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Assignment

Start Here:

Web Resources:

  • World Climate
  • Climate Witness is a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) initiative to document the direct experiences of people who are witnessing the impacts of climate change on their local environment. WWF works with scientists around the world who provide scientific background information to the climate witness testimonies.
  • Climate stories- audio
  • Yale climate connections
  • On the Climate Connections: A Global Journey website, students can click on an interactive world map to read and hear stories from National Public Radio (NPR) related to climate change around the world.
  • National Geographic provides an interactive map with expected impacts of climate change in various regions. Students can click on specific locations on the map to learn about these impacts.

 

Databases:

Set up your Works Cited page correctly!
This is a no-brainer. Don't lose points on this. 

  • 1 inch margins
  • Double spaced 
  • Size 12 Times New Roman
  • Hanging margins (see video below) 
  • Arranged alphabetically according to the first word in the citation (after A, An, or The)
  • No abbreviations (cheat sheet)!

Wonder of Research Model