Carbon currency – the credits and debits of carbon emissions trading
Activities
The Bush Telegraph (State Forests of New South Wales, Australia)
The carbon converters – students compare the amount of carbon stored in a hardwood tree and a softwood tree.
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (USA)
Your own greenhouse – recording temperatures inside and outside a plastic bottle.
Temperature of the Pacific Ocean – graphing past temperature changes.
Global warming – writing an essay.
Plant growth and carbon dioxide – graphing the effect of CO2 on plant growth.
Dissolved gases in water – showing that water can absorb CO2 .
Amount of greenhouse gases in the global atmosphere – graphing data from Cape Grim.
Planting trees – estimating tree plantings needed as a carbon sink.
The Franklin Institute Science Museum (USA)
The greenhouse effect in a jar – showing that trapped air will warm.
Bringing the greenhouse effect down to Earth – comparing the amount of carbon dioxide in four different sources of air.
Newton's Apple (USA)
Photosynthesis – showing that plants need light to produce starch.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Photosynthesis – using a water plant to measure the rate of photosynthesis.
New York Times (USA)
Tending to the greenhouse – examining causes, effects and solutions for global warming.
Clearing the air – students investigate a variety of emissions that contribute to global warming and make recommendations for reversing the global warming trend.
Also see the Activities at Nova: Science in the news – Enhanced greenhouse effect – a hot international topic.
Page updated July 2006.