NASA's Earth Minute: Gas Problem

• This short, animated video explains what greenhouse gases are, how they function to help the Earth, and how they harm the Earth. 
• This video describes how gases like CO₂ cycle through Earth's systems. 
• This video also explains what fossil fuel are, how they combine with oxygen, and their impact on global warming. 

Positives

• This video is concise and breaks down complicated ideas and processes into an easy to understand format.
• This video does a good job of showing the negative and positive effects of greenhouse gases and how humans have impacted them.
• This video shows that the more that people learn about climate change, the more people can do to deal with its effects.

Additional Prerequisites

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• Students should be familiar with the greenhouse effect.
• Students should know what an eon is.

Differentiation

• This would be a great video to use in a chemistry class to use as an example of a chemical reaction.
• Science classes could also use this when learning about greenhouse gases and what their role is in the Earth's system.
• Some related resources are CO₂ and Climate Change | Our Climate Our Future, Chapter 4, Heating It Up: The Chemistry of the Greenhouse Effect, and Total Greenhouse Gas Emissions. 
  

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