UNIT 12 Climate Change
Significant Ideas:
- Climate change has been a normal feature of the Earth’s history, but human activity has contributed to recent changes.
- There has been significant debate about the causes of climate change.
- Climate change causes widespread and significant impacts on a global scale.
- Mitigation attempts to reduce the causes of climate change.
- Adaptation attempts to manage the impacts of climate change.
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Support Material |
The changing climate |
The opening to this unit is introduced by a dramatic movie called Before the Flood After you have watched the whole movie you will formulate answers to the worksheet Complete the questions using the following NASA web links 1. NASA Global Warming worksheet Use the following links on the NASA website: Turn the assignment in for 20 points to Managebac |
Video Weblink
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The global warming debate |
Read the following articles on global warming 2. Global warming is a myth 3. Global warming is real Complete the following worksheet 4. Global warming debate questions |
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Global warming causes |
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Consequences of global warming |
What are the impacts of global warming? 8. Impacts questions Now complete section 7.2 on Kognity including the strength test questions |
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Mitigation and adaptation |
Using the resources here and Kognity 7.3 to produce a summary of mitigation and adaptation methods employed at a personal, local and international level.
10. Adaptation strategies
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Review |