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Are You Climate Literate?: Play the Essential Principles Challenge ActivityAre You Climate Literate?: Play the Essential Principles Challenge Activity
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NOAA
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6th - 8th
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Science
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Are You Climate Literate?: Play the Essential Principles Challenge

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This Are You Climate Literate?: Play the Essential Principles Challenge activity also includes:
  • Discover Your Changing World with NOAA - Full Activity Book
  • Activity Alignment to NGSS, Climate Literacy and Energy Literacy Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts
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Installment eight of the 10-part Discover Your Changing World series tests the class's understanding of climate. Scholars play alone or in small groups to assess their understanding of climate systems, causes of climate change, and effects of climate change. Additional resources for each of the cards allow for more research or exploration.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

climate change, climate, the greenhouse effect, the earth, temperature, the earth's atmosphere, the atmosphere, atmospheric conditions

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Use questions as an assessment
  • Have learners pair up or join small groups and compete against one another

Classroom Considerations

  • Learners must have knowledge about climate change
  • Students play the game using printed cards or PowerPoint

Pros

  • Engaging and fun game
  • Perfect as an assessment or an activity

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RST.6-8.4

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