Week
14: Global Change
Weeks 13, 14, and 15 make up the fourth three-week cycle
of the course. Currently, you are in Week B: Teacher as Model
Builder.
Using
your team's problem statement, build an Earth System Science
model. Look at the sample model and work with your teammates
to build evidence for the relationships among the spheres
and with the event.
Assignment
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Team:
(by midnight
Sunday)
- Review the sample ESS analysis.
- Review
the ESS Model-Building
Rubric.
- Using
your team's original or revised problem statement,
build an ESS model. Post your best ideas in Teacher
as Model Builder space in the Classroom.
- Read your
teammates' analyses.
- Develop
a team analysis.
- As a team,
develop support for the relationships with evidence
from your reading and research.
- Submit
your team's analysis to the Portfolio in the
Classroom.
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Readings
You
will want to locate other resources locally and on the Internet
to supplement these. Post the resources you find in the Resource
Space in the Classroom.
Welcome
to NASA's Earth Science Enterprise: Educational CD-ROM. Under
the introductory section: "Radioactive
Energy Fluxes"
pp. 1-18.
"Clouds." Welcome to NASA's Earth Science Enterprise:
Educational Activity Supplement. pp. 19-22.
Web Sites
Earth
on Fire A module from the NASA Classroom of the Future's
Exploring the Environment site which investigates humankind's
impact on the global environment.
The
Government of Canada's Climate Change Web Site
Find out what
the Canadian government and the international community
are doing about global climate change. Includes Students'
Global
Warming and Climate Change This
site was prepared by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University
to address three key questions: What is climate change?
What are its impacts? What can we do to about it?
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