Climate Zones and Change Activity

Teach students about climate, climate regions, and climate change using print and digital lessons to support NGSS ESS3-5. This activity includes readings and questions to help understand factors that affect an area's climate, such as temperature and precipitation, different climate zones on Earth, and natural and human factors that contribute to climate change.

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Students will learn about:

• Factors that impact climate
  • Temperature
    • Altitude
    • Latitude
    • Distance from large bodies of water
    • Ocean currents

• • Precipitation
    • Prevailing Winds
    • Mountain Ranges

• • Seasons

• Climate Regions
  • Tropical
    • Tropical Wet-Dry
    • Tropical Rainy

• • Temperate
    • Humid Subtropical
    • Mediterranean
    • Marine West Coast

• • Dry
    • Arid
    • Semi-arid

• • Continental
    • Humid Continental
    • Subarctic

• • Polar
    • Ice Cap
    • Tundra

• Climate Change
  • Natural causes
    • Variations in Earth's position to the sun
    • Changes in the sun's energy
    • Movement of continents

• • Human causes
    • Greenhouse gases
    • Human factors

This climate lesson includes:

• Teacher instructions to use this activity
• Links to digital Google Slides version of activity can be distributed through your learning management system such as Google Classroom, Schoology, etc.
• Printable packet
  • Climate
  • Climate regions
  • Climate change

• Digital and printable sketch note graphic organizers
• Answer key

Other lessons and activities to support this unit:

• Save the Oceans activity
• Oil Spill activity
• Great Pacific Garbage Patch Activity
• Message in the Waves activity
• Watershed activity
• Plastic Bag Activity
• Natural Disaster Unit
• Winter Solstice Activity
• Living Things
• Ecology
• Environmental Problems Project Based Assessment

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