The document provides instructions for students to work in groups to create a storyboard showing the impacts of climate change on an ecosystem through a series of pictures with captions. It explains that students should read an information sheet, draw or work together to produce the storyboard pictures showing climate change effects, and include explanatory captions for each picture to then explain to the class. An example impact provided is that polar bears may struggle to hunt seals as climate change causes sea ice to form later and melt earlier each year or retreat further from shore.

3. • Read through your information sheet.
• As a group produce a story board to show the impacts of
climate change on your part of the ecosystem.
• You could do one picture each or work on them jointly.
• Each picture should have a caption at the bottom or in the
picture like in a cartoon strip.
• Don’t worry too much about your drawing as you will also be
explaining your picture to the class.
• Stick the sheets together in a row.
Picture
Caption

4. • Polar bears
– Polar bears hunt ice-living seals. The polar bears walk
quietly on the ice to the edge of a seal’s breathing hole in
the ice. The bear then waits for the seal to surface for air.
This hunting technique takes much less energy for the
bear than chasing a seal while swimming. If warmer
conditions cause the ice to form later in the fall and break
up earlier in the spring, become unstable, or retreat too
far from shore, polar bears will have difficulty getting
enough food. In fact, if the ice retreats too far from the
shore, bears can drown trying to swim out to the ice.
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