NBC News Learn: Our Changing Planet

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Activity Description

Use videos to examine the Changing Planet. Videos include Infectious Diseases, Ocean Acidification, Ocean Temperatures, Rising Sea Levels, Survival of Trees, Thawing Permafrost, and more

 

Preparation

• Watch the video clips. Decide which ones you want to use.
• Prepare questions to promote critical thinking in the students.
• Print  Summary and Take Away Sheet.

How-To

• Discuss changes to our planet.
• Show selected video clips.
• Divide class into pairs. Assign each pair one section of clips.
• Students work together watching videos, filling out the summary and take away sheets and organizing a presentation for the class.
• Set up a timeline for the oral presentations.
• Presentations can include a written essay about the Changing Planet or a report on what they learned.
• Before the day of presentations discuss with the students what constitutes an oral presentation, including what makes a good listener.

Teacher Tips

• Generate questions and observations as you watch the video clips.

More Ways

• Other free resources at this site include Science of Winter Olympics , Changing Planet , Chronicles of Courage, and We The People. Explore them and use in a similar way.

Program Areas

• ABE: Adult Basic Education

Levels

• Low
• Intermediate
• High
• All Levels

Documents

• Summary and Take Away Sheet .docx - Summary and Take Away Sheet

Subjects

• Reading
  • Critical Thinking/Decision Making
• Reasoning Through Language Arts
  • Essays
• Writing
  • Report Writing

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