Wellbeing check: Before this activity, we recommend checking in with your students about any personal climate change impacts and their effects, both physically and/or mentally.
Learning intention: As ‘climate journalists’, students research a recent significant local or national climate related event, writing it up as a news article and presenting back to the wider group.
Students fill out Taskpad Step 2: Current climate effects – researching information on local climate, weather, and environment and how it currently affects them. This relates to Step 2 of the Climate Change Adaptation Toolbox: How resiliant are you to climate risks?
News articles/presentations
In groups of 3 or 4, make news articles/presentations on a weather/climate related event that has impacted you in the past and present back to class.
To get you started:
- If no one in the group can think of anything, could choose something that has impacted the region.
- How do weather/climate related events impact on your life?
- You might find this article helpful: How to Write a Newspaper Article for Grades (Years) 3-5.
Fill out Taskpad Step 2 in groups of 3-4 (you should have downloaded the Taskpad in Activity One)
- Teacher may need to walk around and give assistance.
- Each group could work on a different section or all groups could try and get through everything.
- Discuss as a class at the end.
Interview whānau about the impact climate events have had on them
- Could work together as a class first to brainstorm some questions.
- After interviews, report back to see similarities and differences between different families and their specific climate-related concerns and priorities.
- Discuss how climate varies if some families are from different regions/countries to the school.
Next: Activity three: Predicting the unpredictable – future climate effects