I have taught AP Environmental Science and cover climate change pretty well, however, after completing the assignments I have even more points I would share with students. I now teach Agricultural Science and will be teaching an Introduction to Food, Ag, and Natural Resources and the climate change topic fits perfectly. We discuss the different spheres and the connection between them and we will definitely be modeling the effects of drought on agricultural crops and predicting the effects on animals.
We have had more "inclement weather" days off from school in the past few years and students are very aware of that. The students are in school later this year due to snow, ice, and even a WIND day. They are seeing the extremes of weather and notice that it is different then when they were in elementary school. Connecting a warming planet to these effects is a sure way to get them engaged in climate change literacy.