2025 NJ Scientific Report on Climate Change
Scientific Reports
Grades9, 10, 11, 12, APBiology, Geography
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What it is
- This scientific report details how climate change is expected to impact New Jersey’s environment, wildlife, and citizens in the near future.
- In these 299 pages, students will find information on emissions, temperature and precipitation changes, sea level rise, air quality, and their implications for New Jersey’s water, ecosystems, agriculture, and public health.
Teaching tips
Positives
- This report is very thorough.
- Students will feel a sense of hope as they read about New Jersey’s goal to lead the rest of the United States in climate action.
Prerequisites
- This report builds on the readers’ extensive familiarity with climate change, its causes, and its impacts.
Differentiation & Implementation
- Students can read the Executive summary, sections of it, or the pink Key Findings boxes, depending on how much class time is available.
- In language arts classes, students can use data or excerpts from this report as evidence to support an informative or persuasive essay on the topic of climate change in New Jersey.
- The sections discussing the impacts on human health, agriculture, and communities can be helpful for students who are exploring environmental justice concerns in the New Jersey region.
- Teachers can assign individual chapters to connect to the topics being studied, such as assigning Chapter 4 for topics on weather and climate or Chapter 5 for biology topics.
From the scientist review
This resource presents in detail the impacts of climate change on the state of New Jersey. Also included is an excellent primer on the basic science of climate change from the global to regional scale (Ch. 2). The report is well-sourced, thorough, and up-to-date. This resource is recommended for teaching.
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