Global Warming

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Driving Question: It’s Cold and there is lots of snow in the mountains. Is Global Warming Really Happening?

MS-ESS3-5. Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.

Vocabulary: Carbon dioxide, climate, cold climate, dry climate, elevation, geography, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, Gulf Stream, insulation, latitude, phytoplankton, polar climate, temperate climate, tropical climate, water vapor, weather.

Google Doc's Vocabulary Matrix Template

Use the Google Doc

Teachers: make your own 'Google Form' for easier grading.

1. Watch the Edpuzzle video and answer the questions:

2. ScienceFlix: Climate Change (Not a JWMS student? Click here)

Login and then come back and click the link again. Turn on the read aloud and answer the following questions.

a. Why are sea levels rising?

b. What are the dangers?

c. What can be done?

3. Google Doc: Global Warming

a. What are the seven things you should know about climate change?

4. Watch the video and answer the following questions:

a. What causes global warming?

b. What is the main source of excess Greenhouse gases? Why?

c. What is another significant source of Greenhouse gases? Why?

d. What are the consequences of global warming?

5. ScienceFlix: Climate ChangeLogin and then come back and click the link again. Click on the "Read it!" and answer the following questions. (Don't have ScienceFlix click here)

a. The primary human activity that leads to climate change is _____?

b. Fossil fuels include coal, oil, and gasoline. When these fuels are burned, they release ____.

c. True or False: For thousands of years, the greenhouse effect hardly changed.

d. True or False: There is some debate as to how much of climate change is caused by humans. Some people who doubt that human activities cause climate change say that it could be due to changes in the Sun's output. But in 2007 a study revealed that the Sun's output has been decreasing since 1985. In contrast, global temperatures have been rising quickly.

6. Changes in the Ozone Layer - watch the video and read the article and answer the following question.

a. What is the ozone layer?

b. How is the ozone layer formed?

c. Why do we need the ozone layer?

d. How did science help save the ozone layer?

7. Watch the Edpuzzle and answer the questions

8. Adventure Quest Backpack: Using Google Docs make a photo collage of the current effects of global warming in the desert. Include pictures of what is causing the desert to become warmer earlier in the year. Explain why you used each picture in your collage.

Extras

If extra time do the activities below.

Bill Nye's: ClimateLab Game

BrainPop: Global Warming