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Evaluating Natural and Human Effects on Earth's Climate
Provided by: My NASA Data |Published on: April 18, 2025
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Synopsis
This mini-lesson or bell ringer activity engages students with a bar graph of human and natural causes of radiative forcings since 1750 in order to understand the effects of human activities on the climate.
This resource includes a link to the Earth System Data Explorer, an interactive tool that allows students to further explore factors that contribute to climate change around the world.
The Earth System Data Explorer contains a video tutorial which can be helpful to preview in advance.
Differentiation & Implementation
Discuss the causes of climate change in more depth with your students using this resource.
Use this activity as a bell ringer before this science lesson on modeling climate change solutions.
Use this activity as a bell ringer before this math lesson on global temperature rises.
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My NASA Data
NASA offers petabytes of global Earth science data collected from satellites, but accessing these data in a traditional (or virtual) science classroom can be tricky. Since 2004, My NASA Data has supported students and teachers of grades 3-12 in analyzing and interpreting NASA mission data.
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