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Tracey Cornwell and John Howell

Tentative Title
Global Warming and the Human Impact

Target Audience
5th Grade Science

Brief Description
This Global Warming Unit will walk fifth grade students through a series of scaffolding lessons to prepare them for a Socratic Seminar and Multimedia Production.

Curriculum Goals
__//**Students will be able to :**//__ Global Warming - What is it? What is the the human impact of global warming
 * What are the causes?
 * What is the Greenhouse effect?
 * Loss of rain forest; increase in

What are the effects?

What can we do? --- (MAYBE/MAYBE NOT)

D1. State how air, soil, water, sound, and light pollution affects the environment D2. Investigate habitat destruction D3. Recognize industrial impact and the environmental laws that have changed over the years. D4. Identify that conservation and protection of Earth's resources are necessary for survival of living things. Example: Explore renewable energy sources (solar, geothermal, wind) and protection strategies (reduce, reuse, recycle, "green thinking")

Media Literacy Goals

 * **Students will be able to critically analyze media for a given inforamtion problem.**
 * **Students will be able to critically analyze different types of media including but not limited to videos, posters, photgraphs, advertisements, comics, paintings, websites, magazine articles and book excerpts.**
 * **Students will be able to assess media for bias.**
 * **Students will be able to synethesize and present what they have learned by creating a multimedia presentation.**

Proposed Activities
Global Warming Google Presentation

//Unit #1// __**Perspective Debate**__ Students //Island of Kiribati vs. Data Driven Scientist// Divide the class in half.

One side goes with Mrs. Cornwell to watch and read article Mrs. Cornwell preps team for debate Other side goes with Mr. Howell to watch and read a different article Mr. Howell preps team for debate __**//Resources//**__ Rising sea levels swallowing Kiribati

//Unit #2// __**What is Global Warming**__//?// //Sources://
 * //World Book Encyclopedia Online//
 * //Britannica Encyclopedia Online//
 * //embedded video animations within article//
 * //1989 Science Text Book//
 * //US EPA Student's Guide to Global Climate Change//

//** Causes of Global Warming **//
 * Greenhouse Effect
 * Natural Process vs. Increased Effect
 * Human contribution
 * Loss of Rainforest
 * Natural Process


 * //Effects of Global Warming// **
 * Environmental Impact
 * Rise in Sea Level
 * Melting of the Polar Ice Caps
 * Alter Weather Patterns
 * Effects on Plants and Animals
 * Human Health

//** Warming Patterns **// Find images/graphs/charts

//** Responsibilities **//
 * Alternative Energy Sources
 * Personal Energy Conservation

//**Unit #3**// __**Explicit Media Decoding Lessons**__ Lesson 1: Media Messages- videos, photographs, articles to embed
 * All media messages are constructed
 * Media messages are constructed using a creative language with its own rules
 * Different people experience the same media message differently
 * Media have embedded values and points of view
 * Most media messages are organized to gain profit and/or power

Lesson 2:Media Decoding Decoding media helps us answer these questions
 * Who created this message?
 * What creative techniques are used to grab my attention?
 * How might different people understand this message differently?
 * What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or let out of, this message?
 * Why is this message being sent?

Lesson 3: Introduction to Decoding Tool: RADCAB Source: []



RADCAB Review/Study/Test [] RADCAB Scatter [] RADCAB Space Race []
 * Student Activities**:
 * RADCAB in Action** []
 * Who created this message?
 * What creative techniques are used to grab my attention?
 * How might different people understand this message differently?
 * What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message?
 * Why is this message being sent?

Lesson 4: Decode It Videos Global Warming Animation with Music Does Global Warming Really Exist? Global Warming for Kids Climate Change Another Cartoon About Global Warming

Global Warming: Junk Science vs. Real Science

Can You Save Al Gore? Global Warming Hysteria Global Warming Swindle Addressing Climate Change - Chevron Climate Change Scam An Inconvenient Truth from Futurama Edit video to use Global Warming: Al Gore Talks with Matt Groening I'm confused....why did Gore do this?

Culminating Activities
 * Unit #4**

__//**Key Questions for vi deo #1 **//__ __//** Addressing Climate Change - Chevron Human Energy Stories **//__
 * 1) Who made this message?
 * 2) What techniques are involved in this video?
 * 3) Is this fact, opinion or something else?
 * 4) What ideas, values, information and/or points of view are overt? Implied?

__**Key Questions for video #2**__
 * 1) Why was this made?
 * 2) Who might benefit from this message?
 * 3) Who might be harmed by it?
 * 4) What idea, values, information and/or points of view are overt? Implied?

//Socratic Seminar//

__**Unit #5**__ //Student Media Production// //Glogster// //Blogging// //Voice Thread// //Photo Story// //30 second commerical?// //Map Maker Interactive// //Students will use Map Maker to enhance multimedia presentation.// //A link can be shared or a screen shot can be embedded into any of the above projects.// __**Responsibility**__ Different Points of View.

__**Note to self:**__ Picture Book Anaylsis


 * Carbon Footprints
 * check for online carbon footprints ~ check teachers guide for Global Warming in Project Look Sharp
 * Assess own footprint and determine what your own carbon footprint is then jump into personal responsibility.
 * How we do make changes?
 * Can one person make a difference?
 * Perhaps hit issues of energy...

Sources: __Fiction__ Bang, Molly. //Common Ground//. Cherry, Lynne. //A River Ran Wild.// Hurd, Edith Thacher & Clement Hurd. //Wilson’s World.// Schimmel, Schim. //Dear Children of the Earth.// Van Allsburg, Chris. //Just a Dream.//

__Nonfiction__ Bishop, Amanda. //How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint.// Orme, Helen. //Climate Change.// Orme, Helen. //Energy for the Future.// Orme, Helen. //Garbage and Recycling.// Orme, Helen. //Habitat Destruction.// Orme, Helen. //Living Green.// Orme, Helen. //Pollution.// Science

Over arching theme ~ understanding different points of view. Think about perspective and piont of view nad the Science

__**Note to Self:**__ Possible Ideas 1. comment on ClimateChange101 blog [] 2. Scaffold this exercise modeling appropriate and effective commenting strategies on a blog post prior to independent student commenting.

Resources/Support


11th Hour Trailer __**Websites**__ globalwarming.org globalwarming.com Climate Change Expedition Tiki the Penguin [] __**Student Resources**__ EduGlogster Fantabulous Fifth Graders Edublog Google Earth Blog Blabberize Energy Choices and Climate Changes Activity
 * The Big 6 ~ Information Problem Solving
 * RADCAB ~ Steps for Online Information Evaluation
 * Alan November's Information Literacy Resources

__**Don**__ Working with Chris Sperry and 5th Graders on working with Climate Change. Would love to be able to connect at some level and perhaps you could point us to some age appropriate resources for Global Warming and Climate Change.

__**Websites to Use**__ Grow Up, Cool Down Breath In, Breath Out Explicit Global Warming Commercial ~ I would not show this to fifth graders... CLEAN ~ Climate Literacy & Energy Network