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Applying the 5 E Pedagogy to the Climate Change Lab

Applying the 5 E Pedagogy to the Climate Change Lab. We have been doing this for how long?. Essentially three labs Temperature and making thermocouples Climate change and preliminary field measurements Daily variations in temperature at the most extreme altered sites and one “natural” site.

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Applying the 5 E Pedagogy to the Climate Change Lab

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  1. Applying the 5 E Pedagogy to the Climate Change Lab

  2. We have been doing this for how long? • Essentially three labs • Temperature and making thermocouples • Climate change and preliminary field measurements • Daily variations in temperature at the most extreme altered sites and one “natural” site

  3. Temperature and Thermocouples • Engagement-Introduced temperature as a concept • Interesting facts: • Frigorific • Fahrenheit and his wife • Exploration • Made thermocouples with own hands • Explanation • Not as important here: you needed to know you were going to use them • Evaluation • You knew they worked and seemed to understand how they worked • Extending • We used the thermocouples in the field

  4. Climate Change Lab • Engagement • Introduced climate change as a concept • Is it happening now? • Has it always happened • Agents of climate change • Greenhouse gases • ET impacts • Modification of land by humans • We were going to go outside and take the most frequently recorded measurements in reference to climate change • Temperature • CO2 concentration

  5. Climate Change Lab • Exploration • Everyone measured soil surface temperature at five different locations • CO2 was measured by moi and the Centennial teachers • Explanation • Organizing Excel file and analyzing data • This portion was easy and hard • Determining reasons for the results • Effects of evaporation from grasses, removing all vegetation, etc.

  6. More Climate Change Lab • Evaluation • Recording measurements successful • Data analysis needed more work • Extending • Modifying exercise and taking measurements in the second week

  7. Taking More Measurements • Engagement • If you were not engaged at the beginning of this week, I was in big trouble • Used data from the first week to pick three sites: lawn (modified, watered, coolest), denuded area by parking lot (modified, completely open), and canopy of coastal sagebrush (Artemisia californica; native shrub, no modification on purpose, an actual canopy

  8. Measurements, anyone? • Exploration • Over three days you visited the different sites • You measured soil surface temperatures AND air temperature • We also measured CO2 concentrations at the soil surface and in the air • Analyzing data, old school

  9. WILL THIS EXERCISE EVER END? • Explanation • How did the sites differ from each other? • How were they similar? • Cover the possible explanations for the results • Extending • You can do this exercise or something similar in your class • Most schools at least have a parking lot and athletic fields • Great exercise for data analysis • 21st Century Skills

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