1. Climate Change

2. What is Climate Change ?
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Long-term shift in
weather conditions
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Leads to changes
in temperature,
rain, snow, wind
and other factors
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Result of natural
and human causes
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3. What are the Natural Causes?
Solar Output Volcanic Activity
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Earth's Orbit around the Sun

4. What are the Human Causes?
Increase
Burning of Fossil Fuels Deforestation
Carbon Dioxide
Smoke Belching
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5. Global Warming
Increase in the average temperature of the Earth's
atmosphere and oceans caused by increasing
concentrations of greenhouse gases (such as Carbon
Dioxide)
Do you see a
pattern on the graph?
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6. The Debate on Global Warming
It's not serious... We should act now!
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No scientific ●
Human activities
evidence causes the increase
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Global warming is in CO2
natural ●
Increase in the
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We need carbon world temperature
dioxide will affect water,
food and climate
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7. Activity
The class will be divided in groups of 4 and will have to fill out a big cartolina with the
following information below. They will report this after 20 mins.
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8. Video Resource
The Truth About Global Warming - Science & Distortion – by
Stephen Schneider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_eJdX6y4hM
This is a video of Stephen Henry Schneider (February 11, 1945 – July 19, 2010). He
was Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University, a
Co-Director at the Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Freeman Spogli
Institute for International Studies and a Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute
for the Environment. He was awarded a Nobel pea
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to which Schneider made
very significant contributions, shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
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9. Project: What can you do to help?
1. Ask the class what they can do to help the environment to save the
earth from global warming.
2. Come up with a project that the class can do and document like:
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Earth Hour (turn off the lights for an hour from 7PM to 8PM)
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Recycle (gather plastic bottles and papers in school and segregate
them)
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Tree Planting (find a place, reservoir, where the children can plant
seedlings)
3. Ask them to write about their experience on this.
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10. References
http://www.pbs.org/now/classroom/global-warming-lesson-plan.pdf
http://www.climatechange.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=65CD73F4-1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
http://www.ehow.com/facts_4855492_global-warming-kids.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_eJdX6y4hM
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