What are climate change activities?
Activities like generating electricity and running factories, transport and farms cause carbon dioxide, methane and other gases to be emitted. The people in Europe and North America are responsible for more of these emissions than the people in Africa, Asia and South America.
What are 3 activities that contribute to climate change?
Causes for rising emissions
- Burning coal, oil and gas produces carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide.
- Cutting down forests (deforestation).
- Increasing livestock farming.
- Fertilisers containing nitrogen produce nitrous oxide emissions.
- Fluorinated gases are emitted from equipment and products that use these gases.
How do you teach a lesson about climate change?
Here are some thoughts about how to broach the subject with students, no matter what subject you teach:
- Do a lab.
- Show a movie.
- Assign a novel.
- Do citizen science.
- Assign a research project, multimedia presentation or speech.
- Talk about your personal experience.
- Do a service project.
- Start or work in a school garden.
What are 4 examples of climate?
The consequences of climate change now include, among others, intense droughts, water scarcity, severe fires, rising sea levels, flooding, melting polar ice, catastrophic storms and declining biodiversity.
What are examples of climate?
Climate is the average of that weather. For example, you can expect snow in the Northeast in January or for it to be hot and humid in the Southeast in July. This is climate. The climate record also includes extreme values such as record high temperatures or record amounts of rainfall.
How do you teach elementary students about climate change?
5 tips for teaching climate change to elementary students
- Inspire action and tell positive stories.
- Tie it in with what you are already teaching.
- Stick to facts from trusted sources.
- Make it local.
- Use Population Education!