Lessons in Sea-Level Rise

Duration: 30-60 minutes

Grade Levels: 5-12

What is sea-level rise and how does it affect us? This "Teachable Moment" looks at the science behind sea-level rise and offers lessons and tools for teaching students about this important climate topic.

Resources

Grade Levels: 5-12

Duration: 30-60 minutes

Concepts/Skills: ALGEBRA, DATA COLLECTION, ANALYSIS AND PROBABILITY, EARTH, PROBLEM SOLVING

Climate Standards Connections

Next Generation Science Standards
Grade	Performance Expectation	Description
9-12	HS-ESS3-5	Analyze geoscience data and the results from global climate models to make an evidence-based forecast of the current rate of global or regional climate change and associated future impacts to Earth systems.
Climate Change Connections		climate change
Clarification Statement & Assessment Boundary		Examples of evidence, for both data and climate model outputs, are for climate changes (such as precipitation and temperature) and their associated impacts (such as on sea level, glacial ice volumes, or atmosphere and ocean composition). Assessment is limited to one example of a climate change and its associated impacts.