MIT Climate Primer: Climate Change

• This interactive resource contains information about historic climate conditions on Earth, factors that affect global climate, and future predictions of global climate change based on climate models. 
• Students will be engaged with readings, animated graphs, read-aloud features, videos, and questions to check for understanding.
  

Positives

• It is engaging, interactive, and applicable to a diversity of learning styles due to the variety of media presented. 
• It has a vast historical scope and will encourage students to think broadly about our impact on the global climate. 
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be at a high school reading level and have a baseline ability to interpret and analyze data. 
• Students should have basic knowledge of Earth's motions, biological evolution, and the greenhouse effect. 
  

Differentiation

• There are three videos over ten minutes in length, so you could have students get in groups to watch one and then have someone from each group present the information to the class. 
• Interdisciplinary connections can be made between the changing chemistry of the atmosphere and the biological impacts that resulted. 
• The figures and charts are all downloadable and there is a PDF version of the entire webpage. 
• The read-along feature provides highlighted text as the audio file plays, which may be helpful for some learners. 
• Other related resources include MIT Climate Primer: Climate Science and Global Climate Change Model: Making Predictions About Future Climate.
  

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