Author: Kathleen Albrecht
email: kalbrecht@franklinboe.org
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Grade Levels:
fifth
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Subjects:
science
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Themes or Keywords : global warming, climate changes | Objectives : 1. To define the term global warming.
2. To find out how global warming affects me.
3. To find out how global warming affects the world.
4. To determine how global warming affects the world's climate.
5. To discover if an "ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE" due to globalwarming can cause dramatic and terrifying storms.
6. To identify 10 ways thaat YOU can prevent global warming.
| Materials : - Computer with Internet access
- Poster Board
- Drawing paper
- art supplies
| Introductory Questions : - Let's visit the world through the Internet and find out if people are noticing
- changes in their environment.......coastlines that are slowly diminishing,
- changes in temperatures, and more violent storms than in years past.
- Global Warming affects us all throughout the world! Let's investigate.....
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| Introductory Activity : Go to: www.undoit.org/
Look up ?What is global warming? and watch the video that explains it
in graphics.
| Body : PART 1:
On that same page, visit the link called ?How could global warming affect me?? Using the interactive map, find your region of the United States, and make a poster of the five impacts on the population when living in your region.
PART 2:
Go to: www.undoit.org
Link to ?What is global warming??
Link to ?The Big Picture?. After viewing the slide show, write an essay on your reaction to this vivid picture of what is happening to our world.
| Conclusion Activity : Students will create a poster to be displayed in the hallways noting the 10 things that an individual can do to prevent global warming. Education is the only way that we can prevent the new generation from making the mistakes of the previous generation. We must all take part in saving our planet!
Student Activity 6:
Go to: www.net.org
Link to Global Warming
Link to ?You Can Make A Difference?
Make a poster of the ?Top 10 things YOU can do to help reduce global warming pollution?. We can then tell our school how each and everyone of us can help save our planet!
| Vocabulary Words : - atmosphere, global, warming, climate,
- region, react
| Evaluation Activity : Students will be creating a booklet with each activity. Each assignment will be graded within a rubric cube, and averaged out for a final grade.
| Internet Resources Referenced in this Lesson : www.climatehotmap.org
yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content.Climate.html
www.pewclimate.org/
www.net.org
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The author has provided a follow up to this lesson : The Early Signs that global warming is affecting our climate
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