Climate Change Will Make Millions Homeless. Where Will They Go?
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Provided by: Hot Mess|Published on: April 27, 2021
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Synopsis
- This video highlights how climate change will cause a significant increase in human displacement and migration.
- Students will learn how this will directly impact people worldwide.
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, Geography
Authors: Hot Mess, PBS
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- The video incorporates engaging imagery and clear text to help ensure student understanding and engagement.
Prerequisites
- There is a commercial at the beginning of the video.
- Students will need an understanding of the terms climate change and migration.
Differentiation & Implementation
- Elementary teachers can use the video to discuss the impacts of climate change.
- High school science classes can use the video to discuss how human activity affects the migration patterns of people.
- Middle and high school geography and civics classes can use the video to evaluate the long-term effects of human activity and climate change.
- English teachers can use this resource alongside Write and Perform a Climate Monologue as a monologue topic.
- Other similar resources include the videos Youth Climate Story: Sea Level Rise in Massachusetts, Youth Climate Story: Drought in California, How the Climate Crisis Will force a Massive American Migration and the article Let's Talk About Climate Migrants, Not Climate Refugees.
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