How Does Climate Change Affect Food Production? (Climate Change, Food Production, and Food Security #3)

Positives

• Students are able to learn about specific climate change topics that are interesting to them.

• Students can learn about the many different ways in which climate change impacts agriculture.

• Students can learn from their peers.

Additional Prerequisites

• This is lesson 3 of 6 in our 6th-8th grade Climate Change, Food Production, and Food Security unit.

• While not necessary, it is helpful for students to have a general sense of some of the global impacts of climate change.

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Differentiation

• Teachers can assign the Teacher Slideshow on Google Classroom and students can submit their work independently.

• Teachers can group students for the guided research section and assign them level-appropriate resources.

• Teachers can eliminate options in the guided research section if the options are overwhelming.

• Teachers can eliminate the video option in the guided research if they want to exclusively assign readings.

• Teachers can review the teacher slideshow as a class and answer the questions as a whole group assignment.

This lesson allows students to explore the impact of climate change on agriculture. They would be able to identify the underlying climatic variables that affect farming systems in different geographies. All resources were fact-checked, and this lesson has passed the science credibility process.

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Supporting Standards

• English Language Arts
  • Reading: Science & Technical Subjects (6-12)
    • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.6-8.2 Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; provide an accurate summary of the text distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
• Science
  • ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
    • MS-ESS3-4. Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.