Visualizing Changes in the Great Lakes

Which Great Lakes factors will increase and which will decrease as a

result of climate change?

OHSU-EP-102-2013

Visualizing Changes

• Concept map for impacts of climate change on Great Lakes

• From central card, use more/less cards and impact cards to illustrate primary, secondary, and tertiary effects and their interconnections

Example Concept Map

Sample Questions

• Did you notice any particular patterns in this exercise?

• Do the colors mean anything to you?• What impacts were more difficult to place?

Does this relate to conversations you’ve had with stakeholders or other planners?

• How do you think this would work with your audience? Are there changes you might make in using this with your audience?

Acknowledgements

• Laura Holladay (Michigan Sea Grant), Diane Desotelle (Minnesota Sea Grant), and Molly Woloczyn (Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant) for their help with adapting the original curriculum activity for outreach educators

• Dr. Rosanne Fortner and Lyndsey Manzo for creating the original curriculum activity