Teacher Resources
Greenhouse Effect Video Day 2: Stable URL. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JX-ioSmNW8&feature=youtu.be.
This video is the third in a seven part series on climate change available from the Academies of Natural Sciences at: http://nas-sites.org/americasclimatechoices/videos-multimedia/climate-change-lines-of-evidence-videos/
Global Footprint Network Day 3: Subscription is needed to take Ecological Footprint quiz: Network is located at: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/: Choose classroom level subscription: Subscription is by donation. Membership provides classroom access for ecological footprint analyses. Students will be able to measure various footprints online and have their scores archived for future reference. Membership also provides weekly newsletters from the network, along with other resources to study and promote sustainable activity.
AAAS Video on Climate Change: Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nZjrPoAlbU
This video introduces students to the debate on climate change. It details the effects of human activities (deforestation, excessive greenhouse gas emissions) on global temperatures and how increasing temperatures will affect our climate and all life on the planet. The video poses a challenges us to examine how our use of energy can ameliorate (or worsen) our current crisis.
Koshland Science Museum Webquest: Day 4 – 5
Koshland Science Museum Teacher Resources available at: https://www.koshland-science-museum.org/sites/default/files/uploaded-files/Global%20Warming%20Webquest%20Instructions%20for%20Teachers_0.pdf
Webquest used as Courtesy of the Marian Koshland Science Museum
of the National Academy of Sciences
Copyright © 2016 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
This site contains background information on the Webquest, along with evaluation rubrics, collaborative group assignments, standards used in the webquest, and additional websites, and resources that can be used to answer more specific and technical student inquiries. Note: additional websites can be included in the webquest if they are needed to answer more specific or technical questions posed by students: these websites can be found in the teacher resources page of the webquest site.
Global Climate Change Resources from AAAS located at: http://www.aaas.org/news/global-climate-change-resources
Many additional resources on climate change including: a second climate change movie
Ways to stop global warming, speeches by climate change activists, and a variety of news reports on climate change.
Carbon Cycle Video: Day 6
Video located at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d70iDxBtnas
The video focuses on the processes that trap carbon dioxide through photosynthesis, those that release it (cellular respiration, combustion, decomposition), and those that sequester it in fossil fuels. The video explains how carbon is cycled and stored in aquatic, terrestrial biomes and in the atmosphere and how the interaction of processes that capture and release carbon dioxide maintain the earth’s carbon balance.
Photosystems in Photosynthesis Day 7-8 : Stable URL: Available at:
http://faculty.southwest.tn.edu/rburkett/GB-1%20p27.jpg
Diagram of EMS: Day 9
Stable URL: Available at: http://www.astronomersgroup.org/images/EMspectrum.jpg
Dye Sensitized Solar Lab: High School Version: Day 10-12
Lab adapted (by permission) from Center for Chemical Innovation in Solar Fuels. Annelise Thompson, Editor. Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Juice from Juice, 2016. Lab manual located at: http://ccisolar.caltech.edu/files/03-DSSC-HS.doc
Additional DSSC Laboratory Guidelines, videos, and extension activities are available from the University of Wisconsin Madison University MRSEC: http://education.mrsec.wisc.edu/289.htm
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