Teaching Tips

• Within the main page are several links to additional resources and pages, which could quickly overwhelm students. Teachers should consider how to help guide students through the resource and how to stay organized with the number of tabs required to fully explore this resource.
• Teachers should plan to create a worksheet, or a set of instructions to help guide students through this resource and assess their understanding. The resource could also be used to complement a group project or classroom activity.
• Teachers might assign students to investigate patterns for specific hazards, or to investigate a specific location to better understand its vulnerabilities and opportunities to improve resilience.
• Teachers could extend this activity by having students investigate a climate-related hazard that has occurred in their area (or nationwide), or the policies currently in place to support the community in the event of a climate-related hazard.
• This resource will be most effective for Grades 9-12 and college level. However, middle school teachers may consider using it with significant scaffolding or as a visualization shown to the students.

About the Content

• The Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation (CMRA)interactive covers multiple topics related to climate change and natural hazards in a visual and interactive way. The embedded resources are provided to help users understand various climate-related hazards as well as policies aimed at resilience to such hazards.
• The embedded resources and data are well cited (with links) and information is provided as to what data was used to create models of future climate-related hazards.
• There are definitions for nearly all the terms on the website and instructions on how to use each of the simulations.
• Passed initial science review - expert science review pending.

About the Pedagogy

• This resource supports students' understanding of how various communities are, and will be impacted by climate-related hazards. Additionally, it supports students in thinking about policies that increase a community's resilience to climate-related hazards.
• The teacher will need to teach about climate adaptation or potential hazards communities face from climate change prior to having students use this tool. This resource may support a larger unit on these topics.
• There is no formal lesson plan provided, and the amount of information could be overwhelming to students. However, the resource is interactive and engaging, allowing students to view data in a variety of formats.
• This resource is technically advanced and may require extra support for students. They may need support with how to interpret various means of data visualization as well as how to use the assessment tool.

• This resource engages students in using scientific data.
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Technical Details/Ease of Use

• This resource contains a variety of supplementary resources, including an interactive map, an assessment tool, and links to various story maps. If all of the resources are accessed, the user will end up with a large number of tabs open which may be difficult to keep track of.
• Students will need a computer with internet access to use this resource.
• Instructions are provided on the website for how to utilize the interactive tools.