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IES High school teacher's group

 

Experience a rapid hands-on chemical buffering activity that can be implemented within a lecture room or laboratory environment.

This is realted to the driving question:

......How can we use data to study climate change?

And subdriving questions:

1. How does CO2 cycle vary with daily activity in a model plant ?
2. How does temp alter the CO2 cycle in relation with respiratory cycle in a model plant?
3. How does the life cycle of a model insect vary with altered environmental
temp? ( see YouTube- Feeling the string of climate change)
4. How does the population dynamics of a model insect change with altered
environmental temp ?

PPT files:

For teaching in a class with hands on activity. PPT-class

MS word & PDF file on method

Associated files:

CO2 and climate:

Eutrophication Lab
....... Abiotic-pH, CO2, temp, light/turbidity, NO3, PO4
....... Biotic-Bacteria, daphnia, crayfish, algae, duckweed
....... MS word file algal bloom

Adult flies selective pressure...MS word.

CO2 methods for animals: flies, general

Carbon movies (Links to 4 movies) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11662978

CO2 with fruit flies:

MOVIES- larvae before CO2, after CO2 , Heart with CO2 ,

stimulate heart and add CO2; make CO2 container

JOVE article with heart rate in fruit flies and CO2 effect

Paper on CO2 and Drosophila behavior [PDF]

CO2 with crayfish:

MOVIE- Experiment for high school students. Effects CO2-pH on crayfish Heart Rate: Movie (45mB) (might download to computer 1st then view it)

JOVE article on how to record HR in crayfish

A paper detailing the steps for recording HR in crayfish go to

Paper on CO2 and crayfish behavior [PDF]

JOKES: Al Gore and CO2

Books:

1. Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, 3rd Edition (2004) Sir John T. Houghton
2. The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization (2004) Brian Fagan
3. Global Warming: Causes, Effects, and The Future (2002) Mark Maslin
4. The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and our Future (2000) Richard Alley
5. The Rough Guide To Climate Change-The Symptoms, The Science, The Solutions (2006) Robert Henson