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

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What's inside this resource

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

An educational resource designed for modern educators targeting students in Grade 7-11 level. Particularly beneficial for those in Earth Science studies. Comprehensive yet user-friendly approach to understanding climate change.

Resource Includes:

More than 20 days' worth of activities.
Covers a range of topics from weather versus climate to effects of global warming and climate proxies.
Material comes in various interactive forms such as fill-in-the-blanks, short answers and reflective thinking prompts based on quotes related to the topic.

Main Objectives:

Promote punctuality – late arrivals miss out on parts of class activity timers.

To ease the workload for teachers, these resources have been streamlined for efficiency while effectively measuring student knowledge about completed lessons. This versatile educational tool can be utilized either at commencement or conclusion stages during lessons.

Versatility & Adaptability:
This resource offers flexibility— you can tailor its use depending on your teaching preferences.
For educators who prefer digital approaches especially under current circumstances necessitating online learning globally , these resources have provision for online availability and submissions ensuring no learner is left behind regardless their locations or accessibility realities.

The goal remains the same:

Promote understanding and foster thoughtful scientific discourse among students.

In-depth content combined with varied pedagogical strategies makes this Climate Change - Bell Ringers, Class Warm-Ups, and Exit Tickets resource valuable for any educator wanting to cultivate engaged scientific minds. It's not just about giving instruction – it’s about promoting understanding. With its comprehensive yet simple structure, students can achieve greater scientific literacy.

What's included

A two-page instruction guide covering how the routine runs, how the sections work and how the contributor marks them (Activity Instructions.docx)
An 18-slide presentation (Climate Change Bell Ringer.pptx) holding a title slide, six question slides, five quotation slides and six video slides
A two-page student worksheet with boxed spaces headed "Climate Change", numbered 1 and 2 for each day's answers (Climate Change - Student Worksheet.docx)
A two-page answer key giving worked responses to the question slides, including definitions of weather and climate, greenhouse gas, the human effect on the carbon cycle and climate proxies (Climate Change Answer Key.docx)
Quotation slides from François Hollande, Barack Obama, Al Gore, Steven Chu and Moms Clean Air Force
Six video slides carrying the instruction "Watch the following video clip and summarize the main point(s) in 2-3 sentences"
A page linking a Google Sheets daily marking sheet the contributor uses, with a copy-link and a contact email (Google Sheets Daily Marking Sheet.docx)

Resource types: Activities

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Distinguish weather from climate, and state what the ozone layer does
Draw and explain the greenhouse effect, and define what makes a gas a greenhouse gas
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
Summarise a short video's main points in two or three sentences

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 guide is explicit that its marking scheme is one option among several - some teachers mark only the question days, some one submission a week, some none of the quote and video days
Each day's mark is out of 5 even though most days carry only one to three questions, so the guide marks on understanding rather than counting answers
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.
Drawing to explain - the greenhouse effect is set as a drawing task rather than a written definition.
Interpreting a quotation - five slides give a single quotation and ask what students think it means or what its underlying message is.
Summarising video - six slides ask for the main points of a clip in two or three sentences, with the emphasis on main ideas rather than detail.
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

How is a four-minute opener meant to run?

The guide describes a fixed routine: hand out the week's student worksheet as the bell rings, start a four-minute timer immediately, and when it finishes students flip their papers over and pass them to the front. Latecomers lose their four minutes rather than the task, which is how the routine settles the class.

What are the three kinds of slide?

Questions, quotes and videos. Question slides carry one to three items tied to a specific lesson - fill in the blanks, short answer, opinion or drawing. Quote slides give a single line from a public figure for students to interpret. Video slides ask for a two-to-three-sentence summary of a clip.

Where do the video clips come from?

They open from the deck itself. The guide says to click the video image while in slideshow mode and the clip opens in the browser, so the video slides carry the summarising instruction while the clips themselves sit outside the file.