Format
1.) Introduction to topic and key vocabulary.
2.) Physical experiments shown to illustrate key concepts.
3.) Powerpoint images used to show graphs of documented climate change.
4.) Time is allowed for questions and answers.
Objectives
Students will:
•Explore the basic principles of refraction, reflection, thermal convection, and the “greenhouse effect” through hands-on activities.
•Describe ways that scientists collect climate data from the past.
•Discover some of the ways that global climate change may affect life on this planet.
•Identify ways that they can help mitigate the effects of global climate change and reduce their family’s carbon footprint.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
Please see Ohio Content Standards below.
State Standards
Ohio
Science
Grade 7 Science: Earth and Space Science-Cycles and Patterns of Earth and the Moon
•Thermal energy transfers in the ocean and the atmosphere contribute to the formation of currents, which influence global climate patterns.
•The atmosphere has different properties at different elevations and contains a mixture of gases that cycle through the lithosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere.
HS Science: Environmental Science-Earth Systems: Interconnected Spheres of Earth
•Atmosphere (Atmospheric properties and currents)
•Hydrosphere (Oceanic currents and patterns [as they relate to climate])
•Movement of matter and energy through the hydrosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere and biosphere
(Climate and Weather)