Water Resources Working Group

• This article examines how climate change is impacting surface water temperatures, aquatic ecosystems, and precipitation patterns in Wisconsin and provides many solutions and strategies for mitigating these impacts.
• Students will learn about rising water temperatures, the effects of warmer water on cold-water fish, and increases in extreme precipitation that threaten human health and safety.

Positives

• This article provides many local stories and additional resources to extend learning.
• This article touches on environmental justice issues.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar with what climate change is and how humans are contributing to it.
• Students should know the following terms: phosphorus loading, algal blooms, invasive species, dissolved oxygen, and evapotranspiration.

Differentiation

• For this article, teachers could go over the main idea of each paragraph in order to ensure comprehension.
• Teachers could have students read this article at home to prepare for an in-class discussion on how climate change is impacting human populations.
• Before reading the article, the teacher could ask questions about climate change's impact on water resources in order to gauge misconceptions and prior knowledge.
• Students could use this article for an argumentative essay on how climate change poses an existential threat to human life and what should be done to fight it.
  

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