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Provided by: OER Project |Published on: August 14, 2025
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Synopsis
In this module from the OER Project: Climate, students will work with climate change-related terms through games and other activities.
Students will explore commonly misused words, play a vocabulary game, create trivia questions, and complete a Mad Libs to become more familiar with and proficient in climate change vocabulary.
This is one of many lessons in the online Climate course by OER Project.
This module includes multiple opportunities for students to interact with each other.
Students will love coming up with trivia questions to stump their classmates.
Prerequisites
Teachers will need to assemble the spinners for the vocabulary game ahead of time.
This module is intended for students who are already familiar with climate change and some related terms.
Differentiation & Implementation
For the Mad Libs activity, students may benefit from a printed copy or knowing how to use strikethrough in a document editor to use the process of elimination and have a visual representation of unused words in the word bank.
In the spirit of Mad Libs, teachers can ask students to come up with three adjectives, five nouns, and an adverb ahead of time, without seeing the paragraph they will be used in. Students can then write their pre-selected words in and, after seeing the silly version, make corrections so the paragraph makes more sense.
These activities can be used to break up a unit exploring climate change.
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OER Project
OER Project equips teachers with free, innovative curricula and teaching tools that spark curiosity and inspire critical thinking in students. Our courses place student inquiry at the center of learning, and are designed to be adaptable across age levels and state standards.
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