Teaching Tips

• The estimated preparation time for this activity is 3 hours total, if the teacher were to cover all 5 lessons.
• If students do not live along the Gulf coast, consider adapting this lesson to suit the environmental problems in their area. Alternatively this can support an understanding of issues that face neighboring communities.
• If not in Louisiana, teachers could choose to focus on example climate adaptations more relevant to their region.
• Students could make a poster with their climate adaptation plan and get feedback by having students move around the room with sticky notes to put constructive feedback on the posters.

About the Content

• This resource includes 5 modules that build an understanding of the climate-change related events that effect Gulf coast communities.
• Students will work to create a School Resiliency plan to address these environmental issues.
• Student will engage in problem and solution-based thinking and peer-review to learn about policy, infrastructure and urban planning.
• Passed initial science review - expert science review pending.

About the Pedagogy

• A learning objective and rubric is provided for every module in addition to a journal prompt that can be assigned as homework.
• Each lesson includes tags for the Louisiana Student Standards for Science.
• This is a 5-part lesson, but each activity can standalone.
• In the lessons the students learn about climate adaptation strategies in Louisiana, identify an environmental problem impacting their school, design a climate adaptation project for their school, present their plan to the class and receive feedback, and revise their adaptation plan based on the feedback.
• This is an inquiry and project-based resource.
• Students with varied learning styles will have the opportunity for hands-on learning. There is some reading and presentation involved, so for English Language Learners it could be useful to allow them to share in whatever language they feel comfortable with to encourage engagement.

Technical Details/Ease of Use

• This resource is well organized, has a clear teaching sequence, and both the teacher's guide and all associated lesson documents are in PDF format.
• Data is easily accessible on the lesson websites.
• Teachers may need the ability to display slides while presenting.

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