Trends in Climate Change

Trends in Climate Change

Lesson 8 of 11 in this unit

  • Cool+
  • Primary
  • Year 5
  • Mathematics
  • Graphs and data
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
  • Environmental
  • Land Management
  • Social
  • Indigenous Education
  • ...

Lesson summary

Students evaluate whether humans are influencing our climate by critically analysing data on climate change.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • understand how the climate is changing
  • recognise some of the causes of climate change.

Success criteria:

Students can...

  • interpret graphs and charts.

Partner acknowledgement

Cool.org would like to acknowledge the support of the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance Ltd (NAILSMA) in creating these resources.

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Curriculum mapping

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions:

Mathematics:

Students learn to:

  • interpret line graphs representing change over time; discuss the relationships that are represented and conclusions that can be made (AC9M5ST02)

Cross Curriculum Priority: SustainabilityAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

Relevant parts of Year 5 achievement standards:
By the end of Year 5, students interpret and compare data represented in line graphs.

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Skills

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

  • communication
  • critical thinking
  • cultural understanding

Additional info

Level of teacher scaffolding: High - review students’ knowledge and identify their misconceptions, assist students with simple chemistry concepts, assess student outcomes.

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

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