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    Paleoclimate part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
    Lenore Teevan, School of Innovation/Springfield City School District
    This is a unit plan for project-based learning. Students will learn about paleoclimate proxies and their importance in understanding past climates. Students will focus on one region-specific aspect of paleoclimate ...

    Grade Level: High School (9-12)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Project
    Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Climate/Paleoclimate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Natural causes, Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Glacial/Periglacial, Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Paleoclimate records, History and evolution of Earth's climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Natural causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:History and evolution of Earth's climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    Case Study 5.2 - Interpretations: Reading the Book of Earth part of Climate of Change
    Cynthia Fadem, Earlham College
    I designed this activity to provide students with a comprehensive experience working with real climate data. Students graph, analyze, and critically interpret ice core data from Greenland. You can implement this ...

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities
    Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Anthropogenic causes, Natural causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Natural causes, Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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    CLEAN Selected This activity has been selected for inclusion in the CLEAN collection.
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    Tools and Methods in Environmental Science: Ice Cores part of PENGUIN:PENGUIN Modules
    Penny Rowe, NorthWest Research Associates
    Students gain experience with tools and methods of Environmental science through exploring the paleoclimate record using ice cores as climate proxies. They learn what causes natural climate change and how it is ...

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities
    Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Natural causes, Greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Greenhouse gas emissions, Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Natural causes
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    Understanding the Carbon Cycle: A Jigsaw Approach part of Climate Change:Activities
    David Hastings, Eckerd College
    In this "jigsaw" exercise, each student is assigned one of five geochemical processes in the carbon cycle to research, fully understand, and then explain to others in groups of five. At the end of class ...

    Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity:Jigsaw, Activities:Classroom Activity
    Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Atmospheric structure and composition, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Natural causes, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Biogeochemical cycling, Environmental Science:Policy, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Natural causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Atmospheric gases
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
    CLEAN Selected This activity has been selected for inclusion in the CLEAN collection.
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    Introduction to Global Climate Change Through Classroom Discussion part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Systems, Society, Sustainability and the Geosciences:Activities
    Becca Edwards, Southwestern University
    A classroom discussion about global climate change designed for a general undergraduate classroom. Discussion is facilitated by a 10-15 minute brainstorming session or gallery walk.

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities
    Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Natural causes, Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Natural causes, Anthropogenic causes
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    Viewpoint on Causes of Global Warming - An Assignment Using Anonymous Electronic Peer Review With a Dropbox part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Peer Review:Examples
    Laura Guertin, Penn State Brandywine
    This is an anonymous electronic peer review exercise that utilizes a dropbox, where students detail and support their viewpoint on nonhuman-induced global warming. -

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
    Resource Type: Activities: Assessments:Peer Assessment, Activities:Writing Assignment
    Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Natural causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Atmospheric gases, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Natural causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review