2.6. Classroom Connections

You will not turn in anything now for this section, but use these resources and questions to help develop your culminating project, described in Lesson 5.

Tip: Look for resources you want to use. Don't feel the need to review all of them thoroughly. 

This lesson began with discussion of Earth’s climate as a complex system with many interacting parts.

• How might you introduce your students to the systems thinking that is essential to understanding climate change and its key role in challenges to sustainability? 

Watch these two short videos from NASA.

Real World: Earth System Science- 

Launchpad: Systems Science-

• Could you use one or both of these videos to introduce your students to systems thinking? Briefly explain your answer in your journal.
  

Review the document that shows the alignment to the standards.

• Which standards do you think this content best supports? 

Many of the concepts discussed in this lesson and in Lessons 3 and 4
are addressed on NASA Climate Kids and EPA A Student’s Guide to Global Climate Change web sites designed for young students. 

Finally, the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) (http://cleanet.org/index.html) offers a searchable, reviewed collection of educational resources you can use to help your students understand core ideas in climate and energy science.