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Educator GuideJanuary 20, 2022

Climate Models and Uncertainty Educator Guide

TILclimate uncertainty guide for educators
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Pavel Brodsky via Unsplash

 

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 uncertainty."

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Description

Earth's climate system is enormously complex, and scientists develop climate models to understand how climate change will play out in different parts of the world. Students play a climate resilience game, and then explore the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 5th Assessment Report to learn more about how climate scientists handle uncertainty in models.

 

 

SWBAT:
  • Understand that scientists use multiple models to predict the future of Earth’s climate.

  • Explain the importance of agreed-upon language for uncertainty.

  • Understand that specifics may be uncertain, even while the overall trend is very clear.

Skills:
  • Graph reading

  • Close reading of scientific text

  • Group communication

Standards:
  • HS-ESS3-5 Analyze the results from global climate models.

  • RST.11-12.2 Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; summarize complex concepts, processes, or information presented in a text.

Disciplinary core ideas:
  • ESS2.A Earth Materials and Systems

  • ESS2.D Weather and Climate

  • ESS3.C Human Impacts on Earth Systems

     

What is included in this Educator Guide
  1. How to use TILclimate Educator Guides (Download)
     
  2. Teacher pages (Download)
    • Includes materials, discussion questions, background resources, and adaptation suggestions for science, social science, and ELA teachers
       
  3. Student pages (Download)
    • NOAA Beat the Uncertainty hands-on game

    • Reading: Representative Concentration Pathways

    • Reading: IPCC Confidence and Likelihood

    • Excerpts from IPCC Summary for Policymakers

 

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