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Historical Climate Change enrichment lesson
Provided by: NERC GW4+ DLTP
Activity type(s): Lesson plan, Classroom activity, Subject knowledge booster
Duration: 20 – 60 minutes
Suitable for ages: 7-11 years old, 11-14 years old
Description:
PowerPoint presentation that can be used to enrich climate change lessons with the aim of showing pupils:
• data varies with seasons,
• there are differences between locations
• it’s hard to see a trend
• if we add a trendline there’s a clear pattern
• how much it warms where they are compared to the 1.1oC globally
• it matters when the timeline starts.
Included: PowerPoint presentation for use in the classroom plus background documents: Information for teachers, definitions and Excel table of data used.
https://www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/science-resources-for-ks3
Links to activity files: https://earth-science.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/formidable/5/Historical-Climate-Pack-English.zip
Subject areas:
- Atmosphere
- Climate change
- Environments
- Human impact
- Conditions for life on Earth
- Geographical skills
- People and places
- Energy and the environment
- Analysis and evaluation
- Development of scientific thinking
- Investigation
- Vocabulary, units, symbols and nomenclature
- Data presentation
Keywords: climate change data
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