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AIRPLANES AND THE ATMOSPHERE: INVESTIGTAING HUMAN IMPACT ON THE EARTH’S CLIMATE
A Curriculum Module for New York City Earth Science Teachers
Lesson 3
Layers of the atmosphere descriptions – The descriptions in the students’ textbook will most likely be sufficient. If the students do not have access to textbooks in class, the descriptions can be printed from the Internet. Three web pages with good descriptions of the layers of the atmosphere are:
* NASA –
* PBS –
* UCAR (descriptions are given on three different reading levels) –
Lesson 4
The Rise Of Oxygen video
Lesson 6
Articles on weather condition
* Thunderstorm –
* Snowstorm –
* Wind –
or
* Fog –
* Ice – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Florida_Flight_90
Lesson 9
NOAA Climate Webpage
* Climate At A Glance – http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/cag3.html
Lesson 12
Surface weather data
* Current surface weather data –
* Key for surface weather symbols –
Lesson 13
NAO: Driving Climate Across the North Atlantic video
Lesson 18
Greenhouse effect article
Lesson 19
Maps of population, CO2 emissions, and wealth
Lesson 20
Global warming graphs
* Temperature vs CO2 levels over 40,000 years –
* CO2 levels over the last 50 years –
* Medieval Warming vs Little Ice Age graph –
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Lesson 21
Archived in Ice video
Lesson 22
Solar radiation and cloud cover data
Evidence for global dimming articles
Background information on evidence for global dimming
Lesson 23
“September’s Science” article
Information on “Dimming the Sun” video
Lesson 24
Hurricane article and video
Lesson 25
Global warming and hurricane article
Sea surface temperature maps
* 2001 –
* 2002 –
* 2003 –
* 2004 –
* 2005 –
* 2006 –
Lesson 26
Global Ozone visualization
Sea Ice visualization
Sea Surface Temperature visualization
COMPREHENSIVE MATERIALS LIST
For a list of all the materials used in Airplanes and the Atmosphere, click here.