https://koshland-science-museum.org/explore/global-warming-webquest-teachers-section
Marian Koshland Science Museum - National Academy of Sciences
This activity stretches over several weeks. Some pieces could be used as shorter stand-alone activities. Computer access is necessary.
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Climate Literacy
This Activity builds on the following concepts of Climate Literacy.
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Energy Literacy
This Activity builds on the following concepts of Energy Literacy.
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- Energy affects quality of life
- Various sources of energy are used to power human activities
- Energy decisions are influenced by several factors
- Human use of energy
Excellence in Environmental Education Guidelines
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B) Recognizing citizens' rightrs and responsiblities.
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A) Human/environment interactions.
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C) Resources.
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D) Technology.
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B) Sorting out the consequences of issues.
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C) Identifying and evaluation alternative solutions and courses of action.
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A) Forming and evaluating personal views.
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Teaching Tips
- Need to guide student groups to make sure that they maintain a critical eye on the material they are examining.
- Because the activity links to so many external sites, it will be useful for the educator to make sure the links important for their students are working.
About the Science
- The activity links to the scenarios from IPCC 2001. Educator may want to point students to a more recent version. The 2007 version is here: http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/syr/en/mains3.html.
- Activity forms a good connection to real world policies.
- Comment from expert scientist: In this activity, assumptions are, in some cases, not aligned with scientific consensus and are not supported by citation or annotation: e.g. the http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitgcc/impacts02.jsp claims sea level rise is expected to be from several inches to nearly three feet by the year 2100, whereas the IPCC Working Group 1 2007 states that sea level rise is expected to reach 0.18-0.59 metres by the mid-2090s. There are instances in the activity where the language used does not exemplify good scientific practice by failing to critically assess data: e.g. Other surface temperature data sets differ somewhat from those shown here, but in all of them the modern temperatures are generally greater than during the past several hundred years.
About the Pedagogy
- This is a reading-based activity where students are pointed to a number of online resources. The educator will need to make sure students stay on task given the breadth of material.
- The role-playing aspect of this exercise provides potential for fun and peer learning and will address different types of learners.