Climate Projections
Lesson Plans
Grades6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12Earth and Space Sciences, Computer Science
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What it is
- This self-paced interactive course on climate projections features sections on climate models, the water cycle, tropical climate, tipping points, global warming, and sea level rise.
- This course contains text, interactive questions, infographics, links to references, current problems, and an assessment.
Teaching tips
Positives
- This course is very easy for students to navigate.
- Students earn a certificate if they complete the course.
Additional Prerequisites
- This course is part of a series of climate change courses from ClimateScience.
- Students should have a basic understanding of climate change prior to beginning this course on climate predictions.
- Students will need a computer and Internet connection to use the interactive features.
- Teachers and students will need to enroll and create a free account to use the course and save their progress.
Differentiation
- Stronger students can spend time reading and exploring any of the links to actual scientific papers.
- Students can proceed through this course at their own pace.
- Cross-curricular connections could be made with social studies, geography, and civics classes when discussing the current and projected effects of climate change on human communities.
- This could be a great resource for computer science or programming classes as well.
- Other resources related to this topic include this interactive resource on paleoclimate, this interactive course on the impacts of climate change, this video on using ice core data, and this article on using ice cores to determine temperatures of the past.
From the scientist review
The resource outlines ways to monitor and predict the climate. Additional resources contain scenarios and variables used to model the climate. This is simplified and suitable for students to learn.
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