Climate Change Education Across the Curricula, Across the Globe
Climate Change Education Across the Curricula
The “Carbon and the climate Quiz” is a simple yet thought-provoking activity suitable for school level students. The quiz has a set of questions about the role of carbon in the earth’s atmosphere, the carbon cycle, and climate change. Browse a collection of similar climate-related quizzes here.
This video gives an overview of global climate change, historical and annual carbon emissions, and biggest and smallest contributors to the emissions. This video is part of a series about climate change supported by Breakthrough Energy
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A visualization to observe and analyze the change in temperature as measured in each country over the past 100+ years. Each stripe represents the temperature in that country averaged over a year.
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The Office for Climate Education (OCE) presents a Teachers Guidebook that aims to support teachers in carrying out various activities on climate change and the ocean and cryosphere in their classrooms, and targets students of ages 9 to 15.
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CAIT Climate Data Explorer by World Resources Institute (WRI) showcases the world’s top greenhouse gas-emitting countries with the latest global data available till the year 2013. This interactive chart can be used to explore it by country and by economic sector, showing how the top emitters have changed in recent years.
| Tool Name | World’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions |
| Discipline | Environmental Sciences |
| Topic(s) in Discipline | Greenhouse gas emissions |
| Climate Topic | Climate variability record, The Greenhouse Effect |
| Type of Tool | Data Visualization |
| Grade Level | High school, Undergraduate |
| Location | Global |
| Language | English |
| Translation | |
| Developed by | Graphic by Johannes Friedrich based on work by Duncan Clark, Kiln, Mike Bostock and Jason Davies, Jamie Cotta. Data by the World Resources Institute (WRI) |
| Hosted at | CAIT Climate Data Explorer |
| Link | https://www.wri.org/blog/2017/04/interactive-chart-explains-worlds-top-10-emitters-and-how-theyve-changed |
| Access | Online |
| Computer Skills | Basic |
A quiz to understand atmospheric aerosols, their basic characteristics and impact on climate.
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A classroom activity that teaches students about the different atmospheric aerosols and gases released during volcanic eruptions and how they can affect climate.
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A classroom/laboratory activity that demonstrates the thermal properties of carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, that may contribute to global warming.
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A video that introduces permafrost and its distribution on Earth. The video also describes the changing nature of permafrost across several regions due to higher surface temperatures and the possible impact of permafrost thawing on Earth’s climate.
A set of hands-on classroom and computer-based activities for students to learn about permafrost and to explore various web-based scientific data portals to investigate permafrost distribution, characteristics of permafrost, and the effects of thawing permafrost on the atmosphere and the environment.
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A visualization that allows students to explore changes in the pH levels of oceans for different levels of atmospheric CO2. It includes visualizations of CO2 concentrations corresponding to various emission scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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A video micro-lecture that explains carbonate buffering in the ocean. It includes discussions on the changes in the chemical composition of the ocean caused by a higher concentration of dissolved CO2, ocean acidification and the resulting effect on ocean biota.
A reading that introduces hydrocarbons, fossil fuels, and the products of combustion of different hydrocarbons such as carbon dioxide- a greenhouse gas.
A teaching module to introduce the impact of climate change on water systems and the resulting effects on human society.