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Fourth National Climate Assessment (2018) - Northeast

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.

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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

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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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