Disaster Preparedness

Grades9, 10, 11, 12Earth and Space Sciences, Geography

Provided by The Climate Initiative

What it is

This interactive virtual classroom provides links to various resources about climate-related disasters.
Students will learn about mitigation and adaptation measures, steps to prepare for a disaster, how climate change increases the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, and the importance of access to education following a climate emergency.
The resource also connects climate change and human rights, namely education.

Prerequisites:

Classroom Implementation:

Use this as a collection of sources students can use for writing research papers related to climate change, extreme weather, and adaptation measures.
Prepare a list of questions students can answer by visiting the given resources. Students can use a few class periods to complete the webquest, or complete it as homework.
Have students use the resources to create a climate emergency guide, complete with an explanation of the role of climate change in natural disasters, natural disasters to anticipate in their area, and how to prepare.

Hosted on theclimateinitiative.org

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Standards alignment · D2.Geo.10.9-12 + 8 more

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards

D2.Geo.10.9-12Evaluate how changes in the environmental and cultural characteristics of a place or region influence spatial patterns of trade and land use.
D2.Geo.3.9-12Use geographic data to analyze variations in the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics at multiple scales.
D2.Geo.4.9-12Analyze relationships and interactions within and between human and physical systems to explain reciprocal influences that occur among them.
D2.Geo.9.9-12Evaluate the influence of long-term climate variability on human migration and settlement patterns, resource use, and land uses at local-to-global scales.

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

HS-ESS3-B.Natural hazards and other geologic events have shaped the course of human history; [they] have significantly altered the sizes of human populations and have driven human migrations. (HS-ESS3-1) (HS-ESS3-1)

Science

HS-ESS3-1.Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, and changes in climate have influenced human activity.
HS-ESS3-4.Evaluate or refine a technological solution that reduces impacts of human activities on natural systems.

Social Studies

SS.Geog1.b.hInterpret maps and images (e.g., political, physical, relief, thematic, virtual, electronic) to analyze geographic problems and changes over time.
SS.Geog5.a.hAnalyze the intentional and unintentional spatial consequences of human actions on the environment at the local, state, tribal, regional, country, and world levels.