Solving Environmental Problems through Engineering

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 20.04.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction and Rationale
  2. The History of Climate Change
  3. Climate Change Basics: The science behind rising temperatures.
  4. The Greenhouse Gases: More than just CO2
  5. Climate Change: What happens as global temperatures rise.
  6. Climate Change: What are we going to do?
  7. Philadelphia: One city’s likely scenario in the coming climate crisis.
  8. Unit Planning for Middle School Students Studying Climate Change
  9. Pedagogy and Teaching Strategies for this Unit.
  10. Lesson Activities
  11. Bibliography
  12. Endnotes
  13. Appendix on Implementing District Standards

Engineers Wanted: Climate Change Experience Necessary!

Rachel Odoroff

Published September 2020

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Endnotes

1 “Henry C. Lea School” School District of Philadelphia. Accessed June 14, 2020. https://dashboards.philasd.org/extensions/philadelphia/index.html#/

2 “Henry C. Lea School” School District of Philadelphia. Accessed June 14, 2020. https://dashboards.philasd.org/extensions/philadelphia/index.html#/

3 Ayanna Elizabeth Johnson “I’m a Black Climate Scientist” Washingtopost.com, June 3, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/03/im-black-climate-scientist-racism-derails-our-efforts-save-planet/

4 “Fourth National Assessment Summary Findings” United States Global Change Research Program, Accessed July 2020. https://nca2018.globalchange.gov

5 Aaron Bernstein. “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/

6 “Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II “ Ebi, K.L., J.M. Balbus, G. Luber, A. Bole, A. Crimmins, G. Glass, S. Saha, M.M. Shimamoto, J. Trtanj, and J.L. White-Newsome, 2018: Human Health. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Accessed July 29, 2020. https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/chapter/14/

7 “Overview of Greenhouse Gases Methane Emissions” Environmental Protection Agency, Accessed July 2020. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases#methane.

8 Hope Jahren, The Story of More (Penguin Random House.),) 30-31.

9 Hope Jahren, The Story of More (Penguin Random House.), 32-33.

10 Hope Jahren, The Story of More (Penguin Random House.), 45,71.

11 “Human Development Report 2019” United Nations Development Programme, Accessed July 2020, 178. http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr2019.pdf

12 “IPCC” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Accessed June 2020. Ipcc.ch.

13 “Sixth Assessment Report” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Accessed June/July 2020. ipcc.ch

14 “The Study of Earth as an Integrated System” NASA Climate.gov. Accessed July 15, 2020. https://climate.nasa.gov/nasa_science/science/

15 “Global Temperature” NASA Global Climate Change: NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/

16 “Understanding Global Warming Potentials” Environmental Protection Agency, Accessed July 2020. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/understanding-global-warming-potentials#Learn%20why

17 “Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data” Environmental Protection Agency. Accessed July 2020. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data and https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg3/

18 “Overview of Greenhouse Gases Methane Emissions” Environmental Protection Agency, Accessed July 2020. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases#methane.

19 “Overview of Greenhouse Gases Nitrous Oxide Emissions” Environmental Protection Agency, Accessed July 2020. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases#methane.

20 “Overview of Greenhouse Gases Carbon Dioxide Emissions” Environmental Protection Agency, Accessed July 2020. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases#methane

21 Rebecca Lindsey “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

22 Environmental Protection Agency, Accessed July 2020. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data

23 “Weather vs. Climate” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Accessed July 2020. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/weather-vs-climate.

24 “Summary Report for Policymakers on Climate Change and Land” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/summary-for-policymakers/

25 “Chapter 25: Southwest” Fourth National Climate Assessment. Accessed July 2020. https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/chapter/25/

26 “Chapter 18: Northeast” Fourth National Climate Assessment. Accessed July 2020. https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/chapter/18/

27 “About World Weather Attribution” World Weather Attribution. Accessed July 2020. https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/about/

28 “Attribution of Australian bushfire risk to Anthropogenic Climate Change.” World Weather Attribution. January 10, 2020. https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/bushfires-in-australia-2019-2020/

29 “Latest Analyses” World Weather Attribution. July 27, 2019, August 2, 2019, July 2, 2019.https://www.worldweatherattribution.org.

30 “Climate Change Adaptation” City of Philadelphia. Accessed July, 2020. https://www.phila.gov/water/sustainability/Pages/ClimateChange.aspx

31 “Asthma Capitals 2019” Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. Accessed July 15, 2020. https://www.aafa.org/asthma-capitals-top-100-cities-ranking/

32 “Climate and Health” Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. Accessed July 29, 2020. https://www.aafa.org/climate-and-health/

33 Suzie Boss, John Larmer, and John Mergendoller PhD. PBL for 21st Century Success. (Buck Institute of Education, 2018), 25-26.

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