Fourth National Climate Assessment (2018) - Northeast
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Provided by: CLEAN|Published on: March 9, 2024
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Synopsis
- This teacher's guide incorporates the National Climate Assessment's Northeast Region chapter into the classroom through related lessons, activities, discussion questions, videos, and readings.
- The guide summarizes key messages, provides references, explains figures, and suggests chapters of the report for teachers to focus on during instruction.
- This chapter includes West Virginia in the U.S. Northeast region.
Subjects: Biology, Earth and Space Sciences, Civics
Authors: Lee-Frankel-Goldwater
Region: North America, USA - Northeast, USA - South, United States, New Jersey, Vermont, Connecticut, New York, Maine, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- Teachers can plan an entire unit based on the National Climate Assessment and its topics using this guide or choose one or two lessons that best fit their curriculum.
- The various topics covered in the assessment and this guide allow teachers to present students with a well-rounded climate knowledge base.
Additional Prerequisites
- Under Key Message 2, the lessons "Keeping Watch on Coral Reefs" and "Aerial Photography and Mapping Lesson Plan: Images of Katrina" are no longer available in the collection, and the link for the video "High Tide in Dorchester" is broken.
- Under Key Message 3, the link to "Your Family's Carbon Footprint" is broken.
- Under Key Message 4, the lesson plans "Global Warming Webquest" and "Climate Change and Human Health" are no longer available in the collection.
- Under Key Message 5, the video "A Bangladesh Case Study" is no longer available in the collection.
Differentiation
- Teachers can use the guiding questions for class discussion and journaling or assign each question to a small group of students to investigate and report on.
- Math classes can explore the National Climate Assessment by analyzing the highlighted figures and interpreting the data.
- Advanced students can split into five groups to create a presentation summarizing the 5 Key Messages covered in the report, using the guiding questions to facilitate their research.
- For younger students, consider just using the related lessons and resources rather than having them dig into the report.
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