Let's create continuous conversations about climate change education: Spreading the Sediment of Science!

Changing Climate: Our Future, Our Choice

Provided by: Paleontological Research Institution |Published on: June 30, 2022

Articles/Websites Grades 6-8, 9-12

Synopsis

This online museum interactive exhibit uses text, photographs, interactive 3-D models, virtual reality capability, interactive maps, timelines, presentations, infographics, and animations to teach students about climate change.
Students can work their way through sections on climate history, climate proxies, the greenhouse effect, climate impacts, and climate solutions.

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Subjects: Biology, Earth and Space Sciences

Authors: Paleontological Research Institution

Region: North America, United States, Global

Languages: English

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Positives

This online exhibit is engaging and well-designed.
The exhibit is accessible for students who do not know much about climate change, but also detailed enough to appeal to students who have a broad knowledge of the subject.

Additional Prerequisites

Teachers should be aware that the Share section allows students to submit a response about what climate change means to them, along with their first and last name. Students under 13 years old must supply a guardian's email address to submit a response.

Differentiation

This resource is well suited for self-paced learning. Using their own devices, students can work their way through each section and then write a short paragraph about something in the exhibit that they already knew about and something they learned from the exhibit.
Science teachers could use each of the sections individually to teach about a specific topic (e.g., climate proxies, the greenhouse effect).
Other resources on this topic include this interactive textbook lesson on climate history, this lesson on the basics of Earth's climate and atmosphere, and this video on climate solutions.

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About the Partner Provider

Paleontological Research Institution

Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) is a national leader in Earth systems science education. They strive to help make sense of the present and potential future climate change, while also increasing understanding of global change in Earth’s past. Their programs focus on systems thinking, understanding scale and learning in your own backyard.