This historic timeline details the discoveries made related to climate science, beginning with the discovery of gases in 1640.
Students will learn about the scientists and discoveries that enabled us to understand climate change and how climate change developed into the global problem it is today.
This timeline provides a thorough overview of climate science history.
Each section of the timeline is concise, engaging, and includes an image or video.
Additional Prerequisites
Students should have prior knowledge of climate change and its causes.
Differentiation
Cross-curricular connections can be made in social studies classes learning about the history of different scientific discoveries, or in language arts classes working on non-fiction reading strategies.
This resource lends itself well to a jigsaw activity, where each student is tasked with becoming an expert on one component of the timeline and presenting their learning to the class.
As an extension, have students choose to add one component to the timeline through research or predict a future timeline component.
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