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Let's create continuous conversations about climate change education: Spreading the Sediment of Science!
What Is Climate Change?
Provided by: Crash Course |Published on: April 27, 2021
Videos Grades 6-8, 9-12
Synopsis
- This information-dense video describes many lines of evidence for anthropogenic climate change, including glacial retreat, ice core data, sea level rise, and changes in weather patterns.
- Historic global climate patterns are explained in this video, along with the causes and implications of anthropogenic climate change.
- This video also details the human impacts of the climate crisis such as migration, adaptation, and property loss.
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, Geography
Authors: Crash Course
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This video comprehensively covers evidence for climate change, paleoclimatology, and the causes and implications of climate change.
Additional Prerequisites
- This video is dense with scientific vocabulary and concepts. Necessary background knowledge includes a basic understanding of weather, glaciers, climate, Earth history, and scientific evidence.
Differentiation
- This video could be broken up into the following different sections for viewing and summarizing: evidence for climate change, historic global climate change, and implications of climate change.
- Students could create a KWL chart and fill in the chart before, during, and after they view the video.
- Teachers could create a viewing guide with key questions for understanding to support student comprehension.
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