Session 5: Act to Adapt

Submitted by Brigitte Rudram | published 5th Jul 2018 | last updated 13th Jan 2020
Session 5: Act to adapt

Description

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.

Real World Goals

  • Explore how extreme weather could affect your community
  • Explore how to you can act by yourself, or together with others
  • Experience how the impacts of climate change could become more intense

Duration

30 – 45 minutes 

Network

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Y-Adapt

Y-Adapt is a curriculum for young people that helps them to both understand climate change and to take practical action to adapt to the changing climate in their community.
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Contributors

Contributing Organisations

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre