Lesson 6 of 6 · Climate
Experiment⭐ 30 XP🌋 Rock RealmMitigation Versus Adaptation
Mitigation Versus Adaptation.
🎯 Your mission
Predict it first. Then prove yourself right (or wrong).
⚡ The twist
Today's mountain was yesterday's ocean floor.
Mind = Blown
🌋 There are 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth right now.
Make a hypothesis first
Guess: where will the water go first?
What You'll Learn
Mitigation reduces the emissions causing warming; adaptation reduces the harm from warming already locked in. Both are needed, they compete for the same budgets, and confusing the two produces policies that do neither well.
Key Words
Tap a word to see its definition.
Materials Needed
- policy cards
- notebook
Safety First
- Have an adult check your set-up before you start, and tidy everything away afterwards.
Steps
Read the explanation above and note the two key terms before you start.
Sort twelve real climate policies into mitigation and adaptation. Pick one of each and identify who pays and who benefits in each case.
Record what actually happened, including anything that did not match what you expected.
Write a conclusion that answers the question this lesson opened with, and state your uncertainty.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 2Building a sea wall is an example of:
Where you see this in real life
Today's weather, tomorrow's beach, next century's coastline — all this.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Look at the sky for 5 minutes and try to predict tomorrow's weather.
For the dinner table
“What's the slowest change you can think of?”
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Mitigation Versus Adaptation
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