Climate,+Oceans,+Atmosphere

[|An animation on the carbon cycle from Juan Soto]

The lesson developed by the 11/1/12 DAIT team- the activity that is used- a concept map for the standard  The website for the carbon images (go to the"life and times of carbon" information cards [|CA EEI]

Graphing the changes in atmospheric gases over earth's history- From Teresa

Movie- Snowball Earth

Tree map of the different era's of Earth's atmosphere

Use a timeline in your class from Big bang to present- start during astronomy and add events as the year goes.

Burning hand demo (please be safe!) at- http://www.rsc.org/Education/EiC/issues/2010November/ExhibitionChemistry.asp

History Channel- "The Birth of Earth"

Roberto- Use the SSSR template to break down visuals.

Movie- "Inconvienent Truth"

resources at usgs.gov [|usgs climate science]

Great curriculum units for many Earth Science Units that are written for California! [|California EEI]

Lab to compare heating and cooling of different soils - variables include- color, grain size, mineral type, moisture content

Carbon cycle games Greenhouse gas lab by Rich Magner- Get methane from your gas outlets, make CO2 with baking soda and vinegar- or ask Pete to borrow his tank-902-7768.

Solar Oven worksheet and a website for design ideas [|solar oven designs]

Passive Solar House design.

Convection Tubes can be purchased from a catalog or made with clear tubing, stoppers, and plastic water bottles.

Melt/Save the ice cube competition - build a contraption that will absorb the most heat and melt an ice cube the fastest.or that will keep the cube from melting. A worksheet for the melt your cubes competition. Learn about UV radiation using UV sensitve beads. A card sort activity about Ocean effects on climate

A trip through the carbon cycle from Rich Magner.

Studying the layers of the atmosphere through observations of clouds.

Powerpoints by Rich Magner (he has a very strange evil robot powerpoint that is too large to fit on this page-ask him for it) rmagner@psusd.us



Teresa’s evolution of the atmosphere worksheet

Kathy’s convection activity Also use hot and cold colored water in an aquarium to show convection.

Kathy- have kids predict which outside surfaces will be hottest and the have then go and take temperature readings with thermometers on different surfaces (warning this works best on hot sunny days- you can get strange results early in the morning and due to wind- you can also compare what different periods got throughout the day)

Study Coriolis effect by rolling marbles across turntables- may dip marbles in paint. Check out this

A funny thing to do is have a kid spinning around with his (or her) head n a baseball bat and then try to run (be careful about obstacles- don't want anyone hurt)- When they try to run they will curve in their path- Not really an example of the Coriolis effect, but it is memorable and might help the concept stick. Kathy- Bubble convection and density review activity

Kathy- why is the ocean salty lab? Mark- second life marine

Kathy- color coded maps

Build equations with Froot loops to represent C, H, O and build organic compounds for carbon cycle- you can also use ball and stick models if you site has a good set.