Climate Extra Resources

Here are extra resources related to topics for students to explore the topics further as well as resources to help strengthen their understanding of topics if they need topics explained more.

Articles

There are a number of great article and journals that discuss this very relevant and challenging topic. The news on a daily basis has new information coming to us, the difficulty is

Student Articles in Paper Cut

This is the school paper and students have written articles based on existing news reports. This is the November addition that two students wrote without the topic yet coming up in class.

Other News Article

The Ozone Layer Could Be Fully Healed By 2060, UN Report RevealsArticles about the environment can be extremely demoralizing – see September's IPCC report and the collapse of proposals to create the world's largest wild

This Beautiful Christmas Video Was Banned From TV For The Most Ridiculous Reason EverA UK supermarket has claimed its Christmas TV advert was pulled for being too political, after highlighting the plight of orangutans in the production of p

Oceans Have Soaked Up 60 Percent More Heat Than We ThoughtIf it wasn’t for our oceans, we would be well and truly screwed. Not only do they absorb heaps of our carbon emissions, but we also rely on them to soak up

What Colors Absorb More Heat?Dark colors, especially black, absorb more heat since they'll absorb more light from the environment. If you're trying to stay cool, wear light colors, which absorb less heat.

An Iceberg Bigger Than Manhattan Just Broke Off From AntarcticaA large iceberg that's considerably larger than Manhattan has broken off from Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier in a large calving event. Scientists had bee

Hope on climate change doesn't come easily — but action isn't futile | CBC NewsRecently I asked a roomful of 12-year-olds at a Vancouver school what words came to mind when they thought about climate change, and I got answers like “raging wildfires,” “the death of all animals,” and “the end of the world.”

Videos

There are a number of great videos and films that discuss this very relevant and challenging topic.

What if the Ice Melted?

Bill Nye! A man that is very vocal and can explain the hardest topics in the simplest way.

An Inconvenient Truth

Has become a bit outdated though still very relevant and gives individuals to see numbers and graphs to represent what has happened.

The Lorax

This is a fantastic film for many grade levels that really drives home the topic of sustainability and how we utilise our resources.

Ted Talk - Climate Change

Celebrity voices call for change at global climate conference | CBC NewsFamed British naturalist Sir David Attenborough told the UN climate conference in Poland that the "collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizons" if no urgent action is taken against global warming.

BBC News - Your World, Swedish Teen's Climate ProtestThis 15-year-old girl is raising awareness of climate issues at the Swedish parliament.

Images

Climate Change Effect

Effect of Climate Change on Natural Disasters

Greenhouse Gases

Greenhouse Effect

GAMES

NASA Climate

Earth Science Games

Atmosphere Games Quiz

Student Made Research Products

During an assessment students' made podcasts, videos, & websites. Here are links to a few of them.

Other Resources

Some former slide presentations done during class for this specific Unit. Climate Change, Earth's Atmosphere & Changes to it, Heat Transfer, Greenhouse Effect & Greenhouse Gases, Introduction to the Periodic Table.

1 Climate Change

2 Atmosphere

3 Heat Transfer, Greenhouse Effect, & “Global Warming”

4 Introduction to the Periodic Table

BBC Leading the Topics of Climate

BBC TOPIC LINKs

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Goals

Climate Change Unit Home Page

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