Description:
These six interdisciplinary lesson plans help students master the requisite background information on global climate change processes, the importance of the Arctic to global climate, the potential effects of global warming in the Arctic, and to consider what could/should be done in response.
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Learning Objectives:
Lesson One: Our Unique Atmosphere Pages
Students will be able to explain how heat-trapping gases work in the atmosphere.
Students will explain why carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases are necessary for
life as we know it.
Lesson Two: Emissions of Heat-Trapping Gases
Students will be able to explain how increased atmospheric concentrations of heat-trapping gases warm the atmosphere.
Students will be able to predict what will happen to global temperatures if atmospheric concentration
of heat-trapping gases increase.
Students will be able to identify sources of heat-trapping emissions.
Students will calculate their carbon footprint.
Students will identify ways they can reduce their carbon footprint.
Lesson Three: Communities of Living Things
Students will be able to explain how changing weather patterns, a changing balance of competitors and changes in the availability of food and shelter can increase uncertainty for communities of living things.
Students will be able to give examples of these uncertainties & disruptions from the Arctic communities.
Students will predict how continued warming may affect communities of living things with which they
are familiar.
Lesson Four: Implications of Warming the Arctic
Students will be able to explain feedback loops including surface reflectivity (albedo), ocean circulation, melting permafrost releasing heat-trapping gases and melting ice contributing to rising sea levels.
Students will be able to explain how warming in the Arctic affects the rest of the world.
Lesson Five: Regional Effects of Climate Change
Students will be able to explain how climate change will cause droughts and floods from changing precipitation patterns combined with increased evaporation, more intense hurricanes fueled by warmer oceans, insect and disease outbreaks and other possible effects.
Students will be able to predict what might happen in their region.
Lesson Six: What Now?
Students will brainstorm ideas of how to respond to climate change.
Students will think critically about the trade-offs between different possible courses of actions.
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