Climate change
The ‘Climate change’ course will be developed for Year 7 and 8 students (Curriculum levels 4-5).
Draft outline of the modules:
| 1 | Introduction and
climate basics | - What is climate change and why is it bad?
- What is climate?
- What key factors affect climate?
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| 2 | Atmosphere and
the Greenhouse effect | - The Atmosphere
- How does the greenhouse effect work?
- What are the different greenhouse gases and where do they come from?
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| 3 | Carbon footprint | - Ecological footprint – introduction
- Carbon footprint
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| 4 | Who’s responsible? | - What countries have the highest carbon footprints?
- Which human activities have the highest carbon footprints?
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| 5 | Oceans and Ice | - Sea temperature
- Reduction in land ice
- Reduction in sea ice
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| 6 | Extreme weather | - Hurricanes, storms, floods and cold waves
- Droughts and heat waves
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| 7 | Impacts of climate change | - Sea level rise
- Water shortages
- Food shortages
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| 8 | Reducing carbon emmissions | - Economic/Technological solutions e.g. solar economy, clean tech.
- Political solutions e.g. carbon tax
- Reducing carbon footprint at home
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| 9 | Increasing
carbon storage and biocapacity | - Introduction to biocapacity
- Carbon offsetting and storage – planting trees/reforestation etc
- Organic farming and better
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| 10 | Summary | - What have we learned?
- Where to from here?
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