Weather is the short-term conditions of the atmosphere (like rain or sunshine), while climate is the long-term average of weather patterns (stress the idea of patterns – that in a stable climate tend to repeat and are predictable over the long term).
This fun hands on experiment will take the students one step closer to understanding the Greenhouse Effect and how heat is trapped in the atmosphere and its impacts on climate change.
In this lesson students will learn about 3 of the major ways climate change is affecting the ocean (Ocean Acidification, Sea Level Rise and Temperature Rise) through a series of hands on demonstrations. This lesson also comes with an optional extension that...
This lesson brings together what students have learned about the difference between climate and weather and how climate change is impacting ecosystems, focusing solely on how these things might impact to the Cayman Islands. This lesson contains video resourc...
This lesson is all about what we can do to mitigate some of the threats faced by climate change! It should help empower students to see how easy it is to make simples changes and how we can encourage others to do the same.
This lesson is the final summative assessment for the unit and requires students to combine all they have learned into a project that highlights their understanding of climate change in the context of the Cayman Islands.
This is an interview with Dillen Douglas from the from the Blue Iguana Conservation Program. In this video we the difference between blue and green iguanas, how they use the forest, the threats they face and what we are doing to protect them.
This is an interview with Matt Southgate from the Department of the Environment. In this video we the different ways birds use the mangroves and some of the threats they face as a result of climate change.
This is an interview with members of the Department of the Environments Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease team about coral reefs and some of the threats they face, and what can be done to protect them.
In this video we interview Stuart Mailer from the National Trust for the Cayman Islands and get a forest 101 about the species that live in, and rely on, the forest ecosystem.
In this video we are interviewing Todd Bohannon from REEF and the Grouper Moon Projectwe and talking about the Nassau Grouper and their comeback story here in the Cayman Islands.
In this video we interview Cassie MacDowel from the Mangrove Action Project about mangroves and the many ways they protect us from climate change, along with the ways in which we threaten them.
In this video we are speaking to Dr. Jane Hardwick and the turtle team from the Department of the Environment about their turtle project and the ways in which climate change impacts sea turtles and their populations.
