Breaking Down Barriers with Climate Change
Making Connections
About this Activity
- Created by:Curry School of Education and Human Development
- Historical Era:Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
- Thinking Skill:Historical Analysis & Interpretation
- Bloom's Taxonomy:Analyzing
- Grade Level:High School
During this activity, students will analyze a variety of primary sources to investigate how human interactions with the environment can lead to changes in the environment, weather, and climate over time. Additionally, students will reflect on how these interactions can lead to large-scale changes like climate changes and have a profound effect on ecosystems. Students will connect their observations during this activity to current events today. Students will reflect on how they can break down barriers with climate change as citizen scientists in their history, social studies, and science classrooms.
Students will be able to:
https://www.docsteach.org/activities/student/1-breaking-down-barriers-with-climate-changeStudents will be able to:
- Observe and describe environmental elements in a variety of documents.
- Analyze primary sources from a variety of time periods.
- Make connections between documents and evaluate how human interactions with the environment can lead to changes over time.
- Assess how humans interactions with the environment can lead to both positive and negative changes over time.
Documents in this activity
- Logbook of the USCG Cutter Bear
- Coal Barge on the Monongahela River Moves Past a United States Steel Corporation Coke Plant
- Destruction Of Wetlands At Hackensack Meadows
- Fish Killed By Water Pollution
- Letter from Kelli Middlestead About the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
- Municipal Solid Waste - Recycling Bin and Garbage Bag on Curb