Coastal Land Use Methodologies Under Pressure

Positives

• This study's use of charts and figures allows students to anchor their understanding with numbers and data.
• The website includes an index of figures where students can view full-sized versions, making it easy to refer back to as needed.

Additional Prerequisites

• This report is complex, and teachers should ensure that students have experience with reading scientific reports. It may help if students are familiar with the format.
• Students should be familiar with some adaptation strategies that coastal cities implement to reduce climate change impacts, such as green infrastructure, sea walls, permeable ground, and others.
• Some of the links to cited materials do not work.

Differentiation

• Some students may benefit from a printout of the PDF to highlight and annotate as they read.
• Students can use the coordinates of the study's focus locations to practice with GIS mapping tools.
• Language arts students can practice informative writing by creating pieces to explain to city planners what measures they should consider when making their coastal communities more resilient.
• After reading the report, students can discuss why humans better adapt to abrupt changes like floods than to gradual changes like climate change. Students can find examples of adaptation or lack thereof in the face of different environmental shifts.