National Education Standards Met:

Language Arts discipline

Goal: Students review information from the Stakeholder Grid and Economic Activity to identify possible causes of greenhouse gas emissions.

Objectives: Students will:

• Use a graphic organizer
• Review factors that influence emission rates
• Rate factors/causes

Materials (For class of 30 students):

• Inspiration Software or copy of Possible Causes - Student Sheet
• Possible Causes - Teacher Sheet (for your reference)
• Completed Stakeholder Grids
   

Time: 45 minutes

Standards Met: M1, LA1, LA3, LA4, LA7, LA11

Procedure:

• Have students get out their completed stakeholder grids.
• Review each stakeholder's hypothesis.
• Pass out student sheets.
• Ask students to fill in possible causes of global climate change in the cloud boxes. (One cause per cloud)
• While students fill in their charts, write the following scale on the board:
  --1 star = small impact to total greenhouse gas emissions
  --2 stars = medium impact to total greenhouse gas emissions
  --3 stars = large impact to total greenhouse gas emissions
• Review possible causes with the class.
• Using the scale on the board, ask students to rate the causes in the question mark box.
• Ask students to share their ratings.
• After reviewing the concept map, ask students if there is any information they are missing about global climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. 
• Make a list of their ideas on the board or on poster paper.  You will want to save the list.
• When students suggest that they do not know how greenhouse gases impact them, tell them that the next lesson in the unit focuses on effects!
   

Possible Causes Concept Map- Teacher Sheet

*Percentages from Table ES-3: U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Allocated to Economic Sectors
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/UniqueKeyLookup/RAMR5PKMLU/$File/tablees-3.pdf
 

Possible Causes Concept Map- Student Sheet

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