Warming Planet

Provided by: Google Earth |Published on: April 27, 2021

Data, Graphs, and Maps

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Synopsis

This interactive timelapse displays the effects of rising temperatures in nine locations around the world to illustrate the global challenges of climate change.
Students will view images of melting glaciers and ice sheets, depleting water sources, wildfires, and hurricanes.
For each location, the images are accompanied by a short text description.

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Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, Geography

Authors: Google Earth

Region: Global

Languages: English

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Positives

The resource includes many impactful visuals.
Students learn about a variety of negative effects of rising global temperatures.

Additional Prerequisites

Students should be familiar with keywords such as glacier, sea level rise, drought, climate change, and global warming.
Students should be comfortable interpreting satellite imagery.

Differentiation

After exploring the resource, students can be challenged to identify another location experiencing the effects of rising global temperatures and present it to the class.
This can be used as a cooperative learning activity where groups research the different topics in the resource (receding glaciers, droughts, wildfires, extreme weather, etc.) and present their findings to the class.
Science classes can use this resource when learning about landforms, regional climates, and climate change.
Geography classes can use this resource to explore the environmental characteristics of various places around the world and how these characteristics are changing over time.

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