What is Climate Change?

Teacher Name
Subject Area
Topic

Miss Webb
Science 20
Unit C: The Changing Earth

One class
Grade 11

GLO 4: Students will analyze the evidence of, and assess the explanations for,
natural variations in Earths climate over the last two million years
Specific Learner
Outcome(s)
Taken from
Alberta Program
of Studies

SLO:
20-C4.1k describe the geologic evidence for repeated glaciation over large areas of
Canada and in their local area
20-C4.2k explain how ice cores from polar icecaps provide evidence of warming
and cooling in the past hundred thousand years

Learning
Objectives
What do you want
your students to
learn?
Assessment
How will you know
your students
have learned?
Materials
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will you need?

Introduction

Body

Closure

Students will develop and critically think about controversial topics involving climate.
Students will evidence an understanding of basic mechanisms that are driving
climate change, like anthropogenic activity and greenhouse gases.
Students will be formatively assessed through a KWL, a discussion, and a showme-you-know activity.
-SmartBoard
- Individual laptops
This lesson will begin with a pre-assessment using an online KWL web tool. This
lesson will occur on the SmartBoard where we will begin to discuss What is Climate
Change. This KWL will be a driving force in materials that we focus more on and
less on. (15 minutes)
After completing the KWL students will participate in two formative discussion
activities researching and answering two discussion questions I will pose to them.
This will act as a review and refresher for some, whereas, this will be new to some
students too. The discussion forum will take place on the classroom board of
Edmodo.
- I will begin by asking students to login into their Edmodo; students will find a
discussion board with links to two videos and some online reading tools.
Once students have read and watched the videos they will post in their
online discussion board and comment on one anothers.
(25 minutes)
In closing I will discuss all the materials the students watched/read. During this
discussion I will review the video and reading, what the author was saying, and
pose questions to the students. I will then share my expectations with the students
for the following day before dismissing them (10 minutes).