How does the sun drive Earth’s climate system?
How do the ocean, ice, clouds and atmospheric gases affect the impact of the Sun’s energy on the Earth?
How have plants, animals, and humans affected Earth’s climate?
How may Earth’s changing climate effecting plants, animals and humans?
What tools do scientists use to monitor weather, and how is data from these tools used to forecast weather and climate?
What is a climate-literate person?
He or she understands the principles of the Earth’s climate system.
He or she knows how to find and use scientifically accurate information about climate.
He or she is able to make informed and responsible decisions about actions that may affect climate.
These activities will introduce you to Earth’s climate system, the factors that drive and change it, the impacts of those changes, and what you can do to continue to explore, understand, and protect our Earth.
Contents
Activity 1: The Great Glowing Orb
(Make a Solar Heat Engine) ……………………………………………………… 2
Activity 2: The Climate Team
(Make a Solar Cooker) ……………………………………………………………. 6
Activity 3: Climate Is Our Friend…Isn’t It?
(Make an Extinction Polyhedron) …………………………………………….. 10
Activity 4: Climate, Weather…What’s the Di erence?
(Make an Electronic Temperature Sensor)………………………………………. 14
Activity 5: How Do We Know?
(Make additional weather sensors and set up a home weather station) 17
Activity 6: I Didn’t Do It…Did I?
(Make Your Own Greenhouse E ect)…………………………………………. 22
Activity 7: Why Should I Care?
(Show how increased carbon dioxide makes the ocean more acidic) ….. 26
Activity 8: Are You Climate Literate?
(Play the Essential Principles Challenge) ……………………………………. 28
Activity 9: Communicate!
(Create a unique message about climate change) ………………………… 35
Activity 10: The Incredible Carbon Journey
(Play the Carbon Journey Game)……………………………………………… 38
Standards and Principles
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