Future Climate Predictions for Oregon Counties

• This resource provides detailed reports for most counties in Oregon, giving projections for various weather events and environmental changes due to climate change.
• The files are downloadable and include a variety of graphs, data, and graphics.
  

Positives

• The reports contain a table of contents, summary, and images to aid in comprehension.
• Students can see how the effects of climate change vary in different regions, even within one state.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• You can download the reports to use offline or share them with students that don't have access to the Internet.
• Because the reports are more than 20 pages, you may want to consider using a specific section that closely relates to your lesson or divide up the reading.
  
• Students should know how to read graphs and charts.
  

Differentiation

• Language arts classes can use any of these papers for lessons relating to writing scientific reports, comprehending factual reporting, or nonfiction reading strategies.
• Science classes can use various sections of the reports to analyze the predicted environmental changes, discuss how the changes may affect animal and plant communities, and then estimate which solutions will be most effective to protect the environments and communities considered.
• Math classes can use the many graphs and charts for lessons about rate of change calculations, functions, or data analysis.
• Students with learning differences or English language learners may need some vocabulary terms defined, and they may want to use a graphic organizer to take notes as they read.
  

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