The climate action project at Lycée Raoul Dautry focuses on understanding the effects of climate change on both global and local communities, encouraging students to examine similarities and differences in impacts. Activities involve predicting future consequences based on temperature increases and gathering supporting data from various sources like NASA and the WWF. The project concludes with presentations and discussions on the relevance of data in informing others about climate change effects.

1. CLIMATE ACTION
PROJECT
Lycée Raoul Dautry - France
Marie-Hélène Fasquel

2. Week 2 – Exploration
◦ Objectives for this week:
 Understand how climate change is
affecting our planet
 Explain the impact of climate change
on our local community
 Use data and research to predict the
future impacts of climate change

3. Activity #1 – Examine Global and Local Impacts of a
Changing Climate
◦ What are the similarities and differences in how climate change is
impacting our planet and our local community?
◦ Develop a hypothesis/prediction: brainstorm all of the local and
global effects you think a warming climate may be having on:
• Flora (plants)
• Fauna (animals)
• Weather patterns
• Human activities and how we live
◦ Research and collect data: explore several sources of climate data.
Note any evidence that supports AND does not support their
prediction.

4. Data
Climate Change Effects - NASA
WWF – Effects of Climate Chan
ge
Global Warming Impacts – Unio
n of Concerned Scientists
EU - Climate Impacts
Europe

5. Activity #2 –Possible Future Impacts of Climate
Change
◦ Define the problem: If the Earth’s average temperature were to rise by 1.5 or 2
degrees Celsius, would that have a large impact on the animals, plants,
weather patterns, and human activity?
Research and collect data:
◦ Research what the possible effects of climate change might be in the future.
Some sources of data and information on possible future effects of climate
change:
◦ • IPCC - Global Warming of 1.5 ºC
◦ • Long Term Effects of Climate Change
◦ • NASA: Why Global Temperatures Matter
◦ • WWF – What’s at Stake if We Don’t Act

6. Research
◦ Research to be presented in
class and on the Padlet.
◦ 1-minute presentations.

7. Conclude
◦ Are some of these data we looked at
more relevant to our question than
others?
• Which prediction does the data support?
• How can we use data to show people
outside our class what we have learned?
• Are there any other data that you wish
you had?