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Does Climate Change Exist? Healthy Skepticism? Debating the Truth, Evidence, and Certainty of Climate Change

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study climate change and the arguments of scientists that it exists.  In this climate change lesson students complete a class activity and answer questions.  
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PLATE MOVEMENTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils label three geological maps with continents provided to analyze the relationships between the movement of tectonic plates and the changes in the climate. In small groups, they discuss their findings and form hypotheses about the...
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Climatic Changes

For Students 6th - 8th
In this weather worksheet, students read an excerpt describing the climate and extinction. Then they explain what the climate was like during the Age of Dinosaurs. Students also determine some factors that affected the climate during...
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Global Warming or Climate Change?

For Students 4th - 6th
In this online interactive global warming and climate change learning exercise, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions regarding the information included in the provided paragraphs.
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Global Warming or Climate Change?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this online interactive global warming and climate change learning exercise, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions regarding the information included in the provided paragraphs.
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Is Climate Change Good for Frogs?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students fill out a chart on how climate change would affect them and things around them. In this climate change lesson plan, students discuss how global warming affects them and amphibians and then fill out the chart that goes with it.
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Global Warming Part 2: Climate Change

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine natural climate fluctuations of the Earth and compare climate change in last 100 years to earlier climate changes. From this data students will begin to define current issues related to global warming.
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Environment: Understanding Climate Impacts

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate the potential environmental consequences of climate change. They conduct Internet research to discover how climate change may impact certain species of animals and present their findings in a poster or skit. Students...
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Climate Change-Boon or Bust for Northern Waters?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore about and evaluate the potential impacts of climate change on northern hydrological systems. They work in small groups, research the background to climate change in the north with a particular focus on lakes and rivers.
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What is Climate Change?

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students research climate change. In this environmental lesson, students view a PowerPoint slideshow about climate change and identify the ways that climate change affects life on Earth.
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Climate Comparison

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore climate regions. In this climate activity, students examine the climate regions of Alaska as well as the state of Hawaii. Students research selected Internet sources to gather information regarding the climates present...
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Ecosystems and Climate

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students examine climatic effects on ecosystems. They plant tomatoes and observe the differences in plant growth with differences in light. They create picture collages of plants, animals, and insects found in each climate of the U.S.
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Climate Watch

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students participate in a national survey of biological indicators of climate change by gathering and submitting data on local plants and animals.
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What is Climate?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the differences between climate and weather. In this introductory lesson of a climate unit, students discuss the vocabulary and concepts associated with weather and climate. They build their information base for the...
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Climate Survival

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students use information about different world climate regions to plan how to survive in a particular climate zone for one year. They present their survival plans.
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How are People Changing the Climate: Basics

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this climate change worksheet, learners answer a series of questions about climate change. Students have multiple choice options for six online quiz questions
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Climate in Our Back Yard

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students construct a "A Year in Pennsylvania" poster on which they creatively describe at least three examples of how the climate they live in shapes their lives during every season of the year.
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Understanding Climate

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create two dioramas out of household materials to compare the influence of various factors that impact climate. Each group discuss how the change in factors influenced the climate, flora, and fauna of their area.
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Climate Change

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students define and associate words with the topic of climate change while completing associated worksheets. They read and discuss articles about climate change including the effects of global warming and the greenhouse effect.
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World Geography: Climate Change Round Table

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are able to explain the suspected causes of relatively recent climate changes, specifically the observed global warming. They discuss how unusual or extreme global warming disrupts the balance of the earth's geo-spheres.
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A Climate Conundrum

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study climate change and how it would affect our lives.  In this climate lesson students view a video then divide into groups and discuss possible solutions.
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Factors That Affect Climate

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use captured portions of the Internet ("mininets") to perform research into climate. They create graphs of the data recorded using latitude as the independent variable and temperature as the dependent variable.
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The Little Ice Age - Understanding Climate and Climate Change

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders receive data about tree ring records, solar activity, and volcanic eruptions during the Little Ice Age (1350-1850). From this data, they draw conclusions about possible natural causes of climate change
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Climate Types

For Students 6th - 8th
In this weather worksheet, middle schoolers identify the type of vegetation found in particular regions across the United States. Then they list the six groups of climates in the Köppen Classification System. Students also describe the...

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