Risk, Resilience, and Decision-making

Grades9, 10, 11, 12, APEconomics, Geography

Provided by Probable Futures

What it is

This four-part video series explains some issues faced by businesses due to climate change.
The series corrects the long-held but now-failed assumption of climate stability, connecting business, insurance markets, human health, and climate adaptation.
The four videos cover impacts on agriculture, architecture, insurance, and labor, each running from four to six minutes.

Prerequisites:

Ensure students are familiar with climate change and some of its impacts on weather and seasonal changes.

Classroom Implementation:

Use the first video, “Business Assumptions in a Changing Climate,” in business, agriculture, and geography classes to demonstrate the role of climate change in the agricultural industry.
These videos can enhance discussions in business and economics classes to discuss how industry and the economy are impacted by climate change.
Give each group an area of focus- agriculture, architecture, insurance, or labor- to use the video as a starting point for a research project investigating the influences of climate change on their given area and possible solutions.

Extensions:

Challenge students to propose a product as a solution to a problem that businesses face in a changing climate.

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Standards alignment · Geography + 1 more

Social Studies

Geography1 (D2): Students understand the geography of the United States and various regions of the world and the effect of geographic influences on decisions about the present and future by using inquiry to predict and evaluate consequences of geographic influences.
Geography2 (F2): Students understand geographic aspects of unity and diversity in Maine, the United States, and the world, including Maine Native American communities, by summarizing and interpreting the relationship between geographic features and cultures of Maine Native Americans, and historical and recent immigrant groups in Maine, the United States, and the world.