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Climate Lesson Plans
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Students investigate climate change by reading a diagram about carbon cycles. In this ecological lesson, students identify the 4 main elements of the carbon cycle, atmosphere, oceans, terrestrial exchange and fossil fuel emissions. Students read the definitions of several ecological vocabulary terms.
Students discuss how changes in the climate and weather can affect change in their own lives. For this climate change lesson plan, students use an atlas and answer short answer questions.
Sixth graders examine climate change in the state of Colorado. For this climate lesson, 6th graders watch 2 video clips regarding the topic and research the subtopics- snow pack, precipitation, temperature, forest fires, river flow, glaciers, and bird species. Students present their findings to their classmates and write a newspaper article regarding climate change.
Students examine the origin of life on Earth and its evolution through geologic time by participating in a whole class discussion. They respond to prompts that lead them to conclusions about the interactions among the biosphere and the geosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere over time.
Students explore the impact of global warming. For this oceanography lesson, students investigate global climate change and write reaction papers about their research findings.
Students examine how volcanic eruptions affect global climate. They listen to first-hand accounts of the effects of a large volcanic eruption and illustrate a landscape to show understanding. They experiment with the loss of light and create a graph.
Students study coral reefs and the controversy over coral bleaching. They role-play a debate over the issue and come up with a compromise to protect the reefs and the economies that depend on them.
Students act as scientists investigating the damming and experimental flooding of the Colorado River by the Glen Canyon dam that took place in 1996. They write a proposal as to whether or not more experimental flooding should be done on the area considering the ecological effects.
Students assess climate change in the past and in the future. In this global warming lesson, students calculate temperature in the prehistoric world using leaves in a mathematical formula. In another exercise they pretend to be scientists who have just returned from a fossil hunt with the task to analyze their fossils.
Pupils are able to explain the suspected causes of relatively recent climate changes, specifically the observed global warming. They discuss how unusual or extreme global warming disrupts the balance of the earth's geo-spheres.
