Aanji-bimaadiziimagak o’ow aki: Vulnerability Assessment 2023

• This detailed report combines Indigenous and scientific ecological knowledge to describe how climate change is impacting the Great Lakes region, how vulnerable this region may be to future climate impacts, detailed effects on various plants and animals, and suggested next steps to address these changes.
• The report contains a glossary of terms, Ojibwe pronunication guide, abstract, introductory Ojibwe story, table of contents, colorful graphs, maps, and images, and beautiful artwork on the cover.

Positives

• The report is thorough and well-organized.
• Due to the holistic nature of the report, different sections of the report can be used for various subjects, classes, assignments, or lessons.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students need to have a solid understanding of climate change or the greenhouse effect to fully understand this report.
• If you click a section on the "Table of Contents" you will be taken to the corresponding page, making it easy to navigate online.
  

Differentiation

• The report could accompany a lesson on how climate change impacts communities, ecosystems, and biodiversity.
• The report could augment a lesson about the impacts of climate change on human activities.
• The report could enhance a classroom discussion on what the environment might look like today if Indigenous peoples were not forcefully removed from their lands.
• Biology and ecology classes could use a variety of sections to incorporate into lessons about ecosystem services, keystone species, interspecific relationships, and population dynamics.
• The word clouds could be used as inspiration for language arts or visual arts classes.
• Math classes could use the data sets provided to practice analyzing categorical and quantitative data.