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My Interdisciplinary Perspective On Climate Change [Natural Sciences], Richa Gupta, Tuli Chatterji, Tao Chen, Rebecca Schwartz
My Interdisciplinary Perspective On Climate Change [Natural Sciences], Richa Gupta, Tuli Chatterji, Tao Chen, Rebecca Schwartz
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This assignment titled “My Interdisciplinary Perspective on Climate Change” was developed in Fall 2020 as the signature assignment of the STEM Learning Community LC50 for students enrolled in the Biology program of the Natural Sciences department, at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. The assignment targets Integrative Learning and Global Learning Core Competencies, and Digital/Oral Communication Abilities.
For this STEM Cluster, “Climate Change” is the shared theme that connects learning from the different disciplines and helps build students’ overall knowledge on an imperative issue that our planet currently faces. Work on this assignment entails a narrated digital student presentation on the various …
Eas 250: Oceanography, Cuny School Of Professional Studies
Eas 250: Oceanography, Cuny School Of Professional Studies
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Oceanography is an interdisciplinary field studying the processes and interrelationships of geology, chemistry, geography, geophysics, meteorology, and biology. This course focuses on how scientific processes and scientific understanding are applied to questions such as: Which factors control life in the ocean? How do we know what we know about the ocean? What's at the bottom of the ocean? How does the water in the ocean move? How are human activities and climate change altering the ocean? Oceanographic data is used to understand the ocean and its interactions with the rest of the planet.
This course is based in part upon …
Winds Around Highs And Lows, Storm Project
Winds Around Highs And Lows, Storm Project
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National Science Education Standards: As a result of activities in grades 5-8, all students should develop an understanding of motions and forces, structure of the earth system, and understandings about science and technology.
Carbon Dioxide In The Atmosphere, Storm Project
Carbon Dioxide In The Atmosphere, Storm Project
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Objectives: Students learn the importance of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
National Science Education Standards: As a result of activities in grades 9-12, all students should develop abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry and understandings about scientific inquiry. As a result of their activities in grades 9-12, all students should develop understanding of matter, energy, and organization in living systems. As a result of their activities in grades 9-12, all students should develop an understanding of energy in the earth system and geochemical cycles.
Understanding Dispersion Models Using Computer Technology, Storm Project
Understanding Dispersion Models Using Computer Technology, Storm Project
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Objectives:
- Analyze dispersion models
- Use computer models to predict outcomes of various scenarios
9-12 NSES Standards:
- Standard A: Inquiry - Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry and Understanding about scientific inquiry
- Standard E: Science and Technology - Abilities of technological design and Understanding about science and technology
- Standard F: Science in Personal and Social Perspectives - Personal and community health, Population growth, Natural resources, Environmental quality, Natural and human-induced hazards, Science and technology in local, national, and global challenges
Indoor Air Pollution, Storm Project
Indoor Air Pollution, Storm Project
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Objectives: Students will learn about indoor air pollutants the types and legal concentrations and affects on human health. The students will also determine the pathway for the formation of radon.
National Science Education Standards: As a result of their activities in grades 9-12, all students should develop an understanding of the structure of the atoms; environmental quality; and natural and human-induced hazards.
As a result of their activity the students will have a better understanding of the atom’s parts and how the atom disintegrates and interacts with the environment. The students should have a better understanding of the …
Oxygen Give And Take, Storm Project
Oxygen Give And Take, Storm Project
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Summary: This is a series of three activities followed by a worksheet. The concepts taught include gas production (O2 and CO2), chemical reactions, catalysts, and pollution caused by combustion. Correlation to National Science Education Standards
- Content Standard 9-12 Physical Science B Chemical Reactions
- Content Standard 9-12 Earth and Space Science D Geochemical Cycles
There's A Whole Lotta Spillin' Goin' On!, Storm Project
There's A Whole Lotta Spillin' Goin' On!, Storm Project
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Unit Learning Objectives: The learner should be able to:
1. Compare and contrast hazardous chemical spills 2. Comprehend how hazardous chemicals affect the environment.
3. Explain the difficulty involved in cleaning up a hazardous spill.
4. Explain how the chemical travels once it is released.
5. Assess how hazardous chemicals affect the human body and animal life.
6. Analyze a chemical spill and its affects on its surroundings.
7. Create an emergency management system based on a real life situation
Evidence of Understanding: By the end of this unit, students should be able to demonstrate a clear understanding of hazardous …
It’S Time For A Change, Storm Project
It’S Time For A Change, Storm Project
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Learning Objective: (adapted from the Secondary National Science Content Standards)
1 .Chemical reactions may release or consume energy. Some reactions, such as burning fossil fuels, release large amounts of energy by losing heat and emitting light.
2. Light can initiate many chemical reactions such as the evolution of urban smog.
3. The total energy of the universe is constant. Energy can be transferred by collisions in chemical reactions. However, it can never be destroyed.
4. Everything becomes less orderly over time. In energy transfer the overall effect of the energy spreads out uniformly like the warming of our surroundings as …
To Burn Or Not To Burn, Storm Project
To Burn Or Not To Burn, Storm Project
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Objective : Students learn how a locally proposed power plant may impact the environment of their community.
National Science Education Standards:
As a result of activities in grades 9-12, students
should develop
- Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
- Understandings about science and technology
As a result of activities in grades 9-12, students
should develop understanding of
- Personal and community health
- Environmental quality
- Science and technology in local, national, and global challenges
Trouble Breathing?, Storm Project
Trouble Breathing?, Storm Project
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Objective:
Students will make connections from everyday situations to air quality. Students will know the 7 criteria pollutants established by the EPA and monitored by each state.
National Science Education Standard:
As a result of activities in grades 5-8, students w ill learn that natural environments may contain substances that are harmful to human beings. Maintaining environmental health involves establishing or monitoring quality standards related to use of soil, water, and air.
Finding The Planetary Boundary Layer, Storm Project
Finding The Planetary Boundary Layer, Storm Project
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Objective: Students will learn about the presence of the planetary boundary layer within the troposphere. Then using real life data, observe the changing levels of the boundary layer.
National Science Education Standards:
• Standard A: Science as Inquiry
• Standard B: Teacher will guide and facilitate a learning environment
• Standard D: Students will be provided with time, space and resources to conduct their research.
• Standard E: Science and Technology
Concentration Is Essential For This Task!: An Activity In Comparing Of Concentrations, Storm Project
Concentration Is Essential For This Task!: An Activity In Comparing Of Concentrations, Storm Project
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Objectives:
Students will be able to explain and give examples of both parts per million and parts per billion. In the next activity students will use these values in the analysis of air quality data.
National Science Education Standards:
Earth materials are solid rocks and soils, water, and the gases of the atmosphere. The varied materials have different physical and chemical properties, which make them useful in different ways, for example, as building materials, as sources of fuel, or for growing the plants we use as food. Earth materials provide many of the resources that humans use.
Scientific investigations involve …
Be Particular About Our Matter!, Storm Project
Be Particular About Our Matter!, Storm Project
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Objectives:
--Demonstrate that particulate air pollution can be invisible to the eye.
--Students will collect and observe particulate matter.
--Students will identify pollen grains and make their own pollen map for Davenport.
-- Students will collect and interpret local environmental maps.
--Students will investigate health risks involved in polluted air.
National Science Education Standards:
- Standard A: Students will conduct scientific inquiry
- Standard B: Teacher will guide and facilitate a learning environment.
- Standard D: Students will be provided with time, space and resources toconduct their research.
- Standard F: Risks and benefits; Science and technology in society
Patterns Of Temperature, Storm Project
Patterns Of Temperature, Storm Project
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Objectives:
1. Students will analyze temperature distributions on a map.
2. Students will compare and contrast temperature variations on a weather map.
National Science Standards: All students should develop an understanding of: structure of earth system, science and technology, risks and benefits, and science and technology in society.
Clouds Over Your Head, Storm Project
Clouds Over Your Head, Storm Project
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Objectives:
- Students will become familiar with the four main types of clouds: stratus, cirrus, cumulus, and cumulonimbus and their characteristics
- Students will learn the weather map symbols for cloudy, clear or no clouds, and partly cloudy.
National Science Standards: All students should develop an understanding of: properties of earth materials, and changes in earth and sky.
Weather Maps And Fronts, Storm Project
Weather Maps And Fronts, Storm Project
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Objective: Students will use symbol knowledge learned from previous lessons to read and understand warm and cold fronts on a weather map.
National Science Education Standards:
All students should develop an understanding of:
properties of earth materials and changes in earth
and sky.
Which Way Does The Wind Blow?, Storm Project
Which Way Does The Wind Blow?, Storm Project
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Objective: Students will be able to explain the direction the wind is blowing by observing a wind vane and applying this knowledge to the use of real time weather data about wind.
National Science Education Standards: All students should develop an understanding of: properties of objects and materials, position and motion of objects, properties of earth materials,and changes in earth and sky.
How Fast Does The Wind Blow?, Storm Project
How Fast Does The Wind Blow?, Storm Project
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Objectives:
• The student will construct an anemometer and calculate the wind speed.
• The student will examine a weather map to determine wind speed and wind direction using the weather station model.
National Science Standards: All students should develop an understanding of:abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry, properties of objects and materials, position and motion of objects, properties of earth materials, and changes in earth and sky.
Highs, Lows And Patterns In The Wind, Storm Project
Highs, Lows And Patterns In The Wind, Storm Project
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Objectives:
1. Students will learn that H is the symbol for high pressure and L is symbol for low pressure on weather maps.
2. Students will properly identify areas of high pressure and areas of low pressure on current U.S.A. surface maps.
3. Students will begin to develop an understanding of weather associated with high pressure and low pressure areas.
National Science Education Standards: All students should develop an understanding of: properties of objects and materials, properties of earth materials, and changes in earth and sky.
Weather Around Highs And Lows, Storm Project
Weather Around Highs And Lows, Storm Project
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Objectives:
1. Students will develop an understanding of precipitation patterns associated with high pressure and low pressure areas.
2. Students will develop an understanding of temperature patterns associated with high pressure and low pressure areas.
National Science Education Standards: All students should develop an understanding of: properties of objects and materials, properties of earth materials, and changes in earth and sky.
Drawing Isotherms, Storm Project
Drawing Isotherms, Storm Project
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Objectives:
1. Students will be able to define and draw isotherms to analyze temperature variations.
2. Students will be able to compare and contrast temperature variations on a weather map.
National Science Standards: As a result of activities in grades 5-8, all students should develop an understanding of: structure of earth system, science and technology, risks and benefits, and science and technology in society.
Structure Of The Atmosphere, Storm Project
Structure Of The Atmosphere, Storm Project
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National Science Education Standards: As a result of activities in grades 5-8, all students should develop an understanding of: abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry, properties and changes of properties in matter, understandings about science and technology, and structure of the earth system.
Precipitation Patterns, Storm Project
Precipitation Patterns, Storm Project
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Objective: Students will demonstrate the relationship between precipitation types and surface temperatures.They will use forecast maps to predict where snow or rain will fall over the next several days.
National Science Education Standards – As a result of activities in grades 5-8, all students should develop an
understanding of structure of the earth system.
Particulate Matter Matters!, Storm Project
Particulate Matter Matters!, Storm Project
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National Science Education Standards:
- CONTENT STANDARD D: Science as Inquiry
- CONTENT STANDARD E: Understandings about science and technology
- CONTENT STANDARD F: Personal and community health; Environmental quality
What's The Temperature?, Storm Project
What's The Temperature?, Storm Project
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Objective : Students will be able to read a Fahrenheit and a Celsius thermometer, and correctly indicate temperatures on a thermometer diagram.
National Science Education Standards : All students should develop an understanding of: properties of earth materials, objects in the sky, changes in earth and sky. Weather changes from day to day and over the seasons. Weather can be described by measurable quantities, such as temperature, wind direction and speed, and precipitation.
Where Did The Water Go?, Storm Project
Where Did The Water Go?, Storm Project
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Objectives:
•To predict what will happen to the water sprayed on the surface after setting for a short time.
•To predict the effect of moving air on evaporation
National Science Education Standards: As a result of activities in grades K-4, all students should develop: abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry, properties of earth materials, and changes in earth and sky.
Air Masses, Storm Project
Air Masses, Storm Project
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Objectives:
• Students will learn and become familiar with the four air masses: cold and dry; cold and humid; hot and dry; and hot and humid.
• Students will learn that air masses have specific characteristics: temperature and humidity, the leading edge of the air mass is called the front, a front is the boundary between two air masses, and movement of air masses brings certain weather conditions with it.
National Science Education Standards: All students should develop: abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry, properties of earth materials, and changes in earth and sky.
You're One In A Million: An Activity In Comparing Of Concentrations, Storm Project
You're One In A Million: An Activity In Comparing Of Concentrations, Storm Project
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Objectives:
Prior to the introduction of criteria pollutants and NAAQS values, it may be helpful to familiarize students with the scale at which criteria pollutants have been deemed harmful. Often numbers as small as these can seem almost abstract, but the following activities will help to make them accessible and concrete to the students,making the discussions of NAAQS values more meaningful.
Weather Station Plots, Storm Project
Weather Station Plots, Storm Project
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Objectives:
•Students will learn basic weather symbols used on weather station plots
•Students will learn, read and interpret the symbols
National Science Education Standards: All students should develop an understanding of: properties of earth materials and changes in earth and sky.