What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Demonstrate to the class how excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leads to the greenhouse effect.
Everyone's talking about climate change and global warming but how much do your students really know about the greenhouse effect? This animation and exercises makes the sequence of cause and effect clear, showing how excess carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere causes the planet to heat up.
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What is the Greenhouse Effect? - PowerPoint
This presentation of six slides developed in partnership with the Science Museum includes a colourful Flash animation showing how the greenhouse effect occurs. Separate worksheets and teacher's notes accompany this content.
Type: Animation, Teachers' presentation
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What is the Greenhouse Effect? - Worksheet
In pairs students ask and answer questions about how and why the greenhouse effect occurs before completing a gap-fill exercise and talking about the animation using speaking prompts. Extensive teacher's notes give options for group work and whole class activities.
Type: General lesson plan
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Readers' comments (3)
Anonymous | Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:13 am
hello
I can't have access to the PPP animation.
What can I do?
Thanks for your help.
Mila Haddad
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vitalife | Mon, 29 Aug 2011 3:24 am
It'd be more didactic I think to make up a story with characters and students get to act it out
It'd be much more experiential and thus easier to learn and would stay in sts' long term memory
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Anonymous | Mon, 3 Jan 2011 7:32 pm
Hello,
Unfortunately the animation in the PPP doesn't seem to work on my computer. I can only see the "loading" bar on the slide where the animation should appear. Is there any link to an external source, e.g. on youtube, that I can use?
Thanks for your help.
Best wishes
Martina Emke
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