This video discusses the resiliency of communities during and after climate disasters.
Students will learn that communities with stronger social ties have higher rates of survival and rebuilding than more disconnected communities.
The video concludes that local governments should invest in infrastructure and community services that encourage residents to interact to make their communities more resilient.
Teaching Tips
Positives
The video incorporates engaging imagery as well as clear text to help ensure student understanding and engagement.
Additional Prerequisites
Students will need to be familiar with the concept of climate change.
Students will need to be aware of what climate-related disasters are.
Differentiation
This is an excellent video for social studies and civics classes to use when discussing the importance of community.
Middle school and high school social studies and civics classes can use this video when identifying ways in which individuals and communities can take action involving climate change.
This resource is a 6-minute video that discusses ways in which different communities respond to extreme weather events, particularly in the context of climate change. A 1995 heat wave in Chicago is presented as an example. This resource makes a convincing case that communities that are more connected tend to be more resilient to extreme weather events, in part because residents in these communities tend to know their neighbors and can check in on them during emergencies. This resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
Social Studies
Geography
Geography 2: Students understand geographic aspects of unity and diversity in various regions of the United States and the world by describing features on the daily life of various cultures in the United States and the world.
Geography 2 (F1): Students understand geographic aspects of unity and diversity in Maine, the United States, and various world cultures, including Maine Native Americans, by explaining how geographic features have impacted unity and diversity in Maine, the United States, and other nations.
