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National Geographic: Earth's Changing Climates ActivityNational Geographic: Earth's Changing Climates Activity
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National Geographic
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9th - 10th
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Science
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National Geographic: Earth's Changing Climates

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In this lesson, students investigate changes that have been documented showing how the Earth's climate has changed in the last 120 years and over larger time spans. They use it to infer possible future climate trends, while learning that such data does have some limitations. Includes online student exercises and a teacher answer key, a vocabulary list with definitions, and website links.

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Concepts

climate change

Additional Tags

climate trends, b.di.3.a climate change, historical climate data, prediting future climate of earth

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional|practice

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