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Brochures:

First CarboSchools booklet:

What we know, what we don't know & how we try to better understand global change.
Audience: Students, Teachers and Scientists
Age: 16+ ?
Languages: English, French, Dutch, German, Norwegian.
Published: September 2006
Found / Confirmed: May 2009
Feedback & Comments: none yet
Keywords: CarboSchools, booklet, reference
Download: Low resolution pdf (2.5 Mb) High resolution pdf (40 Mb)

Second CarboSchools booklet:

What we have learned, what we still don't know and what we must do to combat climate change.
Audience: Students, Teachers and Scientists
Age: 16+ ?
Languages: English.
Published: November 2008
Found / Confirmed: May 2009
Feedback & Comments: none yet
Keywords: CarboSchools, booklet, reference
Download: Low resolution pdf (2.3 Mb), High resolution pdf (41.6 Mb), Italian version pdf (3.13 Mo)

The forest, greenhouse gases and climate change – Students, teachers and scientists in interaction

A booklet providing inspiration and ideas for your teaching about the climate issue. It contains e.g. teaching material and laboratory work experiences from cooperation between a university and a secondary school. The booklet include a CD (mainly in Swedish, parts in English)
Audience: Teachers and Scientists
Languages: English. CD mainly in Swedish
Published: November 2009
Keywords: CarboSchools, Teachers Scientists cooperation, material, laboratory work, secondary schools
Download: pdf document (6.9MB) Swedish version

Idea bank – to engage students in climate research

Examples of project works which can be performed in upper secondary schools.
Audience: Teachers and Scientists
Languages: English
Published: November 2009
Keywords: CarboSchools, Teachers Scientists cooperation, material, laboratory work, secondary schools
Download: pdf document (2.7MB) English Swedish version (pdf)

IPCC Report 2007:

www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/assessments-reports.htm

Comprehensive reports on the scientific evidence of global change, reflecting existing viewpoints within the scientific community.
Age: 16+
Languages: English, and parts in French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch and Catalan
Published: 2007.
Comments: none
Found / Confirmed: May 2009
Feedback & Comments: none yet
Keywords: IPCC, reports, reference

Full scientific reports of CarboEurope and CarboOcean

Age: 16+ but difficult
Language: English
Published: from 2006 to 2008
Keywords: CarboOcean, CarboEurope, scientific reports
Integrated assessment of the European and North Atlantic carbon balance(pdf 127 Mo)
(Synthesis of results from CarboEurope and CarboOcean - 144 pages, december 2008)

Key findings from CarboEurope, CarboOcean & the Global Carbon Project (pdf 788 ko)
(chapter 1 of the second carboschools booklet: What we have learned - 12 pages, december 2008)

CarboEurope research highlight for 2007
CarboEurope research highlight for 2006

The Future Oceans – Warming Up, Rising High, Turning Sour:

www.wbgu.de/wbgu_sn2006_en.html

A special report by the German Advisory Council on Global Change on the impacts of climate change on the ocean. Quite concise, giving a good overview, but more for the teachers than for the students.
Age: 16+
Languages: German and English.
Published: 2006.
Found / Confirmed: May 2009
Feedback & Comments:

We just obtained a number of copies of this report which we are now handing out to our partner teachers as part of book cases we recently acquired. Time will tell if the report is used, and if so, if we will get feedback on student's comments. (J. Dengg, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Jul-08)

Keywords: reports, reference

Teacher-Scientist Partnership Guide:

Practical advice on how to implement a CarboSchools project.
Audience: Teachers and Scientists
Languages: English.
Published: 2005
Author: Philippe Saugier, CarboSchools
Feedback & Comments: none yet
Download: here
Keywords: brochure, TSP, project coordination

Teacher-Scientist Partnership Guide - The 2-Page Essentials:

Short, updated synthesis-version of the Teacher-Scientist Partnership Guide.
Audience: Teachers and Scientists
Languages: English.
Published: 2009
Author: Philippe Saugier, CarboSchools, and TSP (Comenius)
Feedback & Comments: none yet
Download: English Français
Keywords: brochure, TSP, project coordination

Links:

Climate Challenge - a Game:

www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/climate_challenge/

An online game where "you are president of the European Nations. You must tackle climate change and stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office". The educational goal is "to give an understanding of some of the causes of climate change, particularly those related to carbon dioxide emissions, to give players an awareness of some of the policy options available to governments, and to give a sense of the challenges facing international climate change negotiators."
Age: grades 10-13 ?
Language: English.
Material: web-browser, Flash plugin.
Found / Confirmed: May 2009
Feedback & Comments: none
Keywords: computer, game, policy

European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA) Educational Pages:

www.epoca-project.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=186&Itemid=208

An evolutive educational package on ocean acidification for secondary schools, mostly based on a major EPOCA experiment in Spitzbergen.
Audience: Students, Teachers and Scientists
Languages: English.
Published: March 2009
Found / Confirmed: May 2009
Feedback & Comments: none
Keywords: website, acidification, brochure
Download: Educational Booklet (7.8 Mb)

GreenFacts:

www.greenfacts.org

Summaries of scientific consensus reports such as IPCC. Examples for topics: climate change, CO2 capture and storage, ecosystem change.
Age: 15+
Languages: English (website and some documents also in other languages)
Last updates: 2008.
Source: GreenFacts, a Belgian non-profit organization.
Found / Confirmed: May 2009
Feedback & Comments: none
Keywords: website, brochure, CCS

Java Climate Model:

chooseclimate.org/jcm

A browser-based tool to simulate the implications of different IPCC-based emission scenarios. Quite powerful, but a little hard to get into.
Age: Might be useful for students age 14 and above, but more as an instructional tool.
Language: English.
Last update: Not quite up to date (refers to data from 2000); last update February 2009.
Found / Confirmed: May 2009
Feedback & Comments:

I have used this tool a few times for instructional purposes with students 16 years and older. It is nice to demonstrate the idea that the time scales of the effects of climate change can be quite long and to let the students play around with them. However, usually the students pretty quickly get fed up with playing around with a "black box", and I did not manage to find the underlying model equations to learn about the assumptions made in the simulation. My general impression was that the tool might be very powerful if one took the time to really get into it, and even more so if one was able to change the model equations. (J. Dengg, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Jul-08)

Keywords: computer, model, simulation

Mass Balance Model to Understand Carbon Dioxide and its Connection to Global Warming:

serc.carleton.edu/quantskills/workshopactivities/co2_global.html

A browser-based tool that calculates atmospheric concentration for a given emission growth rate. Well documented.
Age: Focused on undergraduate students, but applicable (with some simplifications) starting from age 14.
Language: English.
Last update: June 2008.
Found / Confirmed: May 2009
Feedback & Comments: none
Keywords: computer, model, simulation

Teaching Quantitative Skills in the Geosciences:

serc.carleton.edu/quantskills

Information on the issues involved in teaching quantitative skills; methods; additional resources; a community of other faculty". Basically focused on teaching undergraduate students, but interesting to take a glance.
Age: teachers
Language: English.
Last updates: 2008.
Source: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College.
Found / Confirmed: May 2009
Feedback & Comments: none
Keywords: teaching

Videos & Animations:

CarboOcean movie

http://www.carboocean.org/upload/flowplayer/carboocean/index.html

If you want to learn latest results about links between climate change, carbon cycle and ocean, look at a 55 minutes movie realised for CarboOcean, with many interviews of scientists.
A fast internet connection is recommended or you may download the video from a page on the CarboOcean website

Age: look at the movie before showing it to your pupils!
Language: English. Versions with French, German, Spanish and Chinese subtitles are expected for end 2009.
Source: CarboOcean
Feedback & Comments: none
Keywords: carbon cycle, ocean, carbon sinks, carbon sources, ocean acidification, CarboOcean

CarboSchools-Movie from Norway:

Video report on a one-day cruise on a research ship.

Age: 15+
Language: English
Produced: 2007
Feedback & Comments: none yet
Source: missing - where has it gone?
Found / Confirmed:
Feedback & Comments: none
Keywords: ocean, outdoor activities

Take AIM at Climate Change:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=08z-Hw7s54E
and
takeaimatclimatechange.com

A music video sponsored by NSF and NASA, portraying climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic and encouraging AIM (Adaptation, Innovation, Mitigation).
Age: 12+
Language: English.
Produced: 2009
Source: POLAR-PALOOZA and Passport to Knowledge.
Found / Confirmed: May 2009
Feedback & Comments: none
Keywords: video, music, climate change

The Other CO2 Problem:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=55D8TGRsl4k

Animated film about the issue of ocean acidification, produced by Ridgeway School (Plymouth, UK) and Plymouth Marine Laboratory. Funded by the European Project on OCean Acidification (EPOCA).
Age: 12+
Language: English.
Produced: 2009
Found / Confirmed: May 2009
Feedback & Comments: none
Keywords: video, animation, acidification