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.
This resource is a 5-minute video that presents a brief overview of historical and future human migration, with a particular focus on the likely 200 million people that will need to move due to climate change between now and 2050. This resource discusses social and political challenges that these climate refugees face, and provides several examples of communities that are already being forced to move do to climate change. This resource is recommended for teaching.
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