The prompts for each term include both a definition and a fill-in-the-blank sentence.
If students get stuck, they can use up to eight hints to reveal a letter.
Additional Prerequisites
Students should know the states of matter and that our atmosphere is made up of gases.
Students should be familiar with the terms emissions, atmosphere, agriculture, livestock, global warming, fossil fuels, and protein.
Differentiation
This game can either serve as a review of a lesson on greenhouse gases and agriculture, or can be used as an introduction to see what students already know.
After doing this crossword, students in health classes can talk about the importance of protein in a diet and can list alternatives to beef and other meats, including those mentioned in the crossword and from students' own ideas or research.
Students in science classes can use this crossword to launch or review a lesson on cellular respiration, nutrition, the carbon cycle, energy losses as you move up a trophic pyramid, or the impacts of eating higher on the food chain.
Social studies classes can discuss the economic, health, and moral issues related to industrial livestock production, and the industry's role in decision-making regarding subsidies, incentives, regulations, or marketing of those products.
The terms in the crossword should be defined for English language learners prior to playing the game.
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Green Guardians
Our mission is to promote K-12 environmental literacy as a project-based, multi-disciplinary 21st century learning initiative that engages students, parents, teachers, educators, schools, community-based partners and school districts committed to a sustainable and equitable future.
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