Unit Overview
- Lesson 1
Solve: Climate Phenomena + Polar Bear Mystery
Choose to solve either a live video mystery capturing climate change in action or an animated polar bear mystery. By the end of The Solve, students discover the causes and impacts of climate change. (Live Solve: 80-110 minutes; Animated Solve: 70 minutes)
- Lesson 2
Make: Climate Modeling
Students design and create models to gather experimental data and demonstrate their understanding of the greenhouse effect and properties of heat (90 minutes)
- Lesson 3
Engineer: Become a Green Engineer
Students will calculate their ecological footprint and design a solution to reduce their impact on the environment (150 minutes)