Coding with Python: Modeling the Ice Albedo Feedback
Coding with Python: Modeling the Ice Albedo Feedback Overview As an Undergraduate Earth Sciences, Mathematics or Computer Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you teach how to program in Python and build a computational model of the Earth’s climate system. This lesson plan includes discussions, activities, and a detailed […]
Teach the Earth’s Climate System Through Simulations (Earth-Like)
Teach the Earth’s Climate System Through Simulations (Earth-Like) Overview As a Middle or High School Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences, or Geography teacher, you can use this lesson plan to teach the Earth’s climate system and help your students understand different aspects of Earth’s climate using simulations. This lesson plan is based on the webbased tool […]
Hip-Hop in the Classroom: Teaching Climate Change through Rap
Hip-Hop in the Classroom: Teaching Climate Change through Rap Overview As a High School or Undergraduate teacher in the Humanities, the Social Sciences, Earth Sciences, or Environmental Sciences, you can use this lesson plan to teach your students about climate change and global warming through Hip-Hop. This lesson plan provides an introduction to Hip-Hop education […]
Hydrocarbons and climate change
Hydrocarbons and Climate Change Overview As a high school Chemistry teacher, this set of computer-based tools will help you to introduce the topics of hydrocarbons in fossil fuels, carbon dioxide release by fossil fuel combustion and the effect of high atmospheric carbon dioxide on climate change. This lesson plan helps students to learn about hydrocarbons, […]
Teaching the Carbon Cycle through Climate-related Examples
Teaching the Carbon Cycle through Climate-related Examples Overview Overview As a high school or undergraduate Chemistry or Earth Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching topics in environmental chemistry such as the carbon cycle or biogeochemical cycles. This lesson plan allows students to understand the carbon cycle, […]
Fertilizers and Climate
Fertilizers and Climate Overview Overview As an undergraduate-level Chemistry teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching about fertilizers, types of fertilizers, the assessment of different types of fertilizers, the possible effect of fertilizer use on the environment due to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and best practices to mitigate […]
Infrared Spectroscopy and the Greenhouse Gas Effect
Infrared Spectroscopy and the Greenhouse Gas Effect Overview As an undergraduate-level Organic Chemistry teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you teach infrared (IR) spectroscopy and the use of IR spectra to detect functional groups in organic molecules. The lesson plan will help students differentiate between IR active molecules and IR […]
Atomic Number, Mass Number, Isotopes and Isotopic Ratios, and Isotopic Compositions as Climate Proxies
Atomic Number, Mass Number, Isotopes and Isotopic Ratios, and Isotopic Compositions as Climate Proxies Overview As a high school or undergraduate teacher of Chemistry or Earth Sciences, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching atomic number, mass number, isotopes and isotopic ratios, the use of isotopic ratios to calculate […]
Phase Diagrams and Phase Equilibria
Phase Diagrams and Phase Equilibria Overview As an undergraduate Chemistry, Physics, or Earth Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach phase diagrams and phase equilibria. Phase diagrams can be used to understand the stability of different phases of matter (solid, liquid, and gas) under changing temperature and pressure. This lesson […]
Buffers, Buffer Action, and Ocean Acidification
Buffers, Buffer Action, and Ocean Acidification Overview Overview As a high school or undergraduate Chemistry, Environmental Sciences, or Earth Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach about buffers, how buffers work (buffer action), ocean carbonate buffering, and ocean acidification due to higher levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). This lesson […]