HR: 0800h
AN: ED11A-0106    [Abstracts]
TI: The LASP Climate Change Compendium: Looking at Climate Change at the Poles for IPY
AU: * Wood, E
EM: erin.wood@lasp.colorado.edu
AF: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, United States
AU: Marks, N
EM: neil.marks@colorado.edu
AF: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, United States
AU: CoBabe-Ammann, E
EM: ecobabe@lasp.colorado.edu
AF: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, United States
AU: Harvey, L
EM: lynn.harvey@colorado.edu
AF: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, United States
AB: Understanding our climate, how it's changing, and how it is impacting the poles is an important gateway to understanding global warming. The International Polar Year (2007-2008) allows us an opportunity to focus on climate change at the poles and look at how it may impact the rest of the globe. The Climate Change Compendium compiles 40 outstanding inquiry-based lessons and activities from a number of sources for grades 3-12. Students learn about the greenhouse effect, natural and human climate records, albedos, feedback loops, and how these factors are affecting the Earth's polar regions. Teachers using the compendium are provided with background, image banks, extension exercises, and evaluation tools. The Climate Change Compendium is the third in the LASP compendium series, which includes Space Weather and Outer Planets.
UR: http://lasp.colorado.edu/education
DE: 0800 EDUCATION
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0820 Curriculum and laboratory design
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting