Students ask and answer questions about how carbon cycles in the environment.
Students look at data of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over time and ask questions about this phenomenon.
Students look at four different simulations of how our planet is changing and think about what the relationship might be between these four variables.
Students look at multiple sources of evidence to construct an explanation for why carbon dioxide is increasing in the atmosphere, and how this increased carbon dioxide impacts our planet.
Students play a Carbon Cycle game.
Students apply what they have learned to make an infographic or drawing about why their photobioreactor research is important for the health of the planet.
Students evaluate each others’ infographics or drawings in order to make them stronger.
Students research real-world companies and institutions that are studying biofuel production. They develop questions they’d like to ask a biofuel research scientist or biofuel developer.
Ask questions about the phenomenon of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide.
… Read More +Use models to examine the cause and effect relationship between the variables of carbon dioxide, sea ice, sea level, and global temperatures.