NJClimateWeek: Changes in Precipitation

Positives

• This video includes a variety of perspectives from across New Jersey's governmental agencies, which will provide students with a nuanced understanding of how increased precipitation is impacting the state and what can be done to mitigate the impacts. 
• Many strategies are included for what can be done at the individual, local, and state level. 

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should have some prior knowledge about how climate change can increase extreme weather.
  

Differentiation

• Cross-curricular connections could be made in social studies classes by using the resource to consider and discuss how state and local governments function. 
• Students can use this resource to create a list of action items regarding stormwater management. Have students work individually or with a partner to brainstorm all the steps people and governments can take, then compile the lists into a class document. 
• As an extension, have students choose an item from their list or from the video and write a letter or e-mail to a local official to advocate for the strategy to be used. 
• Other related resources include this e-book about the relationship between global warming and extreme weather, this video about the increased intensity of hurricanes, this video about why more floods are coming to New Jersey, and this interactive flood mapping tool for New Jersey.