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What Is Causing Global Warming?



Media literacy and critical thinking lesson analyzing conflicting perspectives on the causes for global warming by decoding short excerpts from two films, The Great Global Warming Swindle and An Inconvenient Truth.



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Relevant Subject Area(s)

Film/Video Arts, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Environmental Studies

Grade Level(s)

High School, College

Media Type(s)

Animated Film, Chart/graph, Documentary Film, Informational Text, Television Commercial

Author(s)

Chris Sperry, Dan Flerlage, Alexander Papouchis

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Resource Standard Common Core ELA Strand
Reading For Science and Technical Subjects (RST), Speaking and Listening (SL)