Climate Change

Official YouTube account of UN Climate Change (2023)

This series of infographics and animations helps viewers understand and visualize the causes and effects of global climate change (National Geographic 2018).

English learning for curious minds by leonardoenglish.com This 22-minute episode focuses on the long and complicated history of climate change. for transcript and vocabulary you have to register. 

These lesson ideas challenge students to create and evaluate visual representations of climate change to more effectively interpret and share some of the world’s most critical information (USA: Pulitzer Center 2018).

Designed to take place over 21 days or class sessions, this technology-supported curriculum ʺfocuses on essential climate literacy principles with an emphasis on weather and climate, Earth system energy balance, greenhouse gases, paleoclimatology, and how human activities influence climate change.ʺ (USA: Lehigh University 2019)

Educational resources and tools can be browsed by topic, including: Climate Systems, Causes of Climate Change, Measuring & Modeling Climate, Climate Impacts, Human Responses to Climate, and Nature of Climate Science (NOAA Climate.gov, USA 2015) .

Students examine the impacts of climate change in the Pacific Islands and the ways local communities are responding to the challenges (PBS/USA 2014-20).

Students will explore the concept of the impacts of climate change in Bhutan, a country that is considered carbon negative, through a short video clip and discuss how the melting glaciers in the Himalayas can displace millions of people, ultimately affecting them personally (USA: PBS 2021).

Climate is the average pattern of weather over the long term. The earth's climate has warmed and cooled for millions of years, since long before we appeared on the scene. There's no doubt that the climate is growing warmer currently; indications of that change are all around us.