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Subject: Atmospheric Science
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What Should We Do About Global Warming? part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
This module contains an 8-lesson curriculum to study greenhouse gases and global warming using data and visualizations. The students will summarize the issue in a mock debate or a presentation. -
Resource Type: Activities:Project
Mock Environmental Summit part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
At the end of a six-week class or unit on global warming, students role-play representatives from various countries and organizations at an international summit on global warming. -
Resource Type: Activities:Project
Weather Map Interpretation part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Gallery Walks:Examples
Students participate in a Gallery Walk to combine weather variables and create weather forecasts based on four different weather maps.
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video, Maps, Activities:Classroom Activity:Gallery Walk, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations
Global Temperatures part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with Data:Examples
Students analyze the global temperature record from 1867 to the present. Long-term trends and shorter-term fluctuations are both evaluated. -
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Activities:Lab Activity
Modern CO2 part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with Data:Examples
Students compare carbon dioxide (CO2) data from Mauna Loa Observatory, Barrow (Alaska), and the South Pole over the paast 40 years to help them better understand what controls atmospheric CO2. -
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Activities:Lab Activity
Earth's Radiation Budget part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with Data:Examples
In this activity students explore the Earth's radiation budget using Earth radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) data archived at the IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library (more info) . -
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Activities:Lab Activity
Vostok Ice Core: Excel (Mac or PC) part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Mathematical and Statistical Models:Mathematical and Statistical Models Examples
Students use Excel to graph and analyze Vostok ice core data (160,000 years of Ice core data from Vostok Station). Data includes ice age, ice depth, carbon dioxide, methane, dust, and deuterium ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity
Hurricane Visualizations part of Cutting Edge:Visualization:Visualization Collections
Compiled by Jen Millner at Montana State University and John McDaris at SERC. Find satellite images and visualizations that illustrate how these violent weather systems form and function, as well as ...
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video
Runaway Greenhouse Effect Exercise part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
This site has a collection of role-playing exercises that provide the students with equations and data to use in collaborative problem-solving. -
Resource Type: Activities:Project, Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Glacial geology in the field part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
Students describe and interpret glacial features exposed in gravel pits and outcrops. -
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity:Field laboratories
