Climate Time Machine

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Grades

6-8

In this project-based learning activity, students explore the geologic history of a particular region of the world to see how past climatic changes have altered the landscape. Students create museum exhibits to model what earlier climate patterns can reveal about current global temperature trends.

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Project Learning Tree’s Carbon & Climate curriculum for grades 6-8 has been selected a Learning Magazine 2020 Teachers’ Choice Award for the Classroom winner!

Learner Objectives

  • Students will identify ways that climatic changes have altered the landscape of a specific region over time.
  • Students will determine how past climate patterns can inform our understanding of current global temperature trends.

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