Standard Form - Forests and Climate Change

Students begin by revising the basic rules of Standard Form and when it is used.
They are given a variety of formats and asked to explain which ones are written in Standard Form.
Students are then given some text with several numbers written in Standard Form to convert into ordinary numbers within the context of a brief text about changes to forest area globally over a 25 year period.
Next, students perform calculations to consider whether countries have lost or gained forest.
Finally, students are asked to consider afforestation that has taken place and current trends within the climate change debate.
They are asked to consider the advantages and limitations of afforestation world record attempts, all using Standard Form.
This lesson includes a slide that can be printed for students, which contains practice questions using all aspects of Standard Form (including calculations and converting “near misses” into Standard Form)

Explain why the protection & renewal of carbon sinks are essential strategies to slow climate change.
Students can explain the importance of people participating in collective action on climate change and give examples of successful collective actions.