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Grade 6Earth SystemsComing

Climate Clues

Tree rings, old weather records and what our own town's numbers say. How scientists tell climate apart from a cold week.

Lessons in this unit

  1. 1Is this winter colder than when your grandparents were kids?Students compare old and new weather records for their own town.Coming
  2. 2What can a tree ring tell us?Reading climate clues from tree rings, ice and old photographs.Coming
  3. 3What's the difference between weather and climate?A cold week versus a cold century. Students sort evidence and settle the argument.Coming

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