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Fossil Fuels and Climate Change from MIT's TILclimate

Grade Level Grades 9-12, Higher Education
Resource Type Activity, Handout
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Fossil fuels are used throughout our world. Why are they called that, and where do they come from? What are the impacts of their extraction, distribution, and use? Fossil fuels are at the center of a lot of big questions. Students develop and answer their own specific, testable questions using a data visualization website.

SWBAT

  • Explain where coal, oil, and natural gas come from.
  • Understand the differences between coal, oil, natural gas, and gasoline.
  • Explain why fossil fuels are considered non-renewable.
  • Understand the relationship between burning fossil fuels and climate change.
  • Develop, refine, and answer a specific, measurable question with a given data-visualization tool.

Skills

  • Asking and answering questions
  • Data visualization and analysis
  • Logical sequencing

Resources

Files

TILclimate Fossil Fuels Educator Guide FULL.pdf

Activity
October 21, 2021
2.3 MB
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How to Use TILclimate Educator Guides.pdf

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October 21, 2021
0.3 MB
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Standards

Create a computational simulation to illustrate the relationships among management of natural resources, the sustainability of human populations, and biodiversity.
Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints for solutions that account for societal needs and wants.
Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
Choose a level of accuracy appropriate to limitations on measurement when reporting quantities.
Global climate models used to predict changes continue to be improved, although discoveries about the global climate system are ongoing and continually needed.
Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints for solutions that account for societal needs and wants.

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