1.1 What do we currently eat?
Teacher & Student Materials > Feeding a Hungry Planet Lesson Overview Guiding question: What do we currently eat? Time Estimate: 45 minutes Purpose: This lesson aims to relate the global food system to students’ daily life, starting from reflecting on what they have eaten for breakfast to asking where all the ingredients came from. This […]
Powering A Warming Planet – Final Project
Teacher & Student Materials > Powering a Warming Planet The final carbon cycle model includes 6 arrows directly related to our everyday life: a. Industry and cars to the atmosphere (burning fossil fuels)b. Atmosphere to trees (photosynthesis)c. Trees to animals (food web)d. Animals and plants to the atmosphere (respiration)e. Household energy use (burning fossil fuels […]
2.2 The Carbon Cycle
Teacher & Student Materials > Powering a Warming Planet Lesson Overview Guiding question: How does the Carbon Cycle affect Earth? Time Estimate: 50 minutes Purpose: To tie together the previous lesson (2.1) with the learning objectives of the first learning set to give a cohesive presentation of the carbon cycle. Overview: Students will use their […]
2.1 Oxygen & Carbon Dioxide
Teacher & Student Materials > Powering a Warming Planet Lesson Overview Guiding question: What is the relationship between plants, animals, and carbon dioxide? Time Estimate: 50 minutes Purpose: Gather evidence that burning fossil fuels and cellular respiration increase the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, while photosynthesis decreases the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. […]
1.5 Who Use? Who Gain? Who Lose?
Teacher & Student Materials > Powering a Warming Planet Lesson Overview Guiding question: Who use? Who gain? Who lose? Time Estimate: 90 minutes Purpose: This lesson addresses the two major issues with energy use: on the one hand, some people and countries use too much energy and fossil fuels, which emits too much greenhouse gases […]
1.4 What are the problems with fossil fuels?
Teacher & Student Materials > Powering a Warming Planet Lesson Overview Guiding question: What are the problems with fossil fuels? Time Estimate: 135 minutes Purpose: Students will learn the problems brought by fossil fuels, including climate change, depletion of fossil fuels, health hazards, and pollution caused by transferring fuels. Overview: This lesson starts with students […]
1.3 What are our energy sources?
Teacher & Student Materials > Powering a Warming Planet Lesson Overview Guiding question: What are our energy sources Time Estimate: 135 minutes Purpose: In this lesson, students will learn about the transformation of kinetic and potential energy to electricity, the major energy sources including fossil fuels, and the importance of fossil fuels. Students will also […]
1.2 Where does anthropogenic (human-made) CO2 come from?
Teacher & Student Materials > Powering a Warming Planet Lesson Overview Guiding question: Where does anthropogenic (human-made) CO2 come from? Time Estimate: 1 hour Purpose: This lesson introduces the relationships among climate change (specifically the rise of global temperature), the greenhouse effect, CO2 emissions, and the use of energy. Students will understand that the rise […]
1.1 What causes climate change?
Teacher & Student Materials > Powering a Warming Planet Lesson Overview Guiding question: What causes climate change? Time Estimate: 45 minutes Purpose: This lesson serves to contextualize and introduce the problem of climate change on our planet, and introduce the unit’s driving question: Why does our use of energy cause climate change, and what can […]
Quenching a Thirsty Planet – Final Project
Teacher & Student Materials > Quenching a Thirsty Planet In this project, students will get the chance to apply what they learned across all four lesson sets in one single project. The main focus for this project is on the topics covered in the final lesson set, but students will have to rely on their […]