Daily Lesson Plan . Each committee develops a series of strategies to better prepare for global warming trends in their city, as well as proposes ideas for ways in which people in the city can combat the causes of global warming. Review the Academic Content Standards related to this lesson. Predict what aspects of life in their city would change if the climate were to become warmer. Imagine that the temperature where you live became much warmer year-round than it is now.
Students then share their answers.
Divide students into groups of four or five. Then, tell students that their groups have been organized by their city s planning commission to evaluate ways in which the city is and will be affected by climate changes caused by global warming. By comparison, the world is 5 to 9 degrees warmer now than in the depths of the last ice age some 20,000 years ago. Each group will devise a series of strategies to better prepare for global warming trends in their city, as well as propose ideas for ways in which people in the city can combat the effects of global warming. Each group develops a written strategy statement that includes all of their group s proposals from the in-class small group activity.