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Climate Change Resources

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                     Aidan has a Public Service Announcement on this topic.  Aidan D

About the video..."On May 28, 2008, Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. The calving event lasted for 75 minutes and the glacier retreated a full mile across a calving face three miles wide. The height of the ice is about 3,000 feet, 300-400 feet above water and the rest below water."

 

 

We could talk about how to evaluate websites. One place for this is RADCAB.

 

Day

Science

English

1

Presentation of Problem

  • Real-life example of how climates and people living within those climates are affected by warming

Receive notebooks

More information and perspective

2

Background Research – use notebooks

  • What is causing problem?

RADCAM

Background Research – use notebooks

RADCAM

3

Background Research

The Skeptics

Cartoons—purpose

  • Create your own climate change/global warming cartoon based on a fact found in background research

4

Background Research

Work on cartoons if research is finished

The Solution: Persuade others that these problems are caused by warming and that humans can alter behaviors to change warming

5

Collecting evidence to support solution

  • Current research—collecting evidence from other sources

Persuasive Writing

6

Collecting evidence

  • In-class experiment

Persuasive Writing

7

Collecting evidence

  • In-class experiment

Persuasive Writing

8

Collecting evidence

  • In-class experiment

Persuasive Writing

9

Wrap up experiments

Work on persuasive writing

Persuasive Writing

10

Communicating results in persuasive essay

Persuasive Writing

11

Persuading Others

  • Publish writing in order to communicate with others

Persuading Others

  • Publish writing in order to communicate with others

12

Persuading Others

Persuading Others

 


 

Another way of looking at the unit:

They are all consultants.  The government wants to know what to do about the Climate Change issue.  Students take a position (we should do something and, then, what we should do specifically, for example).  Students should research the options (doing something, not doing anything, etc.) and be able to back up their recommendations with evidence.  Things to consider:  costs involved (doing nothing, making various changes...); causes of climate change (check their carbon footprint, for example); effects of climate change (on the Great Lakes, on the atmosphere, on coastal cities, etc.).  Beyond their recommendation, they should include what they could do in their own lives.  Be specific.

Share out on Earth Day?

 

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