Most have heard of climate change, but what does it really mean? Scholars first answer a set of pre-assessment questions about climate change to help instructors gauge how much they know. They listen to a video lecture, watch a news clip, and consider some cartoons on climate change before reflecting on what they gleaned from the sources.

Concepts

climate, climate change, carbon dioxide, human impact on the environment, global warming

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Challenge learners to find other references to climate change in newspapers, magazines, or websites to share with the class
  

Classroom Considerations

• This is the first of five lessons in Unit 1: The Big Climate Change Experiment
• Pupils should have experience with political cartoons
  

Pros

• Provides printable worksheets
• Includes background information for teachers
  

Cons

• Some links in the unit are outdated or broken
  

Common Core

RI.9-10.2 SL.9-10.4 RI.11-12.2 SL.11-12.4