Earth and Environmental Science · Week 13 · Climate and Extreme Heat
Reading Climate Clues
Analyzing ice core and tree ring evidence of past climates and noticing the feelings that arise when data points to change.
- Students will
- Students analyze ice core and tree ring evidence to describe past climate change, identify patterns in the data, and use a model of incoming and outgoing energy to explain how carbon dioxide changes climate.
- SEL skill
- Name the feelings that arise when data points to change and say how they affect your thinking
- What it looks like
- Students recognize the emotions that arise when data points to change and name them accurately.
- Content focus
- Reading Climate Clues
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
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Standards
- HS-ESS2-4: High School Earth and Space Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP4 Analyzing and interpreting data
- Crosscutting concept: CCC2 Cause and effect
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle III: Natural systems change in ways people benefit from and can influence
- Literacy in science: RST.11-12.7 Translate between quantitative or technical information in words, tables, graphs, and equations.
- Traditional course: Earth and Environmental Science
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