Climate Change at the Poles
By Maggy Hunter Benson
Strategy I would use to teach about this article:
This is a wonderful article to educate students about the threats to wildlife and human life due to climate change. I would incorporate this article during science, while I am covering the topic of climate change, climate dread, and how humans affect the climate. I think this is a great topic to engage students in critical thinking, as well as problem solving. How can we solve the issue of the Earth continuing to get warmer and warmer?
I would have my students read this article as a whole group in a popcorn reading style; where one students reads a few sentences, another students reads a few sentence, and so on. I think this is a good strategy to keep students engaged because they have to follow along in case they are called on next. After the reading, I would have students break off into smaller groups and create posters about the reading for about 10–15 minutes. Then we would come together as a class and create a poster of all the important information as a whole.
Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Misconceptions:
- Some areas of the Earth still has cold or freezing weather.
- CO2 is a greenhouse gases, therefore it does not harm the environment of the climate.
Supplementary Text
Climate Kids is a very engaging website for children to learn the “bigger” questions of climate change! It is a great for students to learn more from researching content to learn more about the effects of climate change.
https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/marine-mammals/climate-change-poles
