Climate Change Lesson 11 : Water Balance and the Great Lakes
Students will be able to:
1. Describe growing season and monthly water balances from a climagraph.
2. Explain how climate changes might impact water balance.
Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations
Grade 6-7 Science:
• Predict how changes in one population might affect other populations based upon their relationships in the food web. L.EC.06.23
HS Earth Science:
• Based on evidence of observable changes in recent history and climate change models, explain the consequences of warmer oceans (including the results of increased evaporation, shoreline and estuarine impacts, oceanic algae growth, and coral bleaching) and changing climatic zones (including the adaptive capacity of the biosphere). E5.4D
HS Biology:
• List the possible causes and consequences of global warming. B3.4e
Grade 6-7 Social Studies:
• Describe the environmental effects of human action on the atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere. 6-G5.1.1, 7-G5.1.1
• Describe the effects that a change in the physical environment could have on human activities and the choices people would have to make in adjusting to the change. 6-G5.2.1, 7-G5.2.1
Common Core Math Standards (Graphing)
• Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities 7.RP-2
• Graph proportional relationships, interpreting the unit rate as the slope of the graph. Compare two different proportional relationships represented in different ways. 8.EE-5
• Analyze and solve pairs of simultaneous linear equations 8.EE-8
Climate Literacy Principles
• #3. Life on earth depends on, is shaped by, and affects climate.
• #4. Climate varies over space and time through both natural and man-made processes.
• #6. Human activities are impacting the climate system.
• #7. Climate change will have consequences for the earth system and human lives.