As part of helping develop the UWHS Climate Science curriculum, I worked with Stephen Po-Chedley to put together a lesson plan centered on a table top demo of a terrarium to help students learn about heat transfer and the Hadley circulation. Lesson plan.

Stephen and I also created a lesson plan for high school students to teach about climate models. We adapted LuAnne Thompson’s simple energy balance model so that students can try to simulate temperature change in the past century and in the 21st century using radiative forcing kernels used in the IPCC. The goal is to teach students how and why models are developed and to have them better understand the uncertainties (human and physical) associated with climate change. An online version of the energy balance model can be found here.
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