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Assessing Tweet Claims

Assessing Tweet Claims

Assessment

Presentation

Science

6th - 8th Grade

Medium

NGSS
MS-ESS3-5, MS-LS1-6, MS-LS2-5

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Created by

Jon Steenbeke

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4 Slides • 3 Questions

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Assessing Tweet Claims

By Jon Steenbeke

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The Tweet

Some text here about the topic of discussion

media

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The Claims

Subject | Subject

Some text here about the topic of discussion

  • Climate change creates floods, typhoons, landslides, droughts, and wildfires.

  • Climate change is having effects all over the world.

  • We need to protect our environment by planting more trees to prevent air pollution.

  • We need to plant more trees to prevent flooding.

  • Climate change is caused by air pollution.

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Multiple Choice

Which claim is the most accurate?

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Climate change creates floods, typhoons, landslides, droughts, and wildfires.

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We need to protect our environment by planting more trees to prevent air pollution.

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We need to plant more trees to prevent flooding.

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Climate change is caused by air pollution.

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Climate change is having effects all over the world.

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Rewriting Inaccurate Claims

Example: Climate change creates floods, typhoons, landslides, droughts, and wildfires.

Natural disasters occurred ​before we added extra carbon into our system but they are becoming worse as we add more GHGs into the atmosphere. We call this 'climate change'.

Some text here about the topic of discussion

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Open Ended

Rewrite this claim or add other ideas to make it more accurate:

We need to protect our environment by planting more trees to prevent air pollution.

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Open Ended

Rewrite this claim or add other ideas to make it more accurate:

Climate change is caused by air pollution.

Assessing Tweet Claims

By Jon Steenbeke

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