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.
Read More “Visualization: Show Your Stripes: Changes in Temperature”
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.
Read More “Reading: The climate in our hands – Ocean and Cryosphere”
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 reading that explains the phase diagrams of water on Earth, Mars, and Venus and discusses the water vapor feedback mechanism in the atmospheres of these planets that influences the greenhouse effect.
Read More “Reading: Water Vapour Feedback and Earth’s Climate”
A classroom activity that teaches students about the different atmospheric aerosols and gases released during volcanic eruptions and how they can affect climate.
Read More “Classroom/Laboratory Activity: Volcanoes and Climate”
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 lecture that gives an overview of how vegetation responds to climate change in terms of phenotypic plasticity, range shifts, phenology, and population changes.
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This teaching module allows students to explore the role of stomata in regulating leaf temperature and water loss from plants under different environmental and climatic conditions.
Read More “Teaching Module: Plant Response to Climate related Temperature and Water Stress”
A simple simulator that allows users to change a range of variables such as the color of light, brightness of light, and carbon dioxide concentration, and then note their impact on the photosynthetic efficiency of a plant.
Read More “Classroom/Laboratory Activity: Photosynthesis Under Variable Environmental Conditions”
A reading that discusses the effects of elevated CO2 levels on the photosynthetic efficiency of field-grown plants.
Read More “Reading: Photosynthesis and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide”
A video micro-lecture that describes the phase diagrams of water on Earth, Mars, and Venus. It also describes the water vapor feedback mechanism in the atmospheres of these planets that influences the greenhouse effect.
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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.