This is Lesson 5 of Project Resilience curriculum.
Students are introduced to the concepts of risk and vulnerability by considering the different factors that can cause a community to experience more land loss.
Students investigate a physical model to explore how satellite data impacts weather monitoring and forecasting.
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This is Part 1 of Lesson 3 of Project Resilience curriculum.
Students investigate how the combined effects of sea level rise and sinking land are projected to impact the Louisiana coast this century.
This is Part 4 of Lesson 2 of Project Resilience curriculum.
Students explore how slowing the rate of sediment deposition combined with land subsidence causes land loss in the delta region.
Students use information from Project Drawdown to learn about the sectors where climate solutions are being implemented to help slow down climate warming. Students construct a plan for using specific solutions to reduce and remove the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and make a claim describing how their plan could work to keep global temperature change below 1.5 °C .
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Students identify sunspots on images of the Sun, discovering that the number, location, and size of spots are not always the same. During the first part of the activity, students make a graph that shows how the number of sunspots has changed over the past 30 years, discovering that there is a regular pattern to the number of sunspots (the 11-year sunspot cycle). During the second part of the activity, students interpret a graph of sunspot data from the coldest part of the Little Ice Age (Maunder Minimum) to discover that the regular pattern of sunspots was disrupted in the past and this had an effect on the climate of our planet.
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Systems thinking is an important concept across the Earth sciences. In this game, students either are a part of a system or serve as scientists tasked with observing and making sense of the system moving in front of them.
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Students investigate how thermal expansion of seawater impacts sea level.
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Students review what scientists know and what they’re working to understand about the relationship between extreme weather events and climate change.
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Students read news articles about Hurricane Irene, present information with classmates, and construct a timeline to describe the hurricane’s story over time and across geographic area, exploring what happened, how people were affected, and how they reacted.
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