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Calculating Our Carbon Budget
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Grade Level Grades 6-8
Resource Type Activity
Standards Alignment
Next Generation Science Standards
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SWBAT calculate how quickly humans will exceed our carbon budget based on the burning of fossil flues. 

Students read and analyze a infograph that shows how much carbon dioxide can be put into the atmosphere before catastrophic climate change. Students then use a Desmos activity to graph 3 different secnariors for fossil fuel usage, business as usual, increased fossil fuel burning, and movement to clean energy. 

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Calculating our carbon budget.pdf

Activity
February 13, 2020
115.76 KB

Trilobites Article Guide.pdf

February 13, 2020
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Standards

Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.

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