6-8.ESS3.D.1: Analyze evidence of the factors that have caused the change in global…

Climate Clues Grade 6 · partly supports this outcome

Tree rings, old weather records and what your own town's numbers say. Three lessons on how scientists tell climate apart from a cold week.

• Is this winter colder than when your grandparents were kids? 50–60 min

  Students compare January temperatures from the 1960s with the last ten years, using their own town's records. They find out why memories and single years can mislead, and how averages show the real pattern.

• What can a tree ring tell us? 50–60 min

  Students count and measure the rings in a real slice of tree, match ring widths to rainfall, and compare old and new photographs of a glacier. They explain how nature keeps records of past climate long before anyone owned a thermometer.

Printable practice for 6-8.ESS3.D.1

These pages practise a closely related idea; the match to 6-8.ESS3.D.1 is partial.

• Climate Clues workbook included with the unit

  3 practice pages, 3 readings, 2 English-support pages, 1 word wall, 1 unit review, 1 unit test, with answer keys.

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