Warming Planet
Data, Graphs, and Maps
Grades6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12Earth and Space Sciences, Geography
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What it is
- This interactive timelapse displays the effects of rising temperatures in nine locations around the world to illustrate the global challenges of climate change.
- Students will view images of melting glaciers and ice sheets, depleting water sources, wildfires, and hurricanes.
- For each location, the images are accompanied by a short text description.
Teaching tips
Positives
- The resource includes many impactful visuals.
- Students learn about a variety of negative effects of rising global temperatures.
Additional Prerequisites
- Students should be familiar with keywords such as glacier, sea level rise, drought, climate change, and global warming.
- Students should be comfortable interpreting satellite imagery.
Differentiation
- After exploring the resource, students can be challenged to identify another location experiencing the effects of rising global temperatures and present it to the class.
- This can be used as a cooperative learning activity where groups research the different topics in the resource (receding glaciers, droughts, wildfires, extreme weather, etc.) and present their findings to the class.
- Science classes can use this resource when learning about landforms, regional climates, and climate change.
- Geography classes can use this resource to explore the environmental characteristics of various places around the world and how these characteristics are changing over time.
From the scientist review
Visuals of the Earth's features such as glaciers, ice sheets, oceans, etc. are warming as a result of increasing surface temperatures. Insightful for students to zoom in and gain insights. Recommended for teaching.
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