Climate change

What is climate change? Conduct an experiment to investigate how the greenhouse effect works. Use the results to discuss how people are causing climate change.

Science Objectives
i) Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things.

Working Scientifically

1. Set up simple practical enquiries and comparative and fair tests.
2. Make systematic and careful observations and, where appropriate, take accurate measurements using thermometers.
3. Record findings using simple scientific language, drawings, labelled diagrams, keys, bar charts and tables.
4. Report on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations of results and conclusions.

Other Curriculum Areas
Mathematics

• Interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods, including bar charts and time graphs.