Climate change

Climate change is a very complex subject. Scientists from many countries around the world strive to understand how climate works and then try to prepare for the changes that may lie ahead.

This publication includes a series of activities for students with background information and teaching tips on current climate issues. It brings together several sources of data on the Earth's climate, newspaper cuttings and examines Mario Molina's work on ozone and its impact on global politics.

Climate change includes student worksheets to encourage students to form their own opinions based on the data and to generate classroom discussion and debate. It is a flexible resource for 11-19 year old students and can be used to study both ideas and evidence and the nature of science, and also when teaching key skills.

• Student sheets are available here in one pdf * ^† or alternatively below in individual word documents
  • The greenhouse effect and global warming
  • Looking at the data – temperature changes over the last century
  • Looking at the data – temperature changes over several centuries
  • Looking at the data – extension sheet
  • Information sheet – collecting climatic data from ice and sediment cores
  • Collecting climatic data that is millions of years old
  • Looking at climatic data from the past
  • Life as a scientist in Antarctica
  • Looking at the data – the Earth is getting warmer
  • Other greenhouse gases
  • Future climates – activity page
  • The timeline
  • Mario Molina (1943- ) information sheet
  • Mario Molina puts the atmosphere and ozone on the political agenda – version 1
  • Mario Molina puts the atmosphere and ozone on the political agenda – version 2

This book is part of the Ideas and Evidence selection of books from the RSC.

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Education Levels	11-14 14-16 16-19
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* This is a PDF file and requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader

^† The files on this site have had minor corrections made to them and thus may be slightly different to earlier editions of the book. In particular the graph on Mario Molina - version 2 - page 5 of 6.