Lesson Planning
Impacts of Climate Change
Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of
Climate Change - Mini Topic - NEW LOOK Learn, Think, Act! - NEW LOOK
Objectives
Geography
- To identify some of the impacts of climate change.
- To retrieve and record information from the internet or information books.
- To describe in detail how a plant or animal species is being impacted by climate change.
Enquiry question
What are the impacts of climate change?
Outcomes
Children will:
- List and think critically about some of the impacts of climate change.
- Use the internet and secondary sources of information to find out how climate change is impacting some living things.
- Present information in a fact file to describe how a plant or animal species is being impacted by climate change.
Provided Resources
You Will Also Need
Large sheets of plain paper
Scissors
Information books about climate change (optional)
Weblinks
This video from NASA uses an experiment to demonstrate how the melting of land and sea ice contributes to global level sea rise.
The WWF website could be used to research some of the impacts of climate change on plant and animal species.