Book Summary
Many scientists believe that Earth's climate is changing back to a warmer pattern, and they call the change "global warming." This book informs readers of the evidence for climate change, discusses possible causes for the changes in our climate, and touches on possible results of climate change. The author asks readers specific questions, encouraging the formation of opinions, and also offers ideas for personal changes people can make to help fight global warming. Photographs and diagrams support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand text
• Understand and identify cause-and-effect relationships
• Identify and understand the use of parentheses
• Arrange words in alphabetical order

Materials

• Book -- What Do You Think About Climate Change? (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Index cards and poster board
• KWLS, cause and effect, parentheses, alphabetical order worksheets
• Discussion cards

      Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be demonstrated by projecting book on interactive whiteboard or completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: atmosphere, axis, climate, computer models, fossil fuels, geothermal, glaciers, global warming, grants, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, hydropower, ice ages, ice cores, ice sheets, ice shelf, industrialization, meteorologists, orbit, photosynthesis, pollutants, renewable energy