Climate Change & Man’s Impact Poster

Front of Poster

This side should focus on climate change

The following must be included in order to receive full credit

Definition of Climate Change

Causes (at least 3)

Effects (at least 5)

Greenhouse effect (a diagram that shows the greenhouse with descriptions)

Pictures

Color

Overall Poster Requirement:• Size- 8.5” x 11”• Can be hand-drawn or

computer generated• Must be brought to class in hard

copy form (if you cannot print from home, ask a friend to print, go to media center, or complete by hand)

Examples of what the front could include:

Back of Poster This side should focus less on climate change, but rather more on man’s impact.

The following must be included in order to receive full credit:

Results with graphics from the ecological quiz (http://www.earthday.org/footprint-calculator)

 Students will include the # of earths they take up and the other data they obtain from the website. (This link will not work on phones; use chromebooks or complete at home.)

Pictures of things that can help preserve/protect Earth (4-5 pictures)

Can be hand-drawn or printed from internet

3 additional ways (do not include anything related to climate change here) humans negatively impact Earth

Explanation of how it impacts Earth and the effects

Pictures

Color

Examples of what the back could include:

This is much more elaborate than what I would expect.

Rubric

  0 points 3 points 5 points

Definition of Climate Change

No definition presentDefinition present but

not completely accurate

Definition present and accurate

Picture of Greenhouse Effect

No picture presentPicture present but

little detail is includedPicture present with

much detail

3 causes of Climate Change

No causes present 1-2 causes present 3 causes present

3 effects of Climate Change

No effects present 3-4 effects present 5 effects present

Pictures on Front of poster

No pictures presentPictures of causes or

effectsPictures of both

causes and effects

Footprint results No results presentResults present but

with little detailResults present with

much detail

Pictures of protection of Earth

No pictures present 2-3 pictures present 4-5 pictures present

3 human impacts No impacts present 1-2 impacts present 3 impacts present

Explanation of impact

No explanations present

1-2 explanations present

3 explanations present

Pictures of man’s impact on back of

posterNo pictures present 1-2 pictures present 3+ pictures present

Color/creativityNo color/creativity

presentSome color/ little

creativityColor/ much

creativity present