Teaching Science through the Greenhouse Effect

 

Aim of Exercise: to teach physical processes underlying a well known phenomenon

Objectives:

  1. to cover a number of requirements of the Key Stage 4: Double Science curriculum - these are shown in the diagram, Figure 1.
  2. to familiarise the pupils with scientific terminology relating to the electromagnetic spectrum
  3. to raise awareness of the possible impact of human behaviour on global processes.
  4. to make pupils aware of the difficulties of proving cause and effect and of the need for global monitoring which can be achieved using a number of data collection techniques including satellite remote sensing.

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