Climate Projections

• 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.

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.

Differentiation

• This course provides two levels of learning. Use the button in the top left of the page to toggle between "Simple" and "Advanced". The "Simple" setting is recommended for middle school students, while the "Advanced" setting is recommended for high school students.
• 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.
  

This resource addresses the listed standards. To fully meet standards, search for more related resources.