Climate Change and Man’s Impact Poster Project

You will be completing a poster (8.5 x11 paper or larger) that demonstrates your knowledge of climate change and man’s impact on Earth. You will be given a rubric that will explain how you will be graded (MUST HAVES- color, all components, creativity). The poster will be two-sided and look something like the following:

Side 1- Climate Change

Definition and Problem Picture of Greenhouse Effect

MUST be hand-drawn!

Causes Effects

Should include 3 causes Should include 3 effects

Side 2- Man’s Impact

Footprint (myfootprint.org) Pictures of things that can help preserve/protect Earth Students will include the # of earths they Can be hand-drawn, cut from magazines, take up and the other data they obtain or printed from internet from the website

1. 3 additional ways (do not include climate change here) humans negatively impact Earth 2. Explanation of how it impacts Earth and the effects Rubric

0 points 3 points 5 points

Definition of No definition Definition present Definition present Climate Change present but not completely and accurate accurate Picture of No picture present Picture present but Picture present with Greenhouse Effect little detail is much detail included 3 causes of Climate No causes present 1-2 causes present 3 causes present Change 3 effects of No effects present 1-2 effects present 3 effects present Climate Change Footprint results No results present Results present but Results present with with little detail much detail Pictures of No pictures present 2-3 pictures present 4-5 pictures present protection of Earth 3 human impacts No impacts present 1-2 impacts present 3 impacts present

Explanation of No explanations 1-2 explanations 3 explanations impact present present present Color/creativity No color/creativity Some color/ little Color/ much present creativity creativity present