1.2 How do I know what someone thinks?
1 Do a jigsaw reading about 3D printing. Your teacher will give you a text to read. Ask your partner questions.
2 Which of the pictures below matches your reading text?
✓ Evaluation
✓ Analysis
✓ Research
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Explain what climate change is to your partner.
5 Read the text to check your ideas.
Climate change describes a change in average conditions – such as temperature and rainfall – in a region over a long period of time. NASA scientists have observed that Earth’s surface is warming, and many of the warmest years on record have happened in the past 20 years. An extract from ‘Weather vs Climate’, NASA Climate Kids, 2022, https://climatekids.nasa.gov/climate-change-meaning/
6 What does the information in this lesson make you wonder? Add to your KWL chart.
Did you learn anything new today? What was it? Did the information make you change your ideas about Earth and climate change? Talking point
3 Do some research on the category from your table that your teacher gives you.
4 Look at your findings as a group. Discuss and agree the best way of recording them. Then record what you have found out.
5 Make a poster or a webpage about climate change and your school. Make suggestions to make your school’s carbon footprint smaller. Look at the Top tips in Lesson 2.6 to remind you how to make a good poster.