Scientific Debate and the Nature of Certainty part of Integrate:Program Design:InTeGrate Program Models:Gustavus Adolphus:Teaching Activities
Students discuss and learn about the nature of scientific knowledge in the context of scientific and non-scientific debates about climate change. This 50-minute module can be taught in a small- to very large-size introductory religion, philosophy or ethics class.

Is Warming Natural or Anthropogenic? part of Integrate:Program Design:InTeGrate Program Models:University of Northern Colorado:Activities
Students use climate model output to compare past, present and future climate and consider the impacts of human activity on climate.

Global Climate Change: Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf part of Integrate:Program Design:InTeGrate Program Models:Gustavus Adolphus:Teaching Activities
This mini-module describes a two-day mini-unit integrating global climate changein Woolf's book Orlando: A Biography. The module connects historical climate records to literary descriptions, discusses the difference between weather and climate, and invites conversation about climate-driven trends in phenology.

Teaching Scientific Certainty: Climate Change and Impact on Biodiversity part of Integrate:Program Design:InTeGrate Program Models:Gustavus Adolphus:Teaching Activities
The goal of this module, developed at Gustavus Adolphus College for the InTeGrate project, is to introduce college students to the general concepts of scientific theory versus facts, scientific certainty and the role experts particularly in the context of climate change. The module also focuses on a recent paper discussing climate departure, and its impact on human society and biodiversity.

Climate Change and Migratory Behavior part of Integrate:Program Design:InTeGrate Program Models:Gustavus Adolphus:Teaching Activities
In this 50-minute guided lecture, students learn the peculiar threats to migratory animals, given the projected spatial variability of climate change on the planet. This activity uses a climate departure analysis to assess threat to the monarch butterfly.

Introducing the economic concept of 'tragedy of the commons' using global warming part of Integrate:Program Design:InTeGrate Program Models:Gustavus Adolphus:Teaching Activities
This one-day module for an introductory economics class uses global warming as an example of 'the tragedy of the commons' principle.

Climate Change and the Arctic part of Integrate:Program Design:InTeGrate Program Models:Gustavus Adolphus:Teaching Activities
Students will learn about the physical changes occurring in the Arctic and the local and global physical, climatic, and human impacts of these changes.

Global Climate Change: Understanding the Science / Understanding the Impacts part of Integrate:Program Design:InTeGrate Program Models:Gustavus Adolphus:Teaching Activities
This module introduces students to the basic science of climate change, as well as the concepts of vulnerability and adaptation in the context of climate change in different regions of the world.

Exercise in a Changing Climate part of Integrate:Program Design:InTeGrate Program Models:Gustavus Adolphus:Teaching Activities
Using the question of how exercise and sporting events might be affected by climate, students are led to the basic questions of what causes climate change, how our climate might change, and what affect that might have on athletes and anyone undertaking strenuous exercise.

Monsoons in a Changing Climate part of Integrate:Program Design:InTeGrate Program Models:Gustavus Adolphus:Teaching Activities
In this mini-module, students are introduced to the mechanisms of the African monsoon and explore the relationship between climate feedback and changes to the monsoon. It concludes with an illustration of how those changes are affecting the people who live there and generating political instability.