And now moving on to the next story. The last of five lessons in Unit 1: The Big Climate Change Experiment requires groups to create a script for a news segment on climate change. They either make a video of their story or conduct a live presentation in front of the class.

Concepts

climate, climate change, news reporting, hypotheses, scientific theories, consequences

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• If possible, plan a field trip to a local news station
• Invite classes from lower grades to the presentation
  

Classroom Considerations

• Scholars should be familiar with the evidence for climate change from previous lessons in the unit
  

Pros

• Includes a rubric for the activity
• Provides a set of printable worksheets
  

Cons

• Links to websites are broken in some cases
  

Common Core

SL.9-10.1.a SL.9-10.2 SL.9-10.3 SL.9-10.4 SL.9-10.5 SL.11-12.1.a SL.11-12.2 SL.11-12.3 SL.11-12.4 SL.11-12.5