Choosing Earth's Climate Future

Notes from our reviewers

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• Teaching Tips
  The resource has a link to transfer the material to the Google Classroom. There are 13 pages in this interactive lesson, each with a video or graphic, questions, and a place for students to take notes. For this to be effective, teachers should guide students through each page and decide how many pages to use. If all 13 pages are used with adequate time for students to discuss the questions and take notes, it may take time and teachers should plan for this. Teaching tips are listed on the lesson plan for each page.
• About the Science
  This interactive lesson deals with three interconnected choices for society - suffer, adapt, mitigate - in response to climate change. There is an in-depth activity that can be expanded into a short essay or group project. Passed initial science review - expert science review pending.
• About the Pedagogy
  This lesson does a great job of giving leading questions to help take notes and understand topics as you work through the lesson, and then gives the opportunity to develop a class project or short essay to expand further. Prerequisites are listed in the teaching guide, as well as tips to engage and help run the program for diverse learners. This resource presents some negative results of the future with climate change if no action is taken now to prevent it. This can be stressful or emotional for students. In order to put this into context, it may be helpful to start this module by explaining that we can still take action to prevent some of these consequences to climate change and these scenarios are based on predictions.
• Technical Details/Ease of Use
  Teacher Tips, Technical Notes and an introduction to using interactive lessons are provided to teachers, along with a transcript that can be shared with students. These resources are provided by links that generate a pop-up version which can be printed. If teachers are familiar with PBS Media lessons this is effective. As long as technological requirements are met, this is a straight-forward lesson that does a great job of scaffolding ideas. Website is user friendly with some difficulty connecting/bad gateways that came up for reviewers.