Category: Ozone

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{ GSS Teacher Guide Index } { All GSS Books } {} Objectives [] Overview [] Assessment [] Planning [] ResourcesGuides for each Chapter: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11Index of TG Investigations Teaching Objectives The four goals for the unit Ozone and the […]

{ 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 […]

{ Ozone Contents } { All GSS Books } This activity was fashioned after that described at http://www.caosclub.org/freelessons/hbody3.html How can a gas at such low concentrations create problems for living things? Try an experiment that will allow you to measure how many molecules you inhale with each breath. The volume of air you breathe is called […]

Staying current for Chapter 11 { Ozone Contents } 2026-06-04. Ozone from wildfire plumes increases mortality. By Benjamin de Foy, Science. Excerpt: …increases in wildfires have caused continent-wide smoke plumes that contain harmful particulate matter, such as dust and soot, and precursors for ozone formation near Earth’s surface. Exposure to ozone can cause chronic respiratory diseases […]

Staying current for Chapter 10 { Ozone Contents } 2024-06-17. What Happens in the Troposphere Doesn’t Stay in the Troposphere. By Rebecca Owen, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: In the final decades of the 20th century, stratospheric ozone depletion—often called, not quite accurately, the ozone hole—was a widespread concern. Halocarbons, including chlorofluorocarbons used as coolants in refrigerators and aerosol […]

Staying current for Chapter 9 { Ozone Contents } 2026-06-08. Rocket Launches and Reentries Harm Earth’s Ozone Layer. By Sarah Stanley, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: Solid-state fuels—recently used to help launch astronauts to the Moon for the first time in decades—appear to be the fuel type with the most detrimental effects on the ozone. …The space industry […]

Staying current for Chapter 8 { Ozone Contents } El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diagnostic Discussion 2020-05-19. Tracking Tropospheric Ozone Since 1979. By David Shultz, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: … The planet’s protective ozone layer, which exists mainly in the stratosphere at altitudes between 15 and 35 kilometers, absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the Sun, shielding the surface from hazardous […]

Staying current for Chapter 7 { Ozone Contents } Analyzing the Antarctic Ozone Hole. Earth Exploration Toolbook activity. Use satellite images and ImageJ software to show how much ozone is in the atmosphere over the Southern Hemisphere, identify the ozone “hole” that develops over this region every spring, and with spreadsheet, graph its size from year […]

Staying current for Chapter 6 { Ozone Contents } 2019-01-22. Podcast: Uncovering the Ozone Hole. By Nanci Bompey, Eos/AGU.  2012-Dec.  The Ozone Problem is Back – And Worse Than Ever | Sharon Begley, Smithsonian Magazine.  Excerpt:  Jim Anderson of Harvard University … Since 2001, …had been studying powerful thunderstorms by packing instruments into repurposed spy planes and B-57 […]