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Simulation of international negotiations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Topic(s): Mitigation Strategies, Energy Policy

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)

In the overview lecture about the current status of global climate change negotiations, educator should supplement with most recent developments and examples of summits. Showing a video of an internat ...

Climate Change and the Carbon Cycle

Topic(s): Greenhouse Effect, Climate Feedbacks, Biogeochemical Processes, Sources and Sinks, Carbon Cycle, Climate System, Anthropogenic Changes, Climate Impacts, Mitigation Strategies

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)

the carbon cycle/flux (both natural and human-made). In lesson 2, students learn about the greenhouse effect and how it's amplified by the warming planet's destruction of habitats that perform natural ...

Modeling Early Earth Climate with GEEBITT

Topic(s): Greenhouse Effect, Global Energy Balance, Climate Feedbacks, Solar Radiation, Climate Data, Climate Reconstructions, Scenario Development

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)

simple spreadsheet climate model to explore how solar luminosity, albedo, and an atmospheric greenhouse gas loading parameter affect the global mean surface temperature in different climate regimes (M ...

Climate Change and the Water Cycle

Topic(s): Greenhouse Effect, Water Cycle, Anthropogenic Changes, Climate Data, Extreme Weather, Ecosystem Changes, Availability of Water Resources, Agricultural Changes / Food Security, Climate Impacts, Human Responses to Climate

Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)

Insulating the Earth, Insulating You: Students conduct an experiment where they model the greenhouse effect using their own body heat, thermometers, towels, and space blankets. Weather or Climate: Thi ...

Energy Justice Lesson Plan

Topic(s): Mitigation Strategies, Personal Responsibility, Human Responses to Climate, Energy Use

Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)

of the greenhouse effect. Teachers may want to expand this either by teaching a lesson on the greenhouse effect prior to this lesson, or using this as an opportunity to extend the lesson. The lesson a ...

Earth's Changing Climates

Topic(s): Causes of Climate Change, Paleoclimate Records, Climate Data

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)

of anomalies - interpreting climate data from graphs Suggestions: - lacks an explanation of how gases translate to temperature from ice cores (part 5). Activity is the first of 5 activities in the Hi ...

Energy and the Poor - Black Carbon in Low Income Nations

Topic(s): Albedo, Aerosols, Mitigation Strategies, Fossil Fuels, Efficiency and Conservation

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)

in instructor's notes is now at: [link Possible source for confusion: Black carbon isn't a greenhouse gas, but the soot particles warm the atmosphere by absorbing heat and reducing albedo when deposi ...

World Climate: Climate Change Negotiations Game

Topic(s): Climate Projections, Scenario Development, Climate Impacts, Mitigation Strategies, Adaptation Strategies, Human Responses to Climate

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16), Informal Education

learning environments, simplified simulators such as the Climate Bathtub Animation ([ or the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Simulator ([ may be more accessible or appropriate. Active role-playing scenarios ...

Carbon Calculator Activity

Topic(s): Anthropogenic Changes, Causes of Climate Change, Personal Responsibility, Human Responses to Climate, Energy Use

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)

are good tools for engaging students in discussions about the impacts of personal habits on greenhouse gas emissions. The methodology for engaging the students in the calculator exercise is clear. The ...

The Findings From Mauna Loa

Topic(s): Greenhouse Effect, Greenhouse Gases, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Measurements and Observations

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)

provided at the end of the activity to access current 30+-year data and graphs on carbon cycle gases from NOAA ESRL, which keeps the resource from becoming outdated: [link This activity is from the ...

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Climate Literacy Principles

Energy Literacy Principles

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