Climate Change Activity

Climate Change Activity

By M Greene

Warm Up

Free write for five minutes in response to the term “climate change.”

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Partner Up

After you are done writing, turn to your partner and read to each other. Then work together to write a collaborative summary in which they combine their ideas.

Open Ended

What did we come up with?

Now as a whole

• Create a working definition of climate change.

• Describe the causes of climate change.

• Describe the potential effects of climate change.

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​Question to answer

• How has global climate change affected the local climate and geography of the region discussed in your article?

• How have these changes affected the people living there?

• How have the people tried to adapt to climate change’s effects?

• All of these articles include images which were selected to have an impact on the reader. What do these images show? Which image is the most powerful? Describe it and discuss what makes it an effective image.

• Why is this story important for the world to know?

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How Climate Change Is Upending Life Around the World - The New York Times

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