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Global Balance DLESE Reviewed Collection
http://www.strategies.org/docs/GlobalBalance_May02.pdf
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This series of activities and experiments demonstrates the importance of feedbacks and the balance of mass and energy in governing the response of any system to change. Energy balance and the factors that cause change (feedbacks) are the keys to understanding climate change, and therefore the keys to understanding the effects of rising levels of greenhouse gases on the environment. Although these activities are designed to teach specific skills and knowledge through scientific inquiry, their broader intent is to stimulate thought about the long-term impacts of a warmer planet. Through their participation in the six activities that follow, students will observe how systems change as variables change, observe and describe models to determine the steady state relationships of its variables, explain how changes in the model will change these relationships, use simple scientific tools to measure and record, provide data and conclusions based on the data, apply their knowledge to real life systems and predict how real life systems will be influenced by changes in variables. This module is one of twelve that were developed to examine the potential impacts of climate variability and change and is part of an overall series entitled The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change.
Intended for grade levels:
  • Middle (6-8)
  • High (9-12)
Type of resource:
  • For the classroom:
    • Module / Unit
  • Physical object
Subject:
  • Atmospheric science
  • Climatology
  • Hydrology
  • Ocean Sciences:
    • Physical oceanography
  • Other
Technical requirements:
Adobe Acrobat reader
Cost / Copyright:
No cost
These materials may be freely used. It is requested that credit be given to the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies.
DLESE Catalog ID: DLESE-000-000-007-574
Educational standards:
  • National Science Education Standards (NSES):
    • K-4:
      • Unifying concepts and processes:
        • Evidence, models, and explanation
      • A - Science as inquiry:
        • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
      • D - Earth and space science:
        • Changes in earth and sky
        • Properties of earth materials
      • F - Science in personal / social perspectives:
        • Changes in environments
    • 5-8:
      • Unifying concepts and processes:
        • Evidence, models, and explanation
      • A - Science as inquiry:
        • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
      • F - Science in personal / social perspectives:
        • Populations, resources, environments
Related resources:
This resource is part of 'Institute for Global Environmental Strategies'
http://www.strategies.org/
Resource contact / Creator / Publisher:
Publisher: Institute for Global Environmental Strategies


Author: Eric Barron
Pennsylvania State University, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences