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Climagraphs can tell us about the seasonal shifts in climate due to climate change. Changes in growing season and water balance in the Great Lakes region will have economic impacts.

title "Climate Change Lesson 11 : Water Balance and the Great Lakes" 2024 by Michigan Geographic Alliance
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Climate Change Lesson 11 : Water Balance and the Great Lakes

Created Feb. 5, 2024 by Michigan Geographic Alliance

1. Making a Climagraph to Show Water Balance (PowerPoint), contained on the MEECS Climate Change CD, shows the steps to make a climagraph and a better designed climagraph. This would be good practice for students who do not have experience with climagraph construction or have trouble reading a climagraph.

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Subject:: Environmental Science
Level:: Middle School, High School
Material Type:: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

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MI.SOC.6-G5.1.1

Michigan Social Studies Standards

Grade 6

Learning Domain: ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY

Standard: Describe examples of how humans have impacted and are continuing to impact the environment in different places as a consequence of population size, resource use, level of consumption, and technology.

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MI.SOC.6-G5.2.1

Michigan Social Studies Standards

Grade 6

Learning Domain: ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY

Standard: Analyze the effects that a change in the physical environment could have on human activities and the actions people would be required to make (or would choose to make) in response to the change.

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MI.SOC.7-G5.1.1

Michigan Social Studies Standards

Grade 7

Learning Domain: ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY

Standard: Describe examples of how humans modified the environment in the era being studied.

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MI.Math.Content.7.RP.A.2

Michigan State Math Standards

Grade 7

Learning Domain: Ratios and Proportional Relationships

Standard: Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities.

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MI.Math.Content.8.EE.B.5

Michigan State Math Standards

Grade 8

Learning Domain: Expressions and Equations

Standard: Graph proportional relationships, interpreting the unit rate as the slope of the graph. Compare two different proportional relationships represented in different ways. For example, compare a distance-time graph to a distance-time equation to determine which of two moving objects has greater speed.

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MI.Math.Content.8.EE.B.6

Michigan State Math Standards

Grade 8

Learning Domain: Expressions and Equations

Standard: Use similar triangles to explain why the slope m is the same between any two distinct points on a non-vertical line in the coordinate plane; derive the equation y =mx for a line through the origin and the equation y = mx + b for a line intercepting the vertical axis at b.

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MI.SS.MS.ESS2.5

Michigan Science Standards

Grades 6-8

Standard: Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses results in changes in weather conditions.

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MI.SS.MS.ESS2.6

Michigan Science Standards

Grades 6-8

Standard: Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates.

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MI.SS.MS.ESS3.3

Michigan Science Standards

Grades 6-8

Standard: Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.

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MI.SS.MS.LS1.5

Michigan Science Standards

Grades 6-8

Standard: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms.

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