The United States has more per capita emissions than any other country in the world. An eye-opening simulation encourages users to explore environmental goals and factors that affect climate change by balancing different priorities. Scholars pick their priorities then select the policies that align with those. Then they view how this changes the global emissions based on international efforts.

Concepts

environmental factors, climate change, global warming, environmental science, global environment

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Discuss international efforts to reduce emissions
• Debate if countries can or should be able to force other countries to change their policies for global environmental health

Classroom Considerations

• Does not work in the Chrome browser

Pros

• Allows scholars to work through the simulation multiple times
• Graphs clearly display the impact the US — and the rest of the world — have on emissions levels

Cons

• None

Common Core

RST.6-8.4 RST.9-10.4 RST.11-12.4