Middle School CSI: Climate Status Investigations
(grades 5-8)

The middle school CSI module spans four disciplines: math, language arts, science and social studies. Using over 20 lesson plans, teachers guide students through an inquiry-based investigation of the science of global climate change, the primary sources of greenhouse gases, and potential solutions, such as sequestration.

All activities are aligned to the National Education Standards and include background information, materials lists and student assessment. The lessons and labs also include the use of technology when appropriate.

The middle school CSI module encompasses lessons that allow students to define climate change; allow for debate on its effects and to better understand positions of different stakeholders; provide lab activities to understand the greenhouse effect, address the social implications of changes in our earth’s climate; and examine various adaptation and mitigation strategies, including sequestration methods currently in the development stage at NETL.