times lesson, students use the Times’s series Carbon’s Casualties to learn about how climate change is displacing people around the world. They then practice the important skill of explaining the science to a skeptical public that sometimes doubts what it doesn’t see with its own eyes (2017).

Students will: Describe the purpose of a price index. Explain how a price index is calculated. Describe the weaknesses of the CPI. Interpret CPI data as a measure of economic health. Identify who is harmed and who is helped by inflation. (EconEd 2002-2009)