WEBQUESTS

Global Warming

Global Warming Webquest Student page

Introduction

You are members of a climate action team, with expert members from many different professions working on global warming issues. You have been called into action because the United Nations is concerned about global climate change and its impacts on humans and the environment. Your team has been asked by the UN to examine the current causes and impacts of global warming and then report back as soon as possible with recommendations for its member nations to adopt. You are being sent to investigate the following questions:

•  Is the climate warming?
•  What role, if any, do humans have in contributing to climate change?
•  What choices can we make in responding to global warming? 

The UN has asked that you pay special attention to sustainable energy use and limiting the production of greenhouse gases.  While much is known at this point about climate change and energy use, there are still many questions that need to be answered and decisions that will have to be made in order to address the problems associated with global warming.  

For this project you will work in groups of five.  As a team, you will use the Koshland Science Museum website along with other web-based resources to investigate climate change and global warming.  Your initial investigation will be completed as a group using the Group Worksheet . NOTE – While this scenario is fictitious, many of the questions that you will address in this activity are the same questions being considered by real life climate scientists, economists, policy analysts, energy experts, and urban planners.

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