MIT Climate Primer: Climate Change
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Provided by: MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative|Published on: November 12, 2021
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Synopsis
- This interactive resource contains information about historic climate conditions on Earth, factors that affect global climate, and future predictions of global climate change based on climate models.
- Students will be engaged with readings, animated graphs, read-aloud features, videos, and questions to check for understanding.
Subjects: Chemistry, Biology, Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
Region: Polar Regions, Global
Languages: English
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Positives
- It is engaging, interactive, and applicable to a diversity of learning styles due to the variety of media presented.
- It has a vast historical scope and will encourage students to think broadly about our impact on the global climate.
Prerequisites
- Students should be at a high school reading level and have a baseline ability to interpret and analyze data.
- Students should have basic knowledge of Earth's motions, biological evolution, and the greenhouse effect.
Differentiation & Implementation
- There are three videos over ten minutes in length, so you could have students get in groups to watch one and then have someone from each group present the information to the class.
- Interdisciplinary connections can be made between the changing chemistry of the atmosphere and the biological impacts that resulted.
- The figures and charts are all downloadable and there is a PDF version of the entire webpage.
- The read-along feature provides highlighted text as the audio file plays, which may be helpful for some learners.
- Other related resources include MIT Climate Primer: Climate Science and Global Climate Change Model: Making Predictions About Future Climate.
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About the Partner Provider
MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
Founded in 2014, the Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI) is MIT’s institute-wide effort to mobilize the substantial scientific, engineering, policy, and design capacity of the MIT community to contribute to addressing climate change and other environmental challenges of global import. ESI pursues multidisciplinary research, education, events, and partnerships to help move society toward an environmentally and socially sustainable future. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts on MIT’s main campus, ESI is powered by a lean staff working closely with students and faculty across the full spectrum of disciplines. Led by architecture professor John E. Fernandez, a leading scholar in the emerging field of urban metabolism, ESI is advised by students, faculty, alumni, and thought leaders from many sectors of society.
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