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{ Climate Change Contents } { All GSS Books } In this model (game), half the students act as photons and half as molecules. The model can be done either as a board game with students working in groups and moving pieces across a board, or as a whole class model where each student acts […]

Chapter 1 { Climate Change Contents } Life on Earth would be impossible without the atmosphere. It contains oxygen and other gases essential for plants and animals. The atmosphere protects us from the Sun’s harmful rays and acts like a blanket to keep our planet at a livable temperature. There is, however, some disturbing evidence […]

{ Climate Change Contents } { All GSS Books } Adler, Jerry, with Hager, Mary, “Inside the Greenhouse: Heat Waves,” Newsweek, July 11, 1988, pp. 16-24. Ball, Philip, Desiging the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.  Barnum, Alex, “Global Warnings: Warmer Climates Predicted to Turn Delta Into Inland Sea,” […]

CLIMATE CHANGE addresses the controversial question of how human activities may be changing Earth’s climate. See Overview. Contents Chapter Titles Investigations Stay Current 1. The Greenhouse Effect 1.1 Light In Air1.2. Podcasts and Videos Chapter 1 2. What’s So Special About CO2? 2.1 Two Prisms2.2 IR TV Remote2.3 Molecules Absorb IR Energy2.4 Singing Piano Chapter […]

Staying current for Chapter 9 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } The Mysteries of the Cosmos – a panel discussion with astronomers Phil Plait, Mike Brown, Debra Fischer, Andrea Ghez, and Saul Perlmutter. Topics: newly discovered solar system objects; the black hole in our galaxy; expansion of our universe. 2025-02-28. Stars made from only primordial gas […]

Staying current for Chapter 8 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2008–present NASA’s Kepler mission (to find Earth size planets in the habitable zones of stars): see also PASS Kepler page, archive of Kepler News stories, and kepler.nasa.gov (Kepler education website).  For the Exoplanet Transits investigation, data to generate a light curves for various exoplanets: 2025-01-28. […]

Staying current for Chapter 7 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } See also articles from 2008–2020. Asteroid visualization (YouTube) – an animation of the solar system showing asteroid discoveries starting in 1980. Earth Crossers are Red. Earth Approachers (Perihelion less than 1.3AU) are Yellow. All Others are Green. Articles from 2021–present 2025-03-11. Astronomers discover 128 new […]

Staying current for Chapter 6 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2006–present 2025-01-21. Early supernovae may have filled the universe with planet-forming dust. By Hannah Richter, Science. Excerpt: “Dust is the building block of the universe,” says Melissa Shahbandeh, an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). Over millions of years, specks […]

Staying current for Chapter 5 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2011–present 2011-05-25. NASA’s Kepler Yields the Next Harvest: A bounty of findings delivered at the 218th Meeting of the AAS in Boston. Kepler News. Excerpt: Soeren Meibom, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is studying the stars… in the Kepler field of view. There […]

Staying current for Chapter 4 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2009–present 2016-12-30. Astronomer Edwin Hubble announced the discovery of other galaxies beyond the Milky Way on this date in 1924. By Writer’s Almanac. Excerpt: …Before he made his discovery, everyone thought that our Milky Way galaxy was the only galaxy in the universe, and […]