Researching Climate Change LESSON PLAN

This document is a lesson plan created by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) to support the Ojibwe translation of a video about climate change research. It provides a comprehensive linguistic framework, including a full English-Ojibwe transcript, detailed sentence breakdowns, a glossary, and a lesson planning form for educators to teach both the Ojibwe language and scientific concepts related to climate change and its impact on boreal lakes.

• The lesson plan is based on a video from the IISD Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA) that explains climate change and its specific impacts on boreal lakes and fish populations.
• The translation process involved three full-day sessions with language experts and Elders, including blessings and food and tobacco offerings, and concluded with a roundhouse meeting involving Elders and youth to evaluate the work.
• The document provides a detailed linguistic breakdown of the video's content, including a glossary, a list of new words created during translation, and grammatical indicators based on The Ojibwe People’s Dictionary.
• The scientific content describes how climate change leads to decreased precipitation in boreal lakes, which reduces dissolved organic carbon (DOC), making the water lighter in colour and allowing sunlight to penetrate deeper and warm the lake.
• Research indicates that warming lake temperatures force lake trout deeper into the water where oxygen levels are too low, resulting in trout spending more energy to survive and, on average, becoming smaller in size.
• The document references the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, which aims to keep global temperature rise in this century below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

APA

International Institute for Sustainable Development (2021). Researching Climate Change LESSON PLAN. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2021-08/lesson-plan-ojibwe-researching-climate-change.pdf

Chicago

International Institute for Sustainable Development. Researching Climate Change LESSON PLAN. 2021. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2021-08/lesson-plan-ojibwe-researching-climate-change.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{internationalinstituteforsustainabledevelopment2021researching, author = {{International Institute for Sustainable Development}}, title = {{Researching Climate Change LESSON PLAN}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {2021}, month = jun, url = {https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2021-08/lesson-plan-ojibwe-researching-climate-change.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }