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American Chemical Society, n.d, Accessed July 2020. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/climatescience/energybalance/predictedplanetarytemperatures.html.This site maintained by the American Chemical Society has resources for teachers and students on energy transfer from the sun, greenhouse gases, and climate change. It is very instructive on the science behind climate change, good for the basic facts!
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. “Asthma Capitals 2019” Accessed July 15, 2020. https://www.aafa.org/asthma-capitals-top-100-cities-ranking/
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. “Climate and Health” Accessed July 29, 2020. https://www.aafa.org/climate-and-health/. Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America provides information for allergy and asthma sufferers and also assesses the impact of air pollution and climate change on our ability to breathe.
Bernstein, Aaron. “A Conversation on COVID-19 with Dr. Aaron Bernstein, Director of Harvard Chan C-CHANGE” Harvard University C-Change Center School of Public Health, n.d. “Coronavirus, Climate Change, and the Environment” Accessed June 2020. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/subtopics/coronavirus-and climate change/. Harvard University’s TH Chan School of Public Health’s C-Change Center for Climate Health and the Global Environment publishes information that connects climate change to health impacts and has information about how COVID-19 and other infectious diseases are spreading more rapidly and causing more illness and greater mortality due to climate change.
Boss, Suzie, Larmer, John, and John Mergendoller PhD, 2018. PBL for 21st Century Success: Teaching Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, and Creativity, Buck Institute of Education. This book is designed to be a practical guide for middle and high school teachers to implement project-based learning (PBL) including sample projects, rubrics and the integration of technology.
City of Philadelphia, n.d. “Climate Change Adaptation”Accessed July 15, 2020. https://www.phila.gov/water/sustainability/Pages/ClimateChange.aspx. The City of Philadelphia, well aware that climate change is happening, has produced this comprehensive report looking at the myriad of impacts that the city is likely to face.
Fourth National Assessment Summary Findings. United States Global Change Research Program, Accessed July 2020. https://nca2018.globalchange.gov. The Global Change Research Act of 1990 requires that the US Global Change Research Program present a report to Congress and the President every four years with updates on climate. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) serves as the lead agency for compiling this report that details the effects of climate change.
Fourth National Assessment Chapter 18: Northeast. United States Global Change Research Program, Accessed July 2020. https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/chapter/18/
Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data. Environmental Protection Agency. Accessed July 2020. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data. The Environmental Protection Agency site has a breakdown of different types of greenhouse gases, their sources and their relative strengths in impacting global warming.
Human Development Report 2019. United Nations Development Programme, Accessed July 2020. http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr2019.pdf
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, n.d. Accessed June 2020. https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5_summary-for-policymakers.pdf. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg3/. This is the Fifth Assessment Report for Climate Change for IPCC (2014). Climate Change Report: Mitigation of Climate Change. This is a technical document for Summary for Policymakers that outlines energy use changes that will assist in mitigating climate change. Also included here is a link to Figure 3 as reprinted by epa.gov.
Jahren, Hope. Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where We Go from Here Penguin Random House, 2020. Jahren is a well-respected geobiologist and geochemist currently at the University of Oslo. She has compiled extensive statistical data to strengthen the argument that our need for MORE of everything (travel, food, electricity, plastics, sugar) has led to the current climate crisis and the only way forward is to want less and more equitably distribute what we already have.
Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth, “I’m a Black Climate Scientist” Washington Post, June 3, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/03/im-black-climate-scientist-racism-derails-our-efforts-save-planet/. This article by marine biologist and climate scientist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson addresses the need to confront race issues in America so that all of us can turn our thoughts towards mitigating and adapting to climate change. The author also helps make connections between racial inequities, vulnerable populations and climate change consequences.
Lindsey, Rebecca “Climate Change: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Climate.gov. February 20, 2020. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate.gov publishes a stunning array of graphs and data regarding climate change. Some of these are interactive graphs allowing students to set different parameters and see the effect. Others are fixed graphs suitable for printing and sharing with students.
NASA Global Climate Change: NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). Accessed July 15, 2020. “Global Temperature” https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/
National Resources Defense Council. https://www.nrdc.org/stories/philadelphia-climate-change-can-take-your-breath-away. National Resource Defense Council article from 2017 on projections for the issues Philadelphia will face due to climate change.
“Overview of Greenhouse Gases” Environmental Protection Agency. Accessed July 2020. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases
Pennsylvania Department of Education, n.d. Accessed June 2020. https://www.stateboard.education.pa.gov/Documents/Regulations%20and%20Statements/State%20Academic%20Standards/Academic%20Standards%20for%20Environment%20and%20Ecology.pdf. List of Pennsylvania State Standards for the Environment and Ecology across grade bands.
School District of Philadelphia. philasd.org. Accessed June 2020. https://dashboards.philasd.org/extensions/philadelphia/index.html#/. This portion of the School District of Philadelphia’s website allows viewers to see enrollment and demographic data for a specific school as well as overall testing scores, suspensions, and attendance data.
Sixth Assessment Report. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Accessed June and July 2020. https://www.ipcc.ch. IPCC stands for The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change. The Sixth Assessment Report is being written now to be in progress now for full release by 2022. According to the website: Since 1988, the IPCC has had five assessment cycles and delivered five Assessment Reports, the most comprehensive scientific reports about climate change produced worldwide.
“Understanding Global Warming Potentials” Environmental Protection Agency, Accessed July 2020. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/understanding-global-warming-potentials#Learn%20why. Each greenhouse gas has a different life span and a different warming potential. This site explains the metric used for comparing greenhouse gases and their contribution to the problem of climate change. Carbon Dioxide is the base greenhouse gas, assigned a value of “1” against which all other gases are compared.
World Weather Attribution, Accessed July 2020. www.worldweatherattribution.org World Weather Attribution studies specific weather events and determines the level to which they believe the event was connected to climate change. They make a determination whether there was an increased likelihood that an event occurred due to climate changes or were more intense due to climate changes.
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