Climate Change - Bell Ringers, Class Warm-Ups, and Exit Tickets

Start or end a climate change lesson with a brief question, quotation response or video summary. Use students’ written responses to revisit recent learning and open discussion.
Grades
Grades 7–11
Pages
25
File type
Multiple File Types
Answer key
Included

Updated Mar 24, 2023

Subject
Science, Environmental Science
Topic
Climate change, Bell ringers
Resource types
Activities, Worksheets
Answer key
Included

Product description

From the author

Use climate change questions, quotation responses and linked-video summaries as a bell ringer, warm-up or exit-ticket activity. The 18-slide PowerPoint contains a title, six question slides, five quotation slides and six video prompts.

The download also includes editable Word files: a two-page student response sheet, a two-page answer key for the question slides, two pages of instructions and a one-page link to the creator’s Google Sheets marking template.

Choose prompts after the related teaching and adapt the suggested timing and marking routine to your class. Preview external video and spreadsheet links before use. The deck supplies seventeen activity slides; you can spread prompts across additional sessions as needed.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Distinguish weather from climate, and state what the ozone layer does

  • Explain the connection between CO2 and climate change to someone unfamiliar with it, and describe how humans affect the carbon cycle

  • Name three potential impacts of climate change, and define climate proxies with two examples scientists use

Teaching tips

  • The routine is timed: the guide hands out the week's worksheet as the bell goes, starts a four-minute timer, and has students flip and pass their papers forward when it ends - latecomers lose the time rather than the task

  • Question slides are tied to specific lessons, so give each one on the day after the matching lesson; the quotation and video slides fill the days in between

  • The video clips open by clicking the image in slideshow mode, so run the deck as a slideshow rather than in edit view on video days

Skills covered

  • Recall under time pressure - six question slides ask students to answer from memory inside a four-minute window at the start of class.

  • Explaining a concept in plain terms - one slide asks students to explain the CO2 and climate change connection to someone who is not familiar with it.

  • Turning knowledge into action - the last question slide asks for a letter to the student's ten-year-old self naming five things to start doing about climate change.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

When should I use the question slides?

Choose them after teaching the corresponding climate change topic. Quotation and video responses provide alternative prompts between those lessons.

What should I prepare for a video prompt?

Preview the linked clip and check that it opens from the slideshow on your classroom device. Allow viewing time as well as time for the written summary.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Climate change

  • Greenhouse effect

  • Carbon cycle

  • Climate proxies

  • Bell ringers

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