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Hello, I appreciate you taking the time to listen to what I have to share. I am a middle school science teacher. I also teach several other classes and have incorporated some of the resources I will share today into those class that are not strict 'science' classes.

Nanoscience & Climate Change

Published on Jan 18, 2023

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Climate Change & Nanoscience

Marianna O'Brien (mobrien@smmusd.org)
Hello, I appreciate you taking the time to listen to what I have to share. I am a middle school science teacher. I also teach several other classes and have incorporated some of the resources I will share today into those class that are not strict 'science' classes.
Photo by NASA

Goals

  • Provide teacher climate change resourses
  • Share student ready climate change resources
  • Help you find connections between climate change, nanoscience & what you teach
To teach about connections between climate change and nanoscience, you first need to understand climate change - which takes time and depending on which avenue you prefer for your instructional design process:

A. Information provided to you - documentaries (lowest barrier of entry)

B. Explore resources as a student

C. Explore teacher resources


To do this I will first provide resources for teachers to learn more about climate change.

I will show connections that I have found in my teaching and share a few student examples.

Learning About Climate Change

Photo by GRIDArendal

Sequence

  • Show picture of ocean-what is is trying to tell us? *
  • How does this picture relate to climate change?*
  • NASA global temperatures map*
  • Demo with water in balloon

Sequence - continued

  • #6 Where do most of the emissions come from? Look at MIT & Air Quality Management Data - Transportation using oil/gas
  • #7 Need for renewable energy - solar cells (blueberry), wind mills, circuitry (graphene - Making Things Smaller video)
  • #8 Flooding & increased algal growth will require thoughtful development of water storage - Water Filtration

Biomimicry Posters here

Chasing Coral mural

Use pictures to engage in conversation

Engage & Explore

  • Images
  • Dashboards
  • videos

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