Human Impact on Climate Change Phenomena-Based Lesson: Accelerating Two-Hundred-Eighty-Gigaton Annual Calving of the Greenland Ice Sheet Teacher Discussion Guide | Earth & Space Science | Grades 9–12

This is the teacher discussion guide, with lesson flow, facilitation questions, anticipated student ideas and model explanations for leading the class discussion for the Phenomena-Based Lesson in the high school Earth & Space Science (grades 9–12) chapter Human Impact on Climate Change, built around the phenomenon Accelerating Two-Hundred-Eighty-Gigaton Annual Calving of the Greenland Ice Sheet. It is sold separately from the other two parts of the set.

Complete the set: Human Impact on Climate Change Phenomena-Based Lesson: Accelerating Two-Hundred-Eighty-Gigaton Annual Calving of the Greenland Ice Sheet Presentation; Human Impact on Climate Change Phenomena-Based Lesson: Accelerating Two-Hundred-Eighty-Gigaton Annual Calving of the Greenland Ice Sheet Student Response Sheet. Scaffolded version: Human Impact on Climate Change Scaffolded Phenomena-Based Lesson: Accelerating Two-Hundred-Eighty-Gigaton Annual Calving of the Greenland Ice Sheet Teacher Discussion Guide.

Sections: NGSS Dimension; Specific Performance Expectation & Dimensional Alignment; Slides; Segment; Focus Activity & Instructional Goal; Anchoring Driving Question (student Sensemaking):; Talk Move Category; Teacher Facilitation Prompt & Sensemaking Strategy. Sample item: “What atmospheric radiative forcing mechanisms and ice-albedo positive feedback loops drive this runaway cryospheric retreat?”

What's inside: Teacher Discussion Guide (editable .docx + PDF, about 1,971 words, 7 pages); answer key / model answers for the teacher.

Standards: HS-ESS3-5 — Analyze geoscience data and the results from global climate models to make an evidence-based forecast of the current rate of global or regional climate change and associated future impacts to Earth systems. HS-ESS3-6 — Use a computational representation to illustrate the relationships among Earth systems and how those relationships are being modified due to human activity.

Resource type: Phenomena-Based Lesson – Teacher Discussion Guide. Format: editable Microsoft Word file plus a ready-to-print PDF.

Classroom use: Open with the phenomenon slide show, let students record ideas on the response sheet, and lead the discussion with the teacher guide. Built for high school Earth & Space Science, grades 9–12.

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