Essentials of Environmental Science: The Basics of Climate Science

• This video provides a fast-paced and detailed overview of the many environmental science topics related to climate change.
• Students will learn about a variety of topics including terrestrial biomes, global wind and ocean patterns, atmospheric dynamics, the greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, carbon sinks, sea level rise, ocean acidification, climate injustice, and climate adaptation and mitigation.

Positives

• This video does a good job of explaining a variety of topics, and because the video is broken into chapters, teachers can show one section at a time.
• A variety of charts and graphs make the information interesting and easy to understand.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• The narrator speaks very quickly, which may make it difficult for students to take in the information presented without pausing or slowing the playback speed to 0.75. 
• Advertisements play at the beginning and the mid-point of the video.
• This video is a part of the Hot Mess video series, Essentials of Environmental Science.

Differentiation

• Science classes could make climatograms (like the ones pictured at 0:49) showing local precipitation and temperature data for their area or perform labs and demonstrations shown in the video (solar radiation at different latitudes, temperature and condensation, etc.).
• Earth science or chemistry classes could watch this video on how scientists collect climate change data from ice cores in Antarctica, and then use this resource to read more on the topic and assess students' understanding.
• Biology classes could learn more about ocean acidification in this video and worksheet from ACE and this experiment and activity from Biointeractive.
• Other resources on this topic include this video on the history of climate science and this lesson on the basics of climate.

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