Classroom Activities for Teaching Public Policy in the Earth Sciences

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Comparing Carbon Calculators part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with Data:Examples
Carbon calculators, no matter how well intended as tools to help measure energy footprints, tend to be black boxes and can produce wildly different results, depending on the calculations used to weigh various ...

Subject: Policy: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science:Energy:Efficiency and Energy Conservation, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Biogeochemical cycling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Atmospheric gases, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Decision-Making
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching

Teaching Climate Science by Studying Misinformation part of Cutting Edge:Climate Change:Activities
Students critically evaluate the arguments about climate change raised in a climate contrarian newspaper op-ed. This strengthens student critical thinking and content knowledge.

Subject: Policy: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Public policy, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Policy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Public policy , Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Natural causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Natural causes, Anthropogenic causes
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, :Classroom Activity

The Lifestyle Project part of Activities
This three-week project challenges students to learn about environmental alternatives by modifying their own lifestyles. Throughout the project, students reduce their impacts on the environment by changing the way ...

Subject: Policy: Environmental Science:Energy:Efficiency and Energy Conservation, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Water Conservation, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Public policy , Environmental Science:Waste:Waste Solid :Waste Reduction/Recycling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Ethics/Values, Environmental Decision-Making, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Public policy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project

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. -

Subject: Policy: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Public policy , Greenhouse effect, Anthropogenic causes, Paleoclimate records, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Public policy, Environmental Science:Policy:Global Policy, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Greenhouse effect, Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Geoscience:Atmospheric Science
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, :Project

Transnational Pollution: Why Are You Dumping on Me? part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
The purpose of this lesson is to familiarize students with the different types of transnational pollution, by having them role-play in a hypothetical disaster on the Danube River. -

Subject: Policy: Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Management and Policy, Environmental Science:Policy:Global Policy, Geoscience:Geology, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Habitats
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, :Classroom Activity

Mass Balance to Understand Atmospheric CFCs part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with Data:Examples
Students use an interactive online mass balance model help understand the observed levels of chlorofluorocarbon CFC-12 over the recent past. -

Subject: Policy: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Ozone depletion, Environmental Science:Policy:Global Policy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Atmospheric structure and composition
Resource Type: Activities: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Activities:Lab Activity

JiTT - Ethics of Fossil Collecting part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Just in Time Teaching:Examples
1) What do you think it means for a fossil resource to be "abused"? 2) What's the issue with fossil hunting on federal land (such as National Parks)? Explain what your interpretation of the conflict ...

Subject: Policy: Geoscience:Paleontology, Environmental Science:Policy:Local Policy
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Just in Time Teaching

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Water Resources part of Cutting Edge:Hydrogeology:Activities
This activity will demonstrate how water quality and environmental health issues can be analyzed together, how hydrologic information can be built up, and how decisions can be made using GIS.

Subject: Policy: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water and society, policy, and management, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Quality/Chemistry , Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water , Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Decision-Making, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water quality/chemistry , Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Management and Policy
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Classroom Activity

Service Learning and Local Hydrogeology in the Classroom: An example from Anchorage, Alaska part of Cutting Edge:Hydrogeology:Activities
A semester long project in which students work in small groups to analyze a local hydrogeology issue of importance to the community.

Subject: Policy: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Groundwater flow, Water quality/chemistry , Water and society, policy, and management, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water , Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Aquifer properties, Environmental Science:Policy:Local Policy
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project:Service Learning

Western water law project part of Cutting Edge:Hydrogeology:Activities
This activity allows students to use role-playing to learn about the connection between surface water and ground water.

Subject: Policy: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water and society, policy, and management, Water cycle/groundwater-surface water interface, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Management and Policy, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Groundwater , Environmental Science:Policy:State Policy, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Geology of groundwater occurrence, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Writing Assignment

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