"The phrase 'climate change' is growing in preferred use to 'global warming'
because it helps convey that there are changes in addition to rising temperatures."
The National Academies

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NATIONAL CLIMATE LITERACY: ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES AND FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS

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Facing the Future Climate Change Units
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2-Week Climate Change Units

Over 3000 educators have already downloaded Climate Change: Connections and Solutions, Facing the Future's latest curriculum units. These 2-week interdisciplinary units, available for both middle and high school, encourage students to think critically about climate change and collaborate in creating solutions. The units include classroom activities, student readings, handouts, assignments, assessments, and alignments with national science and social studies standards. Thanks to funding from the Hewlett-Packard Company, the units, valued at $24.95, are available to download for free.

Lesson Plan Book for Elementary School
In case anyone has missed the news, Facing the Future’s Teaching Global Sustainability in the Primary Grades: A K-4 Curriculum Guide is now available. The guide’s four lessons explore identity and culture, food, biodiversity, and systems through role plays, simulations, singing, art, stories, writing, and speaking. Download the first lesson or order a copy.

Curriculum Highlight: How Much Does Carbon Cost?
Engaging students to think about bigger structural solutions can be as easy and fun as motivating them to take individual steps that make a difference. Facing the Future’s lesson on carbon emissions and environmental regulations includes a cap and trade game. Students discuss whether cap and trade is an effective solution to climate change and consider additional ways to persuade businesses to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Download this and other climate change lessons and student readings.

EPA Booklet: Climate Change and the Chesapeake Bay
                                      from EPA's Climate Change, Wildlife, and Wildlands Kit

                                                                    Get the kit (Free) 

                 
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The Keystone Center, Department of Energy and The National Energy Technology Laboratory present:

• Middle School CSI: Climate Status Investigations (grades 5-8)
  The middle school CSI module integrates math, language arts, science and social studies. 40 lesson plans, an inquiry-based investigation of the science of global climate change, the primary sources of greenhouse gases, and potential solutions, such as sequestration.
  
  All activities are aligned to the National Education Standards and include background information, materials lists and student assessment. The lessons and labs also include the use of technology when appropriate. (Text selected from Keystone website)
  
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• High School CSI: Climate Status Investigations (grades 9-12)
  The high school CSI module is designed around the concept of the classic challenge to first develop an understanding of climate change and  potential contributing factors, and then devise potential solutions.

             Students are given the tools to evaluate possible responses and multiple points of
             view, and are further challenged to work both independently and together to
             develop an acceptable plan of action. This multi-disciplinary, hands-on curriculum
             includes biology, Earth science, chemistry, physics, and ecology as well as
             language arts, math, and social studies connections immersed in each lesson.
             The lessons and labs also include the use of technology when appropriate. 
             (Text selected from Keystone website)

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