I have been teaching HS Chemistry in MA for the past 14 years, along with courses in Biology and Environmental Science. As an advocate for Climate Change education, for both teachers and students, I am always looking for content and opportunities to add climate change information to my professional practice and academic courses. I am also registered as a Climate Interactive En-ROADS Ambassador.
In this lesson, students will research nuclear energy facts and advocate for its expansion or contraction in order to meet 21st-century energy goals and slow global warming.
Inquire: Students reflect on the data in graphs showing rising global temperatures.
Investigate: Students research the benefits and risks of using nuclear fission as an energy resource and develop arguments to support or oppose the use of nuclear energy.
Inspire: Hybrid groups discuss differing views of nuclear energy and work together to collaboratively design a future nuclear energy policy.
In this lesson, students explore the effectiveness, co-benefits, and equity of climate solutions and create a climate action scenario to limit global warming to 1.5°C using Climate Interactive’s En-ROADS simulator.
Step 1 - Inquire: Students wonder about the composition of the atmosphere and analyze the relationship between global temperature and atmospheric CO2.
Step 2 - Investigate: Students become familiar with the En-ROADS simulator and explore the real-world impact of different climate actions, including the co-benefits, equity considerations, and effect on global temperature.
Step 3 - Inspire: Students create an En-ROADS scenario of effective and equitable climate actions that limits the rise in global temperature to 1.5°C by the year 2100.
In this activity, students learn to manipulate Climate Interactive’s climate solutions simulator: an online, open-access tool regularly updated with the most current data from a range of credible sources and used by policy professionals across the globe. Students learn about sectors that impact carbon emissions and then explore data-driven climate actions and their predicted results. Students immerse in complex, real-world scenarios, and examine equity and policy considerations as they test their ideas to create a better climate future for all.
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Subject Science,Earth and Space Sciences,Engineering
In this lesson, which can extend over several class periods, students research carbon removal technologies as climate solutions. Students participate in a role-play to determine the best solution for their community.
Inquire: Students review key information about the carbon cycle and carbon sinks.
Investigate: Students research and compare different carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies in terms of methods, resource requirements, risks, and benefits.
Inspire: Students evaluate and recommend a CDR technology for a specific geographically and demographically defined community.
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