This resource provides a brief description, a short video, review questions, and adaptive practice questions about the difference between weather and climate.
Students will learn what weather and climate are, how the greenhouse effect works, and how the climate on Earth can change.
Teaching Tips
Positives
The video shows students different climate zones on a global map and uses an animation of the greenhouse effect to show the change in energy balance caused by greenhouse gases.
The adaptive practice questions provide a self-assessment tool for students to check their understanding.
Additional Prerequisites
Each student will need to have access to a computer and the internet for the interactive self-assessment questions.
Students must create an account to use some of the interactive tools.
Differentiation
This is a great resource to introduce the topic of climate change to students for the first time.
This could be used for virtual learning, homework, or an in-class assignment.
The resource succinctly explains the scope of weather and climate and their interactions in the earth-atmosphere-ocean system. This is recommended to introduce students to the concept of weather and climate.
Standards
Science
ESS2: Earth's Systems
6.ESS2.5 Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses result in changes in weather conditions.
ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
6.ESS3.5 Ask clarifying questions based on evidence about the factors that have caused climate change over the past century.
