Chapter Introduction: CLIMATE CHANGE
This chapter is different than the others.
This topic is sensitive.
Parents and adults, at your own discretion, please do these activities with your children and young learners.
Topic:
The other chapters are appropriate for everyone. This chapter, however, is more mature and serious with the theme of climate change.
The other chapters celebrate the beauty of science and nature. This chapter addresses a serious challenge - climate change.
This chapter is different than the others. This topic is sensitive. Parents and adults, please do these activities with your children and young learners.
MODEL STEPS:
1. Sunlight passes in through the air
2. Sunlight heats earth
3. Heat releases infrared radiation
4. Greenhouse gases Send IR are back down
5. Returning IR heats globe and changes Climate
Suggested Links To Get Started
1. Draw the greenhouse Effect. Click here. Choose grade and level.
2. Listen to, read, and discuss climate change text. Click here. Choose grade and level.
3. Read and write stories about climate change. For 4-12 grade story, In The House Of The Birds, click here. For 9-12 grade story, Planet of The Climate Changing Apes, click here.
4. For Climate Change music video for grades 9-12, click here. 9-12 grade climate change Song: click here.
For music video on the green house effect, click HERE.
Big questions
1. What is the greenhouse effect?
2. How does the greenhouse effect heat the globe and change the climate?
3. What can I do to help with climate change?