Climate Change Grades 5-8 Your Global Warming Guide
EBOTM2132
$25.99 CAD
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- Author : Gentleman, Darcy
Students will learn about climate change through the hands-on experiments on green houses gases, weather and climate, measuring climate change, the heating and cooling of the earth and the push and pull of climate change. The activities help structure students conceptual understanding of climate change. Through a series of hands-on and thought experiments followed by questions build students’ analytical thinking skills. Therefore, whether or not students further pursue science, as later citizens, they will be able to reason through the factors that affect issues of central concern of society regarding climate change.
This is accomplished through a series of hands-on and thorough experiments followed by questions to build students' analytical thinking skills.
Divided into these five parts:
1. Weather and Climate
- What is Weather?
- Climates of the World
- Weather or Climate?
- Weather Patterns Make Climates
- Ask an Expert
2. Measuring Change
- Measuring Change
- Ideas of Change
- Short Term Change and Long Term Change
- Temperature Trends
- Watering Changes
3. The Greenhouse Effect
- Air Inventory
- Can We Control Climate?
- How Does a Greenhouse Work?
- Clouds Over the Greenhouse
- Greenhouses are Traps
- Humidity
a) What is Humidity?
b) Measuring Humidity
- Air in the Greenhouse
- Carbon Dioxide and Greenhouses
- A Natural Greenhouse
4. Heating and Cooling the Earth
- The Color of Earth
- Will the Earth Heat Evenly?
- Water and Ice and Heat
- Feedback
- Moving Water in the Oceans
- Changing the Current
- Rising Seas and Shores
- Icebergs and Sea Level
- Glaciers and Sea Level
5. The Push and Pull of Climate Change
- Relative Impact
- Local Affects Global
- Natural and Artificial
- Sources and Sinks
- Debating Pollution
- An Inconvenient Truth Graphing
- Are Clouds Good or Bad?
- Cities and Climate
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