Earth and Environmental Science · Week 17 · Climate and Extreme Heat
From Worry to Action
Explaining how human activity and Earth systems interact and practicing a worry to action routine for climate stress.
- Students will
- Students explain how human activity and Earth systems affect each other, calculate how much carbon dioxide one choice adds or saves in a year, and describe an action that reduces one impact.
- SEL skill
- Turn a worry into one realistic action step using a worry to action routine
- What it looks like
- Students use a worry to action routine to manage climate stress and choose one realistic step.
- Content focus
- From Worry to Action
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-management
Self-management is steering your feelings, thoughts, and actions in a way that helps you reach what you are working toward. More self-management activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- HS-ESS3-6: High School Earth and Space Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP6 Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Crosscutting concept: CCC4 Systems and system models
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle II: People influence natural systems
- Literacy in science: WHST.11-12.2 Write informative and explanatory texts, including scientific procedures and processes.
- Traditional course: Earth and Environmental Science
Fits these textbook chapters
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- Groundwater Overdraft Self-managementComputing aquifer withdrawals and recharge and planning a personal habit that stays in balance like a budget.
- Biodiversity on the Edge Self-managementDesigning a solution to protect Coachella Valley fringe toed lizard habitat and sticking with a complex problem.
- Flash Floods in the Desert Self-managementInvestigating why dry desert soil sheds water and practicing calm, step by step decisions in emergencies.
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