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Climate Projections

Provided by: ClimateScience |Published on: April 27, 2021

Interactive Media Grades 6-8, 9-12

Synopsis

This self-paced course on climate projections features sections on climate models, the water cycle, tropical climate, tipping points, global warming, and sea level rise.
This course contains text, interactive questions, infographics, links to references, current problems, and an assessment.

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Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, Computer Science

Authors: ClimateScience

Region: Global

Languages: English

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Positives

This course is very easy for students to navigate.
Students earn a certificate if they complete the course.

Additional Prerequisites

This course is part of a series of climate change courses from ClimateScience.
Students should have a basic understanding of climate change prior to beginning this course on climate predictions.
Students will need a computer and Internet connection to use the interactive features.
Teachers and students will need to enroll and create a free account to use the course and save their progress.

Differentiation

Stronger students can spend time reading and exploring any of the links to actual scientific papers.
Students can proceed through this course at their own pace.
Cross-curricular connections could be made with social studies, geography, and civics classes when discussing the current and projected effects of climate change on human communities.
This could be a great resource for computer science or programming classes as well.
Other resources related to this topic include this interactive resource on paleoclimate, this interactive course on the impacts of climate change, this video on using ice core data, and this article on using ice cores to determine temperatures of the past.

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ClimateScience

ClimateScience inspires young talents to seek careers in fields where they contribute to climate solutions. By providing beautifully illustrated, understandable, science-based educational content for free for everyone, they are building the fundamentals for Climate Education.