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Earth Hour - Climate Change Affect On Biodiversity
Lesson4 of 11 in this unit
SecondaryYear 9 - 10ScienceHumanities and Social SciencesGeographyEnvironmentalBiodiversityClimate Change
Lesson Summary
In this activity students explore the positive and negative impacts of climate change on biodiversity. Students work in groups to investigate the impacts on five animals – Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby, Giant Gippsland Earthworm, Common Clownfish, Southern Corroboree Frog and Regent Honeyeater – and create a fact sheet describing the impacts on these animals.
Learning intentions
Students will:
- understand that climate change will have both negative and positive impacts on biodiversity
- recognise that most climate change impacts on biodiversity are negative
- understand that biodiversity is vulnerable to numerous types of climate change impacts
- understand that there are actions we can take to help biodiversity cope with the impacts from climate change
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