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Climate change and the greenhouse effect

From Happy Learning

Climate change and the greenhouse effect
3 min4th5th6thScience
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Summary

Happy Learning explains what is warming our planet and why it matters. A clear, friendly animated lesson that drops easily into a unit, a center, or a quick review.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

Living things and their surroundings are connected in an ecosystem, and the choices people make can protect or harm it.

  1. How are the living things in this video connected?
  2. What happens to the others if one part changes?
  3. What is one way people can take care of this place?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: ecosystem, food chain, producer, consumer, environment, protect.

Try it: Draw a simple food chain from the video, with arrows showing who eats whom.