HS-ESS2-4 Regents Review | Climate Factors & Energy Balance

The Description

Earth's energy budget has a way of turning into a diagram students can label perfectly without explaining where the energy goes.

This targeted Regents review asks students to interpret incoming and outgoing energy, greenhouse gases, and climate factors as connected processes. After building the relationships, they practice transferring them to exam-style stimuli.

What Students Will Do

• Review key climate factors and Earth's energy balance.

• Interpret energy-flow diagrams and related evidence.

• Work through guided and independent practice.

• Use Regents-style assessments and released exam questions to apply the science.

Why This Resource Is Different

I don't want students to just point at an outgoing arrow and say 'radiation.' The important question is what the arrow represents—and what happens if that energy flow changes.

The targeted sequence is a practical companion to climate investigations, with focused practice instead of an entire exam's worth of unrelated topics.

What's Included?

• Editable climate-change review packet and answer version.

• Regents-style assessment and answer-key slides.

• Teacher implementation guide.

• Released Regents practice PDFs and answer document.

The Details

Grades 8–10; HS-ESS2-4 climate factors and energy balance. Editable Word and PowerPoint learning/practice resources with related Regents-style questions.