In Chapter 18 and associated lectures, we discussed the causes and consequences of climate change as well as what governments and individuals can do to address climate change and associated impacts. Your assignment is to write a public service announcement teaching the general public about the causes and impacts of climate change and persuading them of the need to address climate change. The learning objective of this assignment is to teach you how to communicate scientific and technical information to a broad audience in a limited amount of time (or space). This will mean that you will need to decide which types of information is important to make your case that action is needed to address climate change.
This assignment is meant to be creative so there are many different formats you can use to complete the assignment; you can write a speech for a local or state politician. Your submission must be both educational and persuasive. While this assignment can be creative there must be some guidelines that everyone must follow:
Present evidence that climate is changing (how do we know climate change is occurring?)
Explain how humans have caused the increase in the rate of change (what are the sources of climate change?)
Must explain minimum one consequence of climate change (what are potential impacts of climate change?)
How governments and individuals can help to address climate change and its impacts (what can we do?)
The measures to address climate change or impacts must address the consequences discussed
All information and material must be cited (even pictures or graphs)
Grading Rubric:
Description of evidence that climate is changing (35%)
Description of consequences of climate change (25%)
Explanation of what we can do to address climate change (20%)
Language (10%)
Grammar, use of terminology, etc.
More than 10 mistakes will reduce grade 5%.
Citations (10 %)
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