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 } 2021-05-03. E.P.A. to Sharply Limit Powerful Greenhouse Gases. By Lisa Friedman, The New York Times. Excerpt: WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency moved on Monday to sharply reduce the use and production of powerful greenhouse gases central to refrigeration and air-conditioning, part of the Biden administration’s larger strategy […]

Staying current for Chapter 10 { Ozone Contents } 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 high-energy light. However, ozone is also […]

Staying current for Chapter 9 { Ozone Contents } 2024-01-09. The New Space Race Is Causing New Pollution Problems. [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/science/rocket-pollution-spacex-satellites.html] By Shannon Hall, The New York Times. Excerpt: In the past few years, the number of rocket launches has spiked as commercial companies — especially SpaceX…and government agencies have lofted thousands of satellites into low-Earth […]

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 […]