Climate Connection Resources
Main Student Resources
Everyone Completes
Footprint Calculator: Complete this online survey to learn more about your own energy use. Make note of your results so that you can use them again.
Personal Choice Worksheet: Who are you? Who will you be? Make some choices about the lifestyle you are living.
Teams or Individuals Complete
Climate Action Plan Individual: Use this worksheet to help collect the information needed to complete this laboratory
Climate Action
Plan Group: Use this worksheet to help collect the
information needed to complete this laboratory
Climate Connection
Team Planner:
Climate Connection Individual Rubric: Look over the parts of the lab to find out exactly how you will be graded.
Climate Connection Group Rubric: Look over the parts of the lab to find out exactly how you will be graded.
Individual and Team Characters
SRES Characters and Lifestyles: Take a look at all the different characters from around the world that are available to choose from.
SRES Lifestyle Choice
Powerpoint: Look at summary of the world in
2100 if you make the lifestyle choice your character makes.
SRES Scenario
Results: Look at a map summary of the world in 2100
if you make the lifestyle choice your character makes.
Map Modeling Resources:
Click on the following maps to see how the earth's temperature might change in the future depending on the choices we make about burning fossil fuels (things like, Coal, Oil and Gas)
High Fossil Fuel Emissions: What might happen to temperatures if Carbon levels in the atmosphere continue to rise at high levels
Medium Fossil Fuel Emissions: What might happen to temperatures if Carbon levels in the atmosphere continue to rise at medium levels
Low Fossil Fuel Emissions: What might happen to temperatures if Carbon levels in the atmosphere continue to rise at low levels
Additional Resources
NASA Kids: REQUIRED READING - Read over each of the "What would you like to know?" sections for reasearch homework.
AND MORE!: Fun animations to show and change the ATMOSPHERE and GASSES in it.
NASA Resources - What are the up to date
measurements about the climate
Climate Action Extension: An optional 25 pt. assignment that you can't fail! (to learn from)
How to Make a Google Pushpin: Use these instructions and video to complete the final part of this activity, a final presentation using Google Earth
View here to see how to choose a character and understand more about their role
View below to learn how to give you characters final lifestyle points
View below to locate your characters location and images of the climate
View below for your Carbon Applet and review Map Modeling Resources
Click here to go directly to the Prezi featured in the following video.
Create your Prezi
Watch below to help learn how to create your Google Eather Placemark
What do scientists and the general public think about this topic?
Follow this link to a research report about Examining the Scientific Consensus on Climate science
