Exploring climate impacts - lesson plan
Discover how climate change is affecting people around the world (for ages 7-11)
This lesson explores climate change and its impacts around the world. Your pupils will step into the shoes of people in other countries, finding out about their ways of life and how climate change is having an impact today, and into the future.
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- Describe the difference between weather and climate
- Share their understanding of climate change and its impacts
- Apply their knowledge to make a creative response, based on their understanding of the impacts of climate change on different communities around the world
Curriculum links:
- English literacy and language – written and verbal communication, comprehension and analysis
- Science/sciences and technology – prediction, methodology and evidence
- Geography/social studies/the world around us – weather, climate change, environment
- Art and design/expressive arts – storytelling, creative thinking
Time required: 60 minutes for all activities (or less if individual tasks are selected)
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