Paleoclimate: A History of Change
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Provided by: BioInteractive|Published on: August 13, 2021
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Synopsis
- This comprehensive resource about global warming, Earth's climate history, and the factors affecting Earth's climate includes student worksheets in English and Spanish, a "Click and Learn" presentation, animated graphs, instructional videos, and a question and answer session.
- The interactive presentation discusses oxygen isotopes, ocean sediment cores, glacial and interglacial periods, Milankovich cycles, solar activity, greenhouse gases, and the effects of climate change on water supplies and agriculture.
Subjects: Chemistry, Biology, Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: BioInteractive
Region: Global
Languages: English, Spanish
Teaching Materials
Positives
- The content is updated and the many graphs of carbon dioxide and temperature over different time scales are very illuminating.
- Student learning targets and curriculum connections are provided.
Additional Prerequisites
- Students should be familiar with reading and analyzing graphs and data.
- Students should be familiar with keywords such as climate, carbon dioxide, extinction, global warming, and ice age.
Differentiation
- Science classes could use this resource as a homework assignment before covering the material in class.
- There are many connections that can be made to biology, chemistry, and Earth science classes because it covers so many topics, such as isotopes, feedback loops, the greenhouse effect, Earth's orbit, energy balance, and global cycles.
- Students can be divided into groups and given a different topic to "jigsaw," where students research, analyze, and then teach their peers what they learned.
- Other resources on this topic include this digital text about climate change and Earth's history and this video about climate science.
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BioInteractive
BioInteractive brings the power of real science stories into tens of thousands of high school and undergraduate life science classrooms.
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