Session 2: Climate Change Challenge
Description
A playful session that demonstrates weather compared to climate, leading into an energetic game that teaches about the greenhouse effect, global warming and climate change.
Real World Goals
- Understand the difference between weather and climate
- Understand the greenhouse effect and causes of human-induced climate change
- Explore how climate change may have already impacted the community
Duration
60 minutes
Other sessions
Session 1: Introduction
An introduction to Y-adapt ending in a creative competition where teams present real-life examples of youth-led adaptations from around the world.
Session 3: Map the Hazard
Critical thinking challenge to map out extreme weather and its impacts. Voting determines the most frequent and impactful hazards in the local community.
Session 4: See the System
A card game where teams of players compete to identify how people, places, and things (resources) fit into systems. This is followed by an interactive exercise in which youth systematically brainstorm the important resources in their community.
Session 5: Act to Adapt
A giant board game that gets youth to prioritise important resources in their community which are vulnerable to specific extreme weather events. Youth must negotiate with each other to take individual or collective actions to protect their community resources.
Session 6: Choose your Challenge
An interactive challenge in which youth must create an action plan to adapt their community. Youth engage in a reality role-play competition to act through challenges and solutions in implementing their plans, before choosing the adaptation they will implement in real life.
Session 7: Join the Y-Adapt Global Community
This is the final session of the Y-adapt curriculum. Youth create an adaptation card to capture the real world adaptation that they implemented in their community. The card is then shared to inspire other youth around the world, to inspire them to also take action.