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Grade 7 Unit 6: Earth's Resources & Human Impact + Computer Science

How can we design solutions to help our communities be more resilient to changes in Earth’s system?

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Lesson Question: Why are floods and droughts happening more often?

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Lesson Question: Are rising temperatures affecting anything else in Earth’s water system?

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Lesson Question: Are there any changes in the air that could be related to rising temperatures?

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Lesson Question: What is happening in the world to cause the sharp rise in CO2?

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Lesson Question: Why is solving the climate change problem so challenging?

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Lesson Question: What other water solutions exist, and how could we use computer science tools to help implement them?

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Lesson Question: What would we normally expect for these places and how do we know it’s really changing?

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Lesson Question: How can we develop models to explain what we have figured out?

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Lesson Question: Are changes in carbon dioxide and methane related to or causing temperatures to increase?

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Lesson Question: Why could burning fossil fuels create a problem for CO2 in the atmosphere?

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Lesson Question: How are these solutions working in our communities?

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Lesson Question: How can we use computer science tools to help implement solutions in our community?

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Lesson Question: How would increased temperatures affect evaporation?

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Lesson Question: How are rising temperatures connected to two seemingly different phenomena?

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Lesson Question: Are the changes in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere part of normal cycles that Earth goes through?

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Lesson Question: How are changes to Earth’s carbon system impacting Earth’s water system?

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Lesson Question: How can large-scale solutions work to reduce carbon in the atmosphere?

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Lesson Question: What have we figured out and what questions do we still have?

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