Resources
Teacher Content Resources
http://unfccc.int/essential_background/feeling_the_heat/items/2918.php
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Site
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/index.htm
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis
http://www.pewclimate.org/global-warming-in-depth/
Global Warming In depth great resource to gathers information to teach students a more close examination of the global warming.
Student Resource Binder Articles
Abu-Asab, M.S., Peterson, P.M., Shetler, S.G. & Orli, S.S. (2001).
Earlier plant flowering in spring as a response to global
warming in the Washington, DC, area. Biodiversity and
Conservation, 10, 597-612.
Butler, C.J. (2003). The disproportionate effect of global warming on the arrival dates of short-distance migratory birds in North
America. Ibis, (145), 484-495.
Dale, V.H. (1997, August). The relationship between land-use
change and climate change. Ecological Applications, 7(3),
753-769.
Dunn, P.O. & Winkler, D.W. (1999, December 22). Climate change has affected the
breeding date of tree swallows throughout North America.
Biological Sciences, 266(1437), 2487-2490.
Gehrels, W.R., Kirby, J.R., Prokoph, A., Newnham, R.M.,
Achterbert, E.P., Evans, H., Black, S., & Scott, D.B. (2005).
Onset of recent rapid sea-level rise in the western Atlantic
Ocean. Quaternary Science Reviews, 24, 2083-2100.
Jacoby, G.C. & D'Arrigo, R.D. (1997, August). Tree rings,
carbon dioxide, and climatic change. PNAS, 94, 8350-8353.
Jensen, M.N. (2004, August). Climate warming shakes up species. BioScience, 54(8),
722-729.
Lake, P.S., Palmer, M.A., Biro, P., Cole, J., Covich, A.P., Dahm, C., Gibert, J.,
Goedkoop, W., Martens, K., & Verhoeven, J. (2000, December). Global change
and the biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems: Impacts on linkages between
above-sediment and sediment biota. BioScience, 50(12), 1099-1107.
Li, M.H., Krauchi, N., & Gao, S.P. (2006). Global warming: Can existing reserves really
preserve current levels of biological diversity? Journal of Integrative Plant
Biology, 48(3), 255-259.
McCarty, J.P. (2001, April). Ecological consequences of recent climate change.
Conservation Biology, 15(2), 320-331.
Pounds, J.A., Bustamante, M.R., Coloma, L.A., Consuegra, J.A., Fogden, M.P.L., Foster,
P.N., LaMarca, E., Masters, K.L., Merino-Viteri, A., Puschendorf, R., Ron, S.R.,
Sanchez-Azofeifa, G.A., Still, C.J., & Young, B.E. (2006, January 12).
Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global
warming. Nature, 439, 161-167.
Rustad, L.E., Huntington, T.G., & Boone, R.D. (2000). Controls
on soil respiration: Implications for climate change.
Biogeochemistry, 48, 1-6.
Saxe, H., Cannell, M.G.R., Johnsen, O., Ryan, M.G., & Vourlitis,
G. (2001, March). Tree and forest functioning in response to
global warming. New Phytologist, 149(3), 369-399.
Schlesinger, W.H., & Andrews, J.A. (2000). Soil respiration and
the global carbon cycle. Biogeochemistry, 48, 7-20.
Schwartz, M.D., Ahas, R., & Aasa, A. (2006). Onset of spring starting earlier across the
Northern Hemisphere. Global Change Biology, 12, 343-351.
Stachowicz, J.J., Terwin, J.R., Whitlatch, R.B., & Osman, R.W.
(2002, November 26). Linking climate change and
biological invasions: Ocean warming facilitates
nonindigenous species invasions. PNAS, 99(24), 15497-
15000.
Vinnikov, K.Y., & Grody, N.C. (2003, October 10). Global
warming trend of mean tropospheric temperature observed by
satellites. Science, 302, 269-272.
Vorosmarty, C.J, Green, P., Salisbury, J., & Lammers, R.B. (2000,
July 14). Global water resources: Vulnerability from climate
change and population growth. Science, 289(5477), 284-288.
Vorosmarty, C.J. & Sahagian, D. (2000, September).
Anthropogenic disturbance of the terrestrial water cycle.
BioScience, 50(9), 753-765.
Zhang,K, Douglas,B.C., & Leatherman, S.P. (2004). Global
warming and coastal erosion. Climatic Change, 64, 41-58.
Teaching Resources
Background on the Atmosphere - Week 1
[1] http://www.earth.uni.edu/EECP/mid/mod5_ma.html
Constructing three dimensional models of greenhouse gases to illustrate their heat trapping abilities
[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3115409.stm
BBC Article — Ozone benefits from treaty
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_circulation
Wikipedia article on atmospheric circulation
[4] http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/EDDOCS/scierbe.html
Lab to explore albedo using colored paper.
Background on Global Warming - Week 2
[5] http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
Trends in Atmospheric CO2 that students can observe
[6] http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/co2_data_mlo.php
Observe graph of monthly mean atmospheric carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii
[7] http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/projects/src/web/trends/co2_mm_mlo.dat
Actual data monthly mean atmospheric carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii
[8] http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A.txt
Global mean temperature data from 1880-2005
[9] http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/
Plot of global mean temperature data
[10] https://www.fueleconomy.gov/mpg/MPG.do?action=browseList
Fuel economy measurements for cars
Affect of Global Warming on Soils - Week 3
[11] http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/
Portal to all of the 2300 soil surveys nationwide where you can find your county survey
[12] http://soils.usda.gov/survey/how_to/
How to use a soil survey if you need some pointers
[13] http://www.globe.gov/tctg/sectionpdf.jsp?sectionId=91&rg=n&lang=en
GLOBE soil characterization protocol
[14] http://viz.globe.gov/viz-bin/home.cgi?l=en&b=g&rg=n
GLOBE website visualization home page to make graphs of environmental data
Use to make a soil moisture map of the world for this section of unit
Affect of Global Warming on Plants and Trees - Week 4
[15] http://nationalmap.gov/gio/viewonline.html
Links to the different websites you will be able to have your students view aerial photographs of your local area.
[16] http://www.globe.gov/tctg/sectionpdf.jsp?sectionId=210&rg=n&lang=en
GLOBE biometry protocol to determine the vegetation types in an area
Affect of Land Cover on Global Warming - Week 5
[17] http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/rpif/landsat/STATE_A-G.html#DE
Free! Landsat images from each state
[18] http://www.globe.gov/tctg/sectionpdf.jsp?sectionId=211&rg=n&lang=en
GLOBE project manual interpretation of Landsat imagery
[19] http://www.geery.com/Norfork_MUC.htm
MUC table to help determine the local land cover types
[20] http://archive.globe.gov/tctg/land_la_analyze.pdf?sectionId=226
Activity that students use GLOBE data to analyze land cover
Affect of Global Warming on Aquatics - Week 6
[21][1] http://topomaps.usgs.gov/
Source of topographic maps to use with students
[22] http://www.globe.gov/tctg/sectionpdf.jsp?sectionId=150&rg=n&lang=en
GLOBE water temperature protocol
[23] http://www.globe.gov/tctg/sectionpdf.jsp?sectionId=152&rg=n&lang=en
GLOBE water pH protocol
[24] http://nowcoast.noaa.gov/
Real time observations of conditions along the coastal areas of the US
[25] http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Observatory/Datasets/sst.ocean.html
Ocean surface temperature animation
Sea Level Rise from Global Warming - Week 7
[26] http://www.athropolis.com/map2.htm
Map to visualize the arctic region
[27] http://www.net.org/globalwarming/sea_level/
Animations of many US with the onset of sea level rise
Affect of Global Warming on Animals - Week 8
[28] http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/studying/migration/range_maps
Range maps of common songbirds
[29] http://www.birds.cornell.edu/birdhouse/
Information and data collection of nesting box trails
[30]http://gbbc.birdsource.org/gbbcApps/report?cmd=showReport&reportName=StateSummary&state=US-DE
Backyard bird count data from the National Audubon Society
[31] http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0409/feature3/fulltext.html
National Geographic article on the effect of global warming on the
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