Ideas for Assessment
Check your students' understanding of key concepts. Use the questions and activities as the springboard for a discussion, or have students work in small groups, pairs or individually to showcase their understanding.
Assessments are available as Word documents to allow you to customize them for your students. |
- A Blood Feast (PDF | Word)
- Deadly Parasites (PDF | Word)
- History of a Lethal Disease (PDF | Word)
- Changing Climate, Changing Habitats (PDF | Word)
- Tracking Temperature Trends (PDF | Word)
- The Carbon Cycle (PDF | Word)
- The Greenhouse Effect (PDF | Word)
- Molecules on the Move: Greenhouse Gases (PDF | Word)
- Fossil Fuels and a Fiery Future (PDF | Word)
- What Do We Do Now (PDF | Word)
Answer Keys (PDF | Word)
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Printables
Students can use these sheets to record their progress or
jot down notes as they complete the digital assets.
Printables are available in both PDF and Word formats. |
- Images of mosquitoes (PDF | Word) from A Blood Feast
- Life cycle of the Plasmodium falciparum (PDF | Word) from Deadly Parasites
- Script (PDF | Word) from the presentation, History of a Lethal Disease
- Script (PDF | Word) from the presentation, Changing Climate, Changing Habitats
- Chart (PDF | Word) of Earth's Temperature, from Tracking Temperature Trends
- The Carbon Cycle (PDF | Word)
- The Greenhouse Effect (PDF | Word)
- Molecules on the Move: Greenhouse Gases (PDF | Word)
- Image of Earth's temperature (PDF | Word), from Fossil Fuels and a Fiery Future
- What we do Now... (PDF | Word)
- Blood Fever blog (PDF | Word)
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| Links to other
high-quality web resources |
Climate Change
- NOAA's Climate
Services,
with a huge section for educators
- United
States Global Change Research Program whose 2009 report
on climate change and its effects is considered to be one
of the most comprehensive on record
- National
Climatic Data Center provides snapshots of current and
historic weather conditions around the US.
- The EPA's Climate
Change site
- Windows to the Universe: Climate
Change, a comprehensive look at climate and climate change
with sections of similar information for beginning, intermediate,
and advanced learners
- News,
Resources, and Commentary on Climate Change, Energy, and Sustainability, a compendium site with links to all kinds of easy-to-understand
information
- Actionbioscience.org's Issues
in the Environment provides analysis of key climate change
issues, especially assessing human, plant, and animal impacts
- Climate
Change: Science and Solutions, an online conference sponsored
by the National Council for Science and the Environment
- Teachers'
Guide to High Quality Educational Materials on Climate
Change and Global Warming, selected by science educators through the SciLinks program of NSTA and supported by Center for Integrated
Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change and the Department
of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
- National Wildlife Federation’s resources for the climate classroom.
- The U.S. Global Change Research Program provides a free toolkit of resources for educators.
- Maryland State Department of Education has aggregated resources on climate change.
Malaria
- The Center for Disease Control's comprehensive
site on malaria
- The World
Health Organization's look at this deadly disease
- Malaria
risk and temperature: Influences from global climate change
and local land use practices presents an analysis of Dr. Mercedes
Pascual's research into the nexus of climate change and malaria.
- Malaria:
Stopping a Global Killer, an easy-to-read analysis of
the history and future of the world's most deadly disease.
- Science
Daily publishes the most recent information on research
throughout the scientific community. Search for "malaria"
and/or "climate change" on their home page to find out the
latest.
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