Climate Change Lesson Plans

Students question each other to access prior knowledge of climate change. In this climate change lesson, students read about climate change and develop a list of vocabulary words. Students create a journal to record vocabulary. Students assess what they have learned.

Students investigate the differences between weather in the past and in today's world.  In this climate change lesson, students review what they currently know about global warming, then discuss ways climate change might make life better or worse.  Students complete worksheets informing them of the dangers of global warming.

Learners use worksheets, lab activities, and computer animations to explore climate change. In this global warming instructional activity, students experiment to determine carbon dioxide concentrations in various gas mixtures. They use worksheets and flash interactive animations to demonstrate increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in Earth's atmosphere.

Students synthesize or express concepts towards solving the question posed at each lab station about climate change. After all lab teams have finished, the teacher facilitates a class discussion on teams' responses to each station.

Students explore climate changes and global warming. In this climate change lesson, students create an endangered species class section. Students investigate actions to reduce global warming.

Students consider how the European Union deals with issues of  of global warming and climate change. In this global studies instructional activity, students use primary sources to gather information and develop persuasive arguments. This instructional activity has several activities, web searches with worksheets, and assessments.

Young scholars explore the concept of climate change. In this climate change lesson plan, students break up into groups and research climate change and create a Blog to present their findings.  Young scholars then break into 2 groups, debating whether climate change is natural or caused by man. This debate will be published as a podcast.

Students define the term 'global climate change' and explore how it affects our lives. They research greenhouse gases and identify what events are causing an increase in the amount of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. Students view videos, conduct experiments and participate in class discussion.

Students focus on the production of maple syrup in Northern New England as they study the effects of climate change. They investigate other environmental factors on the forests of Northern New England.

Students investigate the greenhouse effect and examine the potential effects of climate change in the Arctic. They construct a mini-greenhouse and test its effect on temperature, analyze historical climate statistics, and conduct an experiment about the insulating properties of sea ice.