Climate Change in Grade 9 Geography (Academic and Applied)

This resource consists of a culminating task for summative evaluation plus a unit-by-unit breakdown of the conceptual understandings about climate change needed to ensure student success.

Resource description: Students select a Canadian town or small city and develop an annotated map that indicates the changes in the human and natural environments that would reduce greenhouse gases and thus slow climate change.

Contents: Resource list, student worksheets and evaluation rubric provided.

Additional Resources: This document is supported by a multimedia presentation, The Impacts of Climate Change, available on CD.

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Grade 9 Academic resource

Download entire guide - Academic (Revised 2005)
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Individual sections

Resource Introduction

Climate Change Connections—Big Ideas/Focus Questions and Answers

• Natural Systems
• Human Systems
• Human-Environment Interactions
• Global Interactions
• Major Elements of the Climate System
  

Culminating Task: Overview

Activity 1: Annotated Maps
1.1 Effective Map Making
1.2 Student Task: Town Planning to Address Climate Change
1.3 Town Planning to Address Climate Change
1.4 Evaluation Rubric

Activity 2: Defining Climate Change
2.1 Summary of the Kyoto Protocol
2.2 The Impact of Climate Change in Canada

Activity 3: Internet Research on Climate Change

Activity 4: Reading about Climate Change (Extension Activity—Revised 2005)
4.1 “Kyoto Protocol FAQs”
4.2 “Studies Show Climate Change Melting Permafrost under Roads, Runways in N.W.T.”
4.3 “Power Hungry”
4.4 “Kyoto – A British Example”
4.5 “The Other Low-Carb Life”
4.6 What are Canadians doing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

Activity 5: Climate Change Adaptations on an Annotated Map
5.1a Towns and Cities: Internet Addresses
5.1b Sample Bibliographic Conventions
5.2 Research Checklist
5.3 Concept Map

Grade 9 Applied resource

Download entire guide - Applied (Revised 2005)
Download archived internet resources - Applied

Individual sections

Resource Introduction

Climate Change Connections—Big Ideas/Focus Questions and Answers

• Natural Systems
• Human Systems
• Human-Environment Interactions
• Global Interactions
• Major Elements of the Climate System
  

Culminating Task: Overview

Activity 1: Annotated Maps
1.1 Effective Map Making
1.2 Student Task: Town Planning to Address Climate Change
1.3 Town Planning to Address Climate Change
1.4 Evaluation Rubric

Activity 2: Defining Climate Change
2.1 Summary of the Kyoto Protocol
2.2 The Impact of Climate Change in Canada

Activity 3: Internet Research on Climate Change

Activity 4: Climate Change Adaptations on an Annotated Map
5.1a Towns and Cities: Internet Addresses
5.1b Sample Bibliographic Conventions
5.2 Research Checklist
5.3 Concept Map