Global Climate Change Real Data

The education team from The Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets has created a portal that allows educators to access real time data for K-12 grade levels. Teacher can use this data ... See More

The education team from The Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets has created a portal that allows educators to access real time data for K-12 grade levels. Teacher can use this data to allow students to view the data, make observations, ask questions, create generalizations and share them with other students. Students can build their understanding of global climate change and at the same time understand the nature of science.

Inquiry using real Global Climate Change Data

This is an excellent resource if you want to bring real global climate change data into your classroom for your students to analyze. The author presents a brief description of resources to ... See More

This is an excellent resource if you want to bring real global climate change data into your classroom for your students to analyze. The author presents a brief description of resources to teach an inquiry based lesson plan on global climate change using scientific data. A sample lesson plan sequence is provided. The author refers teachers to the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), which studies the impact of climate change on polar ice sheets. CReSIS has created a website to connect educators with climate change data, the K-12 Data portal. One correction, the website provided for the K-12 Data Portal in this article is no longer an active link. The CReSIS K-12 Data Portal can now be found at https://cms.cresis.ku.edu/education/k-12/online-data-portal. Background information and lesson plans with sample questions and graphs are provided at the K-12 Data Portal. The data set is formatted for K-12 classroom use so does not require teacher processing. Another r

Climate Change Inquiry with Data

I train students as “Climate Change Scientists” every year as part of a preparation for Climate Change Student Summit held yearly. I was very excited to see this article because I am always... See More

I train students as “Climate Change Scientists” every year as part of a preparation for Climate Change Student Summit held yearly. I was very excited to see this article because I am always looking for more inquiry based lesson plan ideas on how to teach climate change. I really like the suggestion presented in this article – to have the students investigate climate change data. This is a unique approach, and it is one I believe I can use even with my middle grade students with sufficient preparation. I especially like that the author has provided questions to help drive the inquiry. While this is a different approach to inquiry – usually we have the students gather the data – I believe this is a very effective way to raise student interest in data that sometimes can overwhelm them in a sea of numbers without meaning. This is real science - finding meaning within authentic data in relation to climate change. What a great way to prepare students to become climate change speciali

Inquiry in Climate Change

This article presents lesson ideas using climate change data gathered from remote sensing of the ice sheets. The author presents the framework for unguided inquiry, students are given data ... See More

This article presents lesson ideas using climate change data gathered from remote sensing of the ice sheets. The author presents the framework for unguided inquiry, students are given data sets and asked observational questions. The idea of the lesson is to mimic the process scientist use to look at data and discover trends.