WICCI's Climate Working Group

• This summary of issues and impacts examines how Wisconsin's climate has changed, what the state's precipitation and temperatures could look like in the future, and strategies that Wisconsin could employ to address the climate change.
• The 2021 WICCI Assessment Report is linked and the article is divided into sections, including the main findings, major takeaways, recommendations, and environmental and climate justice issues.
  

Positives

• This article is concise and filled with engaging visuals.
• It presents the data, connects it to local events, and provides solutions and strategies to help.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students need to understand the basics of global warming and the water cycle.
• The 2021 report can be downloaded as a PDF or viewed online.

Differentiation

• This article could supplement a lesson on environmental justice and how this type of oppression impacts the personal health of these communities.
• This article could support a lesson about climate change and its connection to extreme weather events.
• This article could enhance a classroom discussion on which states take climate change seriously, which states don't, and the implications of this discrepancy.
• Science classes can use this article and linked report to evaluate the evidence of global warming, climate change, and the effects on Wisconsin's ecosystems and people.