Telling the Story of Regional Impacts of Climate Change
Overview
This Mad Lib activity will help students learn about climate change causes and impacts while exploring things they can do to help the Earth through a fun, interactive game.
Activity Type:
Lesson
Target Grade Level:
3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Estimated Duration:
Varies
Topics:
Regional Impacts
Possible Connections to NGSS |
Performance Expectations 4-ESS3-1: Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment. 5-ESS3-1: Combine and obtain information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect Earth’s resources and environment. MS-LS2-4: Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations. MS-ESS3-4: Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems. MS-ESS3-5: Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century. HS-ESS3-1: Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, and changes in climate have influenced human activity. HS-ESS3-5: Analyze geoscience data and the results from global climate models to make an evidence-based forecast of the current rate of global or regional climate change and associated future impacts to Earth's systems. |
Created by:
Climate Kids
