Human Emissions Mapping

This worksheet helps students in Grades 5 and 6 understand how everyday human activities contribute to climate change by tracing clear cause-and-effect chains. Learners analyze how actions such as burning fossil fuels, using CFCs, and raising livestock lead to specific greenhouse gas emissions and result in environmental impacts like global warming, sea-level rise, and extreme weather. The activity strengthens climate science knowledge, logical sequencing, and real-world application of scientific concepts.

Learning Goals

• Human Impact on Climate (Grades 5-6) – Students connect common human activities to the greenhouse gases they produce.
• Emissions & Atmospheric Processes – Learners identify how gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and CFCs affect Earth’s atmosphere.
• Cause-and-Effect Reasoning – Students complete chains that link activities to emissions and resulting climate impacts.
• Climate Impact Awareness – Reinforces understanding of consequences such as rising temperatures, melting ice, and severe weather events.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to align with upper-elementary climate and Earth science standards.
• Clear Mapping Structure – Supports sequential thinking and helps students visualize complex relationships.
• Real-World Relevance – Uses familiar human activities to make climate science meaningful and accessible.
• Flexible Classroom Use – Ideal for independent practice, guided instruction, review lessons, or formative assessment.

This human emissions mapping worksheet helps students move beyond isolated facts to see how human behavior directly influences Earth’s climate system. By linking actions, emissions, and impacts, learners strengthen science literacy, critical thinking, and environmental awareness. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this printable resource offers meaningful, low-prep practice that deepens understanding of climate change and human responsibility.

This worksheet is part of our Greenhouse Effect Worksheets collection.