Climate Change Lesson 14 : Climate Change in the News (view)

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Overview
Learning goals:
Identify different perspectives in the media on climate change and its impacts., Describe how complex topics like climate change can have many perspectives and no single solution., Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of claims and data related to climate change through collaborative scientific discourse, focusing on the need for evidence in supporting arguments.
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MEECS, Envrionment, Environmental
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Summary

Students examine news sources and compare the type of coverage climate change receives as well as the objectivity of the sources.