Mr. Ahearn
What About The Past?
Objective
At the end of this section the students will be able to understand the Earth's history of climate change.
Task#1- Graphs
Below are two graphs that show Global temperature fluctuations. The first graph shows since 1880 the second shows the last 1,000 years. Have students view the graphs and come up with:
1. Trends and patterns?
2. Reasons/ Explanations for the patterns?
3. Has there been warming in the past? and is it different from the warming occurring today?
1. Trends and patterns?
2. Reasons/ Explanations for the patterns?
3. Has there been warming in the past? and is it different from the warming occurring today?
Past 120 years
Past 1,000 years
Task #2- NOAA Paleoclimatology
Students will use the NOAA website below to complete the worksheet that will give them an understanding of how scientist study past climate of Earth.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/primer.html
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/primer.html
