Lesson Plans

Climate Change Reporting [Selections for Grades K-12]

Image by Ako Salemi. Iran, 2016.

High School

“Rwandan People and Mountain Gorillas Face Changing Climate Together” [Text]
June 27, 2018 | Mongabay
BY ELHAM SHABAHAT

“China’s Surprising Solutions to Killer Air” [Text and Photo]
May 05, 2017 | National Geographic
BY BETH GARDINER

Whale Hunting in Alaska: Point Hope, the Village Caught between Tradition and Climate Change [Text and Photo]
July 16, 2015 | The Guardian
BY JULIA O'MALLEY

Middle School

“Surveying Texas’s Post-Hurricane Harvey Landscape, with a Camera and a Four-Seat Plane” [Text and Photo]
November 10, 2017 | The New Yorker
BY DAN GROSSMAN AND ALEX MACLEAN

“Floating Hospitals Treat Those Affected by Rising Seas” [Text and Video]
March 07, 2017 | National Geographic
BY NIKITA SAMPATH

“Feeding a Hot, Hungry Planet” [Text and Photo]
May 24, 2017 | Scientific American
BY LISA PALMER

Elementary School

“How a Warmer Arctic Could Affect Extreme Weather” [Video and Text]
April 22, 2018 | Vox
BY ELI KINTISCH

“Wind Turbines or Reindeer: Do We Have to Choose?” [Audio and Text]
November 21, 2017 | PRI's The World
BY AMY MARTIN

“For Algeria’s Struggling Herders, ‘Drought Stops Everything’” [Text]
October 12, 2017 | Thomson Reuters Foundation
BY YASMIN BENDAAS

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