This Guide for Educators was developed by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative as an extension of our TILclimate (Today I Learned: Climate) podcast, to make it easier for you to teach climate change, earth science, and energy topics in the classroom. It is an extension of the TILclimate episode "TIL about climate impacts."
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Description
We hear about climate impacts all over the world, often in global terms. But what is happening where? And what will happen in our own communities? Students play a game to understand changes to precipitation. Then, using the US Climate Resilience Toolkit, they investigate local climate concerns and solutions.
SWBAT:
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Explain how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere causes higher temperatures.
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Explain some relationships between higher temperatures and changes to precipitation.
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Understand key climate challenges for their area.
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Understand a few adaptation solutions for their area.
Skills:
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Understanding graphs
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Communicating scientific understanding
Standards:
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HS-ESS2-4 Use a model to describe how variations in the flow of energy into and out of Earth’s systems result in changes in climate.
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HS-ESS3-5 Analyze the results from global climate models to make an evidence-based forecast of the current rate of global or regional climate change.
Disciplinary core ideas:
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ESS2.D Weather and Climate
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ESS3.C Human Impacts on Earth Systems
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ESS3.D Global Climate Change
What is included in this Educator Guide
- How to use TILclimate Educator Guides (Download)
- Full Educator Guide (Download)
- Includes both Teacher and Student pages
- Includes both Teacher and Student pages
- Teacher pages (Download)
- Includes materials, discussion questions, background resources, and adaptation suggestions for science, social science, and ELA teachers
- Includes materials, discussion questions, background resources, and adaptation suggestions for science, social science, and ELA teachers
- Student pages (Download)
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Game: The Water Cycle
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Investigation & Communication: Local Resilience
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Investigation: Think Globally, Act Locally
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Maps: Water Cycle Game Data
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