CLIMATE
Unit outline- Michalak 2024
WEBSITES OF INTEREST
01_inuit perspectives on climate change
Inuit perspectives on climate change - YouTube 42min
Article - These 3 Super trees can protect us from climate collapse" (Vox, December 2019)
Website: Project Drawdown - Climate Solutions Resource
video - greenhouse gas warming demonstration (3:59)
video - Why do leaves change colour and fall? (2:11)
video - The Real Reason Leaves Change Colour in the Fall (Minute Earth, 2:29)
The En-ROADS Climate Interactive
Let's Talk Science Biofuels literacy
Bill Nye: 5 Stages of Climate Grief , accompanying worksheet
Bill Nye's Global Meltdown - vimeo 44:30min
Online calculator- figure out what score you need on the culminating to obtain your your goal of a final mark
01_inuit perspectives on climate change
1. Introduction – Climate Change: Weather vs. Climate
Video Lesson - Introduction to Climate Change - What's the difference between weather and climate? (9:03)
Big Questions Brainstorm Activity – What do you know about climate change?
What's the difference between weather and climate? - ppt
Climate Change Misconceptions - Stephen Colbert
Video - Weather vs. Climate (National Geographic, 2:09)
Video - Global Warming 101 (National Geographic, 3:03)
Weather and Climate - student worksheet
Weather and Climate Review - powerpoint
video - Futurama - Climate Change
video - Climate Factors - LOWERN
video - Understanding Climate and Lower Near Water 11:02
319-321, 323, 328-329
2. Lesson: Principal components of the Earth’s climate system
Video Lesson - Learning to read a climatograph, Earth's climate components (18:23)
Toronto Climate - Learning to read a Climatograph - powerpoint lesson
Earth's Climate Components and Seasons - powerpoint lesson
Video - Why do we have different seasons? (California Academy of Sciences, 3:16)
Video - Ocean Currents and Climate (National Geographic, 2:33)
Video - Bang Goes the Theory - solar furnace (1:43)
Why do we have seasons? The effects of the Earth’s rotation, revolution and tilt
Earth Climate Components - worksheet and notes
Arctic Midnight Sun(2:16)
Winter Solstice in Fairbanks Alaska(2:05)
video - Bill Nye explains the seasons (4:45)
Assignment: Making Climatographs – average temperature and precipitation in Toronto over 150 years
Climatograph assignment, analysis questions
325-328
3. Energy Transfer and the Earth’s Energy Balance
Modes of energy transfer: radiation, conduction, convection
Concepts and terms: electromagnetic radiation, albedo, heat sink;
Video Lesson - Earth's Energy Balance and Methods of Energy Transfer (14:58)
Earth's Energy Balance and Methods of Energy Transfer - powerpoint lesson
Earth's Energy Balance Homework Questions - powerpoint
Video - Heat Transfer: Conduction, Convection and Radiation (Mike Sammartano - 4:26)
Video - What is Albedo? (CSHubMIT, 3:02)
Video - Fire Water Balloon - conduction and heat capacity (Sick Science, 3:06)
Video - Convection currents (3:04)
Video - Gas convection current demonstration (3:26)
Earth's Energy Balance notes - powerpoint
Earth's Energy Balance student
Earth's Energy Balance - teacher
Earth's Energy Balance - homework solutions - powerpoint
Demonstrations: radiation, conduction, convection
video - Misconceptions about temperature (Veritasium, 3:58)
325-328
4. The Earth’s Atmosphere – composition, importance for living things, atmospheric circulation, atmospheric layers. Textbook pages
Energy Balance Review Multiple Choice
The Atmosphere - powerpoint lesson
video_The Sacred Balance: An astronaut's view of the earth (CBC, 2:32)
video - Reveal Earth's Atmosphere (National Geographic, 4:56)
video - 350.org (Why is 350 so important?) (350.org, 1:37)
Atmospheric Pressure Activities!
Video - Why does the water rise? (Candle and water activity) (Sick Science, 1:04)
Video - How to crush a can with air pressure (Sick Science, 0:59)
Video - How to get an egg into a bottle (Sick Science, 3:57)
Video - Mythbusters crushing a tanker car (4:31)
video - atmospheric pressure crushing a container (Veritasium, 5:00)
Demonstrations: atmospheric pressure
Worksheet: The Hydrosphere
The Hydrosphere worksheet - solutions
330-334, 344-345
5. Activity: Quick Lab - Investigating Albedo
Quick Lab: Investigating Albedo
6. The Greenhouse Effect (Natural and Anthropogenic) – anthropogenic (definition), Natural greenhouse Effect, Anthropogenic/Enhanced Greenhouse Effect, sources of greenhouse gases (GHGs)
Greenhouse Gases, The Natural and Anthropogenic Greenhouse Effect - powerpoint lesson
Video - Greenhouse effect - Keeling Curve - YouTube 6:54
Video - How do Greenhouse Gases actually work? (Minute Earth, 3:08)
PhET simulation - The Greenhouse Effect
The Greenhouse Effect - worksheet
PFTBA GHG article - questions, solutions
338-342, 384-389
7. Long and Short-term Changes in Climate
Plate tectonics, interglacial periods and ice ages, volcanic eruptions, solar radiation cycles, air and ocean currents
Long and Short-term Cycles in Climate - powerpoint lesson
Interactive - Milankovitch Cycles in Ice Ages (McGraw-Hill)
Interactive - Milankovitch Cycles (University of Wisconsin)
Video - Minute Earth - Plate Tectonics (2:36)
Video - El Nino - What is it? (4 minutes)
Long and Short-term Changes in Climate - student
Long and Short-term Changes in Climate - teacher
348-352
Ice ages and Astronomy Solutions
8. Studying Clues to Past Climate
Studying Clues to Past Climate - powerpoint lesson
Video - National Science Foundation - ice cores and climate change (5 minutes)
Tree ring simulation interactive
Proxy records, ice cores, tree rings, coral reefs, rock and ocean sediment
Studying clues to past climate examples - ppt
Studying clues to past climates - teacher
Studying clues to past climates - student
Climate and Tree Growth Quick Lab
Quick lab - Climate and tree growth
Qick lab - Climate and tree growth - solutions
358-360
9. Lesson: Evidence of a Changing Climate
Evidence for Climate Change - powerpoint lesson
video - What is coral bleaching? (TIME, 1:37)
video - Climate Change Facts (CNN, 2:24 minutes)
video - National Geographic - Coral Bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef (3 minutes)
Rising temperatures, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, changes in severe weather, changes in precipitation patterns, changes in ecosystems;
Evidence for Climate Change - student
Evidence for Climate Change - teacher
Graphing the Evidence Assignment:
Graphing the Evidence pen and paper
Activity - Graphing the Evidence - questions
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10. Design Lab – Preserving Habitat
10_Climate Change Inquiry Lab.doc
11. Feedback Loops and Climate
Feedback Loops and Climate Change - powerpoint lesson
video - Why the Arctic is climate change's canary in the coal mine (TED-ED, 3:58)
video - 120 seconds of science - What is the ice albedo feedback? (2 minutes)
video - What is the Ice-Albedo feedback? (Geobus St. Andrews, 1:19)
Activity: Warming the Arctic Feedback Loop
Feedback Loops and Climate Change - teacher
355-357, 388-389, 393-395
12. Effects of Climate Change
video: National Geographic - Climate Change Impacts (3 minutes)
Effects of Climate Change - powerpoint lesson
Effects of Climate Change - student
Effects of Climate Change - teacher
Effect of Climate Change Jigsaw
412-416, 419-422
13. Taking Action on Climate – Summary and Discussion, Review Package
video - The Paris Agreement (3:30)
video - Global News - How Carbon Pricing works (4:45)
video - How these youth climate activists are changing the future (Now This News, 4:58)
video - Climate Justice Now (Ben and Jerry's, 2:02)
video - Youth and Climate: Tonyisha, Climate Justice and Air Pollution in Illinois (Alliance for Climate Education, 2:48)
Video - Climate change: The worst foods for the planet (Vox, 4:37)
Video - What is a carbon footprint? (2 minutes)
Ecological Footprint Calculator worksheet (for use with Islandwood Ecological Footprint Calculator)
Carbon Footprint Calculator - Global Footprint Network (does not work on mobile devices)
Canadian Geographic - How big are your carbon feet?
Bill Nye and the Stages of Climate Grief
Taking Action on Climate student and teacher
Taking Action on Climate: Government and individuals - student and teacher
423-428, 429-432
14. Review
Extra Videos to watch
Video - DNews - What is the Paris Accord?
Video - USA EPA - Climate Change Basics
Review Quizzes!
Earth's Energy Balance - Review Quiz
The Atmosphere and Hydrosphere - Review Quiz
The Greenhouse Effect - Review Quiz
Long-term and Short-term Changes in Climate - Review Quiz
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15. Unit Test
Formative Assessment:
worksheets, notes, readings, review packages, tree ring activity
Summative Assessment: