Climate change - secondary resources
A collection of resources linked to climate change themes suitable for secondary aged students. Themes include but are not limited to, global warming, recycling and sustainability, flooding, pollution, renewable energy, the carbon cycle, the greenhouse effect and global goals for sustainable development.
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Global Warming Swindle
Through this Science upd8 activity students examine the evidence behind opposing views on the cause of climate change.
One side says this is a natural phenomenon whilst the other links rises in the Earth's temperature with human emissions of greenhouse gases.
Mini lectures: global warming
Looks at the impact of global warming and to what extent humanity has contributed to this. The animated video explains the greenhouse effect, and how greenhouse gases can absorb infrared radiation and then re-emit it. It also looks at how the oceans become more acidic when carbon dioxide is absorbed from the...
Regreen the desert
Practical Action have supplied this teacher's pack to challenge students to use their STEM skills to come up with solutions to a problem of water shortage in Sudan. The pack includes a PowerPoint presentation and Teacher Guide so that teachers can outline the problem to their students. The PowerPoint makes...
The greenhouse effect and its consequences - Investigating global warming
This set of activities from the European Space Agency includes hands-on experiments. Students are guided to interpret satellite images to better understand the overall effects of global warming.
In the first activity, students demonstrate to themselves the greenhouse effect. The experiment is complemented by...