Unit Plan: Environment and Climate Change (7-9)
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This unit plan overview provides links to all lessons along with links to accompanying teacher support materials that include:
- Grade specific literacy builder worksheets and answer guides
- Student worksheets and answer guides for individual lessons
- Video worksheets and answers
- Inquiry activities (support materials are provided as needed)
- Numeracy activities and answers
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Environment & Climate Change (7-9) lessons and links to resources are listed below.
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- Lesson 1: Natural Independent Systems
- Literacy Builder - Vocab Worksheet Grs 7-8 (10 minutes)
- Literacy Builder - Vocab Review Worksheet Grs 8-9 (20 minutes)
- Inquiry Activity: Understanding the Four Spheres (20 minutes)
- Inquiry Activity: Understanding Climate Change (20 minutes)
- Research Activity: Types of Mines (25 minutes)
- Video Worksheet: Four Spheres Part 1 - Geo & Bio (10 minutes)
- Video Worksheet: Four Spheres Part 2 - Atmos & Hydro (10 minutes)
- Key Terms Review (10 minutes)
- Wordsearch & Crossword (10 minutes)
- Lesson 2: What is Climate Change?
- Literacy Builder - Vocab Worksheet Grs 7-8 (10 minutes)
- Literacy Builder - Vocab Review Worksheet Grs 8-9 (20 minutes)
- Inquiry Activity: Understanding the Spheres & Climate Change (25 minutes)
- Video Worksheet: What is an ecosystem? (10 minutes)
- Lesson 3: Our Environment & Air Quality
- Literacy Builder - Vocab Worksheet Grs 7-8 (10 minutes)
- Literacy Builder - Vocab Review Worksheet Grs 8-9 (25 minutes)
- Inquiry Activity: News Broadcasting (60 minutes)
- Video Worksheet: Air Pollution (10 minutes)
- Video Worksheet: Air Pollution & Health (10 minutes)
- Numeracy Builder - Electric Vehicles (30 minutes)
- Wordsearch & Crossword (10 minutes)
- Lesson 4: Our Environment & Water Access
- Literacy Builder - Vocab Worksheet Grs 7-8 (10 minutes)
- Literacy Builder - Vocab Review Worksheet Grs 8-9 (25 minutes)
- Inquiry Activity: Gender & Water (40 minutes)
- Inquiry Activity: The Ancient Maya and Water Resources (30 minutes)
- Video Worksheet: Water Doesn’t Come From a Tap (10 minutes)
- Video Worksheet: Access to Water in Rwanda (10 minutes)
- Wordsearch & Crossword (10 minutes)
- Lesson 5: Our Environment & Biodiversity (Canada)
- Lesson 5: Our Environment & Biodiversity (International)
- Literacy Builder - Vocab Worksheet Grs 7-8 (10 minutes)
- Literacy Builder - Vocab Review Worksheet Grs 8-9 (10 minutes)
- Inquiry Activity: Save a Species (20 minutes)
- Inquiry Activity: Spoken Word Climate Change Poetry (30+minutes)
- Video Worksheet: Why is biodiversity so important ? (10 minutes)
- Video Worksheet: How global warming is causing more cases of mosquito-borne diseases (10 minutes)
- Lesson 6: Our Health & Climate Change
- Literacy Builder - Vocab Worksheet (10 minutes)
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