Teaching Tips: Micronesia's Changing Climate

Here is a suggested way to engage students with this video and with activities related to this topic.

Class activity: Discuss the environmental changes you have seen on your island. Have students draw maps or diagrams that show the connections among ecosystems and how changes in one ecosystem can cause changes in another. For example, if a particular kind of fish is no longer found in your waters, its predators will either move elsewhere (if they can) or die off. Its prey will increase in number. Impacts on human communities can be diagrammed as well.