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Educator GuideDecember 14, 2021

Climate Change Impacts Educator Guide

TILclimate climate impacts guide for educators
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Jose Antonio Alba and Water Alternatives via Flickr

 

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:
  • Explain how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere causes higher temperatures.

  • Explain some relationships between higher temperatures and changes to precipitation.

  • Understand key climate challenges for their area.

  • Understand a few adaptation solutions for their area.

Skills:
  • Understanding graphs

  • Communicating scientific understanding

Standards:
  • 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.

  • 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:
  • ESS2.D Weather and Climate

  • ESS3.C Human Impacts on Earth Systems

  • ESS3.D Global Climate Change

 

What is included in this Educator Guide
  1. How to use TILclimate Educator Guides (Download)
     
  2. Teacher pages (Download)
    • Includes materials, setup instructions, discussion questions, background resources, extensions, and adaptation suggestions for science, social science, and ELA teachers
       
  3. Student pages (Download)
    • The Water Cycle Game

    • Investigate local climate impacts

    • Investigate climate adaptation and resilience

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