Shared Book Approach
Read books and surf websites about climate change, carbon pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
For example:
Flannery, T. We Are the Weather Makers, Text Publishing, Melbourne , 2006
Houghton, C. & J. Water, soil and air, Macmillan Australia , 1990
MacRae-Campbell, L. Our troubled skies , Cheltenham , Victoria : Hawker Brownlow Education, 1992
McRae, R. Cry me a river , Angus & Robertson , Australia , 1991
Stille, D. Air pollution , Chicago : Children's Press, 1990. or
Trafford, C. Weather or not…: it's a climate for change , Etram Pty Ltd, 2007.
See References for additional titles.
Websites
Australian Government Climate Change Website
www.climatechange.gov.au
www.climatechange.gov.au/impacts/publications/marinelife.html
Bureau of Meteorology
www.bom.gov.au
Climate Change Kids Website
www.epa.gov/climtechange/kids.index.index
Cool the Globe
www.cooltheglobe.com/index
Global Warming Youtube Multimedia production on climate change
www.youtube.com.au/watch?v-or6GPTB4Tio
Impact of Climate Change on Marine Environment
www.defra.gov.uk/news/latest/2008/marine-1601.htm
Climate Change, Fisheries and the Marine Environment
www.csiro.au/science/Marine-Climate-Adaptation.html
Marine Climate Change Impacts
www.sahfos.ac.uk/climate%20encyclopaedia/index2.html
Coastal Environments in a Changing World
www.wentworthgroup.org/docs/coastal_environments_in_changing_world.pdf
Climate Change and Australia 's Coastal Communities
www.cmar.csiro.au/e-print/open/CoastalBroch2002.pdf
Discuss different types of carbon pollution and greenhouse gas emissions
Ask students:
- What do we mean by carbon pollution and greenhouse gas emissions?
- How many different types of carbon pollution and greenhouse gas emissions can you think of? (industry sources, point and diffuse sources, natural sources, transport sources, consumer products that might contain carbon etc)
- What sort of impacts do these emissions have on human health and the environment?
List students' answers.
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