Category: Life and Climate
Stay Current 2023
The GSS email list (google group) receives “Stay Current” articles (excerpts and links to the source articles). To receive them email gssmail@berkeley.edu with subject line “Join GSS”. Please give your city, state, country, and your school (if you’re a teacher). See also “Stay Current” links in each book’s Contents table. Some news sources limit the […]
TG Life and Climate
{ GSS Teacher Guide Index } { All GSS Books } {} Objectives [] Assessment Guides for each Chapter: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 Teaching Objectives Life and Climate is about how our atmosphere and climate came to be as they […]
Teacher Guide for GSS
{ To GSS Books } TEACHER GUIDE CONTENTS Introduction 1. Map of the GSS Course 4. How Can I Customize GSS for My Students? 7. How is GSS Related to Science Education Reform? 2. What is Global Systems Science? 5. What Teaching Methods Should I Use? 8. How Was GSS Created? 3. What Will My […]
Bibliography for Life and Climate
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LC13C. Stay Current—What Does Earth’s Past Tell Us About Our Future?
Staying current for Chapter 13 { Life and Climate Contents } 2023-03-16. Tonga Eruption May Temporarily Push Earth Closer to 1.5°C of Warming. [https://eos.org/articles/tonga-eruption-may-temporarily-push-earth-closer-to-1-5c-of-warming] By J. Besl, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: The underwater eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai sent megatons of water vapor into the stratosphere, contributing to an increase in global warming over the next 5 […]
LC11C. Stay Current—Climate and Human Evolution
Staying current for Chapter 11 { Life and Climate Contents } 2025-06-18. When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere. By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times. Excerpt: Our closest living relatives — chimpanzees and bonobos — are confined to a belt of Central African forests. But humans have spread across every continent, even remote islands. Our […]
LC10C. Stay Current—The Ice Ages
Staying current for Chapter 10 { Life and Climate Contents } 2026-04-24. The effects of a constructed closure of the Bering Strait on AMOC tipping behavior. By Jelle Soons and Henk A. Dijkstra, Science. Abstract: The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a major tipping element in the present-day climate and could potentially collapse under sufficient freshwater or CO2 forcing […]
LC8C. Stay Current—Highs and Lows Over the Past 750 Million Years
Staying current for Chapter 8 See non-chronological resources (bottom of this page) { Life and Climate Contents } 2026-07-02. How an ancient continental breakup helped spawn the Antarctic Ice Sheet. By Paul Voosen, Science. Excerpt: When Antarctica split from Africa during the breakup of the Gondwana supercontinent 160 million years ago, the rift did more […]
LC7C. Stay Current—Earth’s Shifting Crust
Stay current for chapter 7 { Life and Climate Contents } 2026-07-08. In a First, Scientists Observe Creation of New Seafloor. By K. R. Callaway, The New York Times. Excerpt: Far down on the ocean floor, Earth is recycling its own skin. At certain boundaries, the huge plates of rock that make up the planet’s […]
LC6C. Stay Current—How and When Did Complex Life Begin?
Stay current for chapter 6 { Life and Climate Contents } Understanding Evolution – a one-stop source for information on evolution. 2019-11-14. Alien genes from bacteria helped plants conquer the land. By Elizabeth Pennisi, Science Magazine. 2024-11-13. Best evidence yet that “Snowball Earth” saw ice cover the entire globe. By Evrim Yazgin, COSMOS. Excerpt: More than 700 million […]