Food and Agriculture: Impact on Climate change
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Climate Change, Children and Youth/ UNICEF Canada
This guide has been created to support secondary school educators in their efforts to work with youth to take action on climate change. Through the thought-provoking activities contained here, students will have the opportunity to nurture their compassion and discover how climate change is affecting children around the world, especially children in developing countries. This guide offers students a chance to engage in global climate change issues including natural disasters, food security, energy, health and water water, food , and understand their role in contributing to existing conditions, as well as opportunities for change. Students are encouraged to consider taking action on a personal, school, and community level, as well as at a global scale.
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Farm Sanctuary: Sustainable Future Curriculum
Our modern food system has a profound impact on the environment – polluting our land, air, and water; depleting natural resources; and contributing to global climate change. Farm Sanctuary offers a free curriculum for middle and high school teachers, exploring animal agriculture’s effects on our planet and building scientific literacy on environmental phenomena related to our food system.
Food and Climate Change Curriculum
Comprehensive curriculum/unit to teach how food systems affect climate change. Strong use of real data is embedded throughout. Full lessons, mini-lessons, and short videos are presented. This series of 6 lessons each take one 45 minute class period.
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This Activity Book looks at key issues related to climate change and agriculture in an enchanted world, through illustrations by Lorenzo Terranera. Each illustration explores an important message related to the 2016 World Food Day theme.