Warming Planet

• This interactive timelapse displays the effects of rising temperatures in nine locations around the world to illustrate the global challenges of climate change.
• Students will view images of melting glaciers and ice sheets, depleting water sources, wildfires, and hurricanes.
• For each location, the images are accompanied by a short text description.

Positives

• The resource includes many impactful visuals.
• Students learn about a variety of negative effects of rising global temperatures.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar with keywords such as glacier, sea level rise, drought, climate change, and global warming.
• Students should be comfortable interpreting satellite imagery.

Differentiation

• After exploring the resource, students can be challenged to identify another location experiencing the effects of rising global temperatures and present it to the class.
• This can be used as a cooperative learning activity where groups research the different topics in the resource (receding glaciers, droughts, wildfires, extreme weather, etc.) and present their findings to the class.
• Science classes can use this resource when learning about landforms, regional climates, and climate change.
• Geography classes can use this resource to explore the environmental characteristics of various places around the world and how these characteristics are changing over time.

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