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6th Grade Weather and Climate Unit

Description: 

In this part of the unit, students are exploring how global temperatures have changed over the past hundred years.  Students will examine tables and graphs about global temperatures and carbon dioxide levels, human consumption of food, and human consumption of natural resources.  They will find patterns in the graphs.  Based on this data, students will construct an argument about how human activities (increase in population and consumption of natural resources) cause global temperatures to increase.

 

Learning Targets: 
Students will be able to ask questions to explore changes in global temperatures over the past 100 years.
Students will be able to explain how the greenhouse effect causes global temperatures to rise.
Students will be able to analyze tables and graphs of climate and population data to find patterns in the data.
Students will be able to analyze human use of natural resources to find patterns in the data.
Students will be able to explain how human activities cause the rise in global temperatures.
Link: 
6th Grade Weather and Climate Unit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10JaIHGKw4tW0Eeao2QHmFq6TrI1BlvIAbF2RbJl5szA/edit
Author: 
MichelleL
Content Area: 
Science
Environmental Science
Language: 
English
Resource Type: 
Unit
Licensing: 
Creative Commons Licence
Grade: 
6-8
Next Generation and Michigan Science
Tags: 
climate change
6th grade
environment
environmental science
graphs
Climate
NGSS
greenhouse gases
population
human
greenhouse effect
data analysis

How are the standards/objectives assessed?

Formative assessment occurs in the face to face and virtual realm.  Face to face formative assessment is in the form of class discussion, a lab on the greenhouse effect, and daily (or almost daily) exit slips on the day's learning target.  In terms of the online environment, students will show their understanding through an online webquest, a reflection on a movie clip using Padlet, and an analysis of climate/population/natural resource data in Google classroom.  Students will also watch videos for homework and complete video notes at home, which will be reviewed in class the next day.

For a summative assessment, students will make a PSA using iMovie.  In this PSA, students will explain what climate change is and how human activities cause global temperatures to rise. 

What concepts or procedures are being explained or demonstrated in this lesson object?

In this part of the unit, students are exploring how global temperatures have changed over the past hundred years.  Students will examine tables and graphs about global temperatures and carbon dioxide levels, human consumption of food, and human consumption of natural resources.  They will find patterns in the graphs.  Based on this data, students will construct an argument about how human activities (increase in population and consumption of natural resources) cause global temperatures to increase.

What was your experience, both successes and challenges, using this lesson object with your students?

I have never used this with students before, but I plan to later this school year.  I would recommend becoming familiar with Google classroom before the unit begins because there are quite a few graphs and links to be posted in Google classroom.  I would also recommend making sample videos so that students are very familiar with your expectations when they begin working on their own PSA.