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Description
Climate Refugees enables students to learn about human migration caused by climate change, and the term 'Climate Refugees' and its growing significance. The activity provides insights into geographic locations whose existence is threatened by climate change, and communities that are fleeing their homes, resulting in large-scale migration. Thus, the use of this lesson plan allows you to integrate the teaching of a climate science topic with a core topic in Social Sciences.
The tools in this lesson plan will enable students to:
- identify climate change-related threats to the existence of some regions in the world.
- describe the problem of environmental migration and the term, 'Climate Refugee'.
- discuss the challenges faced by climate refugees
- enumerate the problems caused by large-scale human migration
- propose policies to handle the challenges posed by climate change-related migration.
The link to the Climate Migrants activity is broken on the website you can access the worksheet here.
General Assessment
Strengths
- Additional resources are provided to go deeper into the issue.
Recommendation of how and where to use it
This set of computer-based tools can help with the teaching of topics such as Social and Environmental Policy, Climate Change and Human Migration, Climate Refugees/Environmental Migrants, and Climate Justice.
Relevant Curriculum Units
The following tool will allow you to explore the relevant curriculum matches for this resource. To start, select a province listed below.
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- Alberta
- British Columbia
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- Grade 11
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- Science
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- Earth Science 11: The transfer of energy through the atmosphere creates weather and is affected by climate change
- Science for Citizenship 11: Scientific understanding enables humans to respond and adapt to changes locally and globally
- Grade 12
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- Environmental Science
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- Environmental Science 12: Human activities cause changes in the global climate system
- Social Studies
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- Physical Geography 12: Interactions between human activities and the atmosphere affect local and global weather and climate
- Physical Geography 12: Natural processes have an impact on the landscape and human settlement
- Manitoba
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- Grade 10
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- Science
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- Senior 2 Science: Weather Dynamics
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- Geography
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- World Geography: A Human Perspective - World Population: Characteristics, Distribution, and Growth
- Social Studies
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- Citizenship and Sustainability: Area of Inquiry: Environment
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- New Brunswick
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- Grade 9
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- Science
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- Science 9 Ecosystem Dynamics: Learning and Living Sustainably
- Grade 10
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- Science
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- Learning and Living Sustainably (STSE)
- Science 10 Science for Sustainable Societies
- Grade 12
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- Environmental Science
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- Introduction to Environmental Science 120: Investigating Environmental Issues
- Newfoundland & Labrador
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- Science 2200: Weather Dynamics
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- Environmental Science
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- Environmental Science 3205: Introduction to Environmental Science
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- World Geography 3200/3202: Population Distribution and Growth
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- Social Studies 3201: Human-Environment Interaction
- Social Studies 3201: Quality of Life
- Northwest Territories
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- Grade 11
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- Earth Science 11: The transfer of energy through the atmosphere creates weather and is affected by climate change
- Science for Citizenship 11: Scientific understanding enables humans to respond and adapt to changes locally and globally
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- Environmental Science
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- Environmental Science 12: Human activities cause changes in the global climate system
- Nova Scotia
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- Grade 9
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- Social Studies
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- Citizenship 9: Global Citizenship
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- Science
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- Science 10: Weather Dynamics
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- Environmental Science
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- AP Environmental Science: Global Change
- Geography
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- AP Human Geography: Population and Migration Patterns and Processes
- Global Geography: Population
- Social Studies
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- Global Sustainable Solutions: Sustainable Populations
- Ontario
- Step 2Select a grade level
- Grade 10
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- Science (Academic):Earth and Space Science: Climate Change
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- Grade 11
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- Environmental Science
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- Environmental Science (Univ/College Prep.) Human Health and the Environment
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- Forces of Nature: processes and Disasters (Univ./College Prep.): Systems: Interactions and Interdependece
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- Geography
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- World Issues: A Geographic Analysis (College Prep.):Changing Societies
- World Issues: A Geographic Analysis (Univ. Prep.): Social Change and the Quality of Life
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- Challenge and Change in Society (Univ. Prep.) Global Social Challenges
- Prince Edward Island
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- Interdependence: Atlantic Canada in the Global Community: Citizenship in the Global Community
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- Geography of Canada 421A: Canada’s Global Connections
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- Geography 521A, Global Studies: Cultural Patterns of the World
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- Environmental Science
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- Environmental Science 621A: Environmental Challenges and Successes
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- Geography 621A Global Issues : Inquiry- What are the issues?
- Geography 631A Global Issues: What are the issues?
- Quebec
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- Contemporary World: Environment
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- Social Studiees 20:World Issues - Environment
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- Science
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- Earth Science 11: The transfer of energy through the atmosphere creates weather and is affected by climate change
- Science for Citizenship 11: Scientific understanding enables humans to respond and adapt to changes locally and globally
- Grade 12
- Step 3Select a subject
- Environmental Science
- Step 4Relevant matches
- Environmental Science 12: Human activities cause changes in the global climate system
Themes Addressed
Air, Atmosphere & Climate (1)
- Climate Change
Human Health & Environment (1)
- Quality of Life
Human Rights (3)
- Environmental Racism/Justice
- Refugees and Immigration
- Social Justice