THINKING SKILLS
Thinking skills activity – card sort
The following activity should be used to develop a learner’s interpreting
skills.
1.
Learners should work in pairs and cut out the 14 cards.
2.
Learners should put the physical causes and the human causes cards at
the top of their desk.
3.
There should be 12 other cards with causes of climate change on them.
4.
The learners should place these remaining cards under physical causes
or human causes.
5.
Learners should then swap a member of their group and discuss to make
sure they have the same ideas in the new group.
Physical causes
Human causes
Cattle farming
Volcanic dust
Nitrous oxides from power stations
Deforestation
Burning fossil fuels
Sunspot activity
Ice cap melting
War
CFCs from refrigerators and aerosols
Permafrost melting
Changing ocean circulation
Aircraft contrails
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