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Global Atmospheric Change

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Introduction

Foundations/Awareness Lessons

  1. What Are Science, Technology and Society
  2. How Society Affects Science and Technology
  3. Technology Over Time
  4. An Example of Technology Impacting Society: The Atlatl
  5. Designing Your Own Technology
  6. Designing Your Own Technology Revisited
  7. Examining STS Issues
  8. First World Issues Often Are Not Third World Concerns
  9. I Could Live Like That
  10. Do You Really, I Mean REALLY, Need a Thneed?
  11. Identification of an STS Issue for Study and Initiating Our Investigation

Investigations Lessons

  1. The Atmosphere
  2. EMS: Visible and Invisible Light
  3. Ozone Layer Depletion
  4. The Impact of Tropospheric Ozone Pollution on Plants
  5. Reflection and Absorption of EM Energy
  6. The Greenhouse Effect
  7. Atmospheric Composition and Temperature Regulation
  8. Human Produced Greenhouse Gases and the Enhanced Greenhouse Effect
  9. Ozone and the Green House Effect-Getting It Straight
  10. Carbon Dioxide Detection and Analysis
  11. Sinks for Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
  12. Carbon Dioxide and Global Temperature Through Time
  13. Lifestyles and Global Warming-Any Connection?
  14. Earth Out of Balance
  15. Where Do You Stand?

Actions Lessons

  1. Identifying Actions
  2. What's In the Mail
  3. Classifying Actions
  4. Actions: Pros and Cons
  5. Action Feasibility
  6. Committing to Action

Appendices

  1. Concept Maps and Concept Mapping
    James A. Rye

  2. Excerpts from...An Investigation of Middle School Students' Alternative Conceptions of Global Warming as Formative Evaluation of Teacher-Developed STS Units
    James A. Rye, Peter A. Rubba, and Randall L. Wiesenmayer

  3. Excerpts from...Taking Actions on Global Atmospheric Change
    Martha G. McLaren, Kathy A. Yorks, Dorothy A. Yukish, Tom Ditty, Peter A. Rubba and Randall L. Wiesenmayer

  4. The Story Board and Low-Tech Serendipity
    Dorothy J. Yukish

  5. Portfolio Assessment of STS Outcomes
    Kathleen Sillman

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