Engage your students in real-world Earth and Space Science with this hands-on, three-station Climate Change Analysis Activity. Aligned with NGSS Earth and Space Science standards, this activity challenges students to think critically about the causes and effects of climate change through current events, data interpretation, and modeling. At Station 1, students analyze a recent article to develop a Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) argument about how climate change is impacting New York. At Station 2, students explore the relationship between ice albedo, sea ice extent, and amplified global warming through graph analysis and model drawing. Finally, at Station 3, students investigate Earth’s tilt and precession to understand how natural cycles influence climate patterns over time.

This activity fosters data literacy, model-based reasoning, and evidence-based explanations, making it a powerful tool for helping students connect climate science concepts to both local and global phenomena.