Category Archives: Greenhouse Effect & Climate Change

Chasing Coral

Jul 21

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Beautiful and terrfiying in equal measure, this is a good new documentary on Netflix for thinking about the relationships between human actions and ocean health, as well as some good technical stories of collecting footage and data. Great visuals and explainers for symbiosis and how the corals “work”.

Posted in Ecology & Conservation (Core and Options), Ethics, Greenhouse Effect & Climate Change, Human Impacts

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Before the Flood: The Science is Clear, the Future is Not.

Nov 1

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New from Leonardo DiCaprio and National Geographic, Before the Flood is a compelling and powerful climate change documentary. Where are we in the world right now with our understanding, challenges and potential solutions. What actions need to be taken right away?

The full movie is was available initially for free on YouTube, and their action website hosts more resources for use in class or discussions. Click here for other platforms where you can view, rent or buy the movie.

 

Posted in CAS, Conservation, Evidence, Greenhouse Effect & Climate Change, Human Impacts

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Making the Invisible Visible: Climate Change & CO2

Feb 5

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This is very neat video from NASA, showing carbon dioxide changes over time, with annotations. See a breakdown here.

Posted in Conservation, Environments, Greenhouse Effect & Climate Change, modeling

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John Oliver: Climate Change Sketch

May 29

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This funny (but sweary) John Oliver sketch skewers the non-debate on climate change.

“The debate on climate change should not be whether or not it exists, but what we should do about it.” 

With 97% agreement from scientists on the human cause of climate change, are the media skewing the debate with 1:1 representation?

This is connected to the Greenhouse Effect topic resources. Don’t play it in class without listening first – there is some strong langauage.

Posted in Ecology & Conservation (Core and Options), Evidence, Greenhouse Effect & Climate Change, i-Biology, TOK & Pseudoscience

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Crash Course Ecology: 12 Videos with Hank Green

Feb 3

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I’ve featured Hank Green’s Crash Course Biology here a number of times and many of his videos have been embedded into the topic pages for the IB Biology course around this site. Prolific as he is, his ‘Crash Course Ecology’ series has just finished, so here are 12 episodes that pull together elements of the the Core and Option topics (as well as a lot more).

The full playlist is here: Crash Course Ecology. It’ll take about as long as Avatar to get through it all, and you’ll learn more about environmental change, impacts and solutions.

Episode 1: The History of Life on Earth

The rest of the episodes are linked after the jump.

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Posted in Conservation, CrashCourse, Ecology & Conservation (Core and Options), Endangered Species, Greenhouse Effect & Climate Change, Human Impacts, IBDP Biology

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Making ATP: Core content concept maps

Mar 13

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In tomorrow’s class we’ll be reviewing our Making ATP unit (enzymes, cell respiration, photosynthesis and the greenhouse effect) with a couple of concept mapping activities. The first, cell respiration core, is made using the really useful free concept mapping tool from IHMC CMap tools. This is a freeware package for most computing platforms – very easy to use and might be a help in your revision!

In the second activity, build your own concept map making as many annotated connections between concepts as you can. Surrounding this, add and annotate the relevant graphs and diagrams.

Posted in Enzymes, Formative Assessment, Greenhouse Effect & Climate Change, Photosynthesis, Respiration

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300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds (video)

Dec 22

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A 5-minute overview of the use of fossil fuels, industrial revolution and consumerism, produced by the Post Carbon Institute. Where are we now? In a time of need for resilience and inventive solutions. Click here for excerpts from their post-carbon reader.

Do something useful – do science.

Posted in Ecology & Conservation (Core and Options), Economics, Environments, Greenhouse Effect & Climate Change

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