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Models demonstrating CO2's jiggly nature --
as a greenhouse gas


Atmospheric Sample --Colored rice, representing molecular composition of Earth's Air

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Chemistry

Focus the Nation: Focus the Class -- January 31, 2008, and beyond

Greenhouse Gasses
• Structure of Greenhouse Gasses 
 (Beloit /UC Berkeley animations)

Chemical Bonds:
What makes CO2 a greenhouse gases,
while O2 and N2 aren't?

Mole Ratios:
CO2 Levels in Vostok Ice Core Samples

How Much Carbon are you putting in the atmosphere?
Your Carbon Diet -- NOVA Video

Isotope Ratios: A detectives tool in tracing Earth's Atmospheric History
• Past Climates & Oxy Isotopes --Iceland
• Isotopes of Oxygen--UCSD
• Isotopes of Carbon -- Reference
• Abrupt Climate Change --PNAS


pH Levels:
Acidity of Earth's Oceans are changing
• Article for teachers & journalists --AGU
• Royal Society (68 pg pdf)
• Wikipedia
• San Diego Union Tribune

Fuel Cells
• What makes fuel cells go?
• Fuel Cells -- NOVA Video
• The Hydrogen Car -- NOVA Video

Careers
Which chemistry students will:
• Design even more efficient solar cells?
• Develop a new generation of fuel cells?
• Help save thousands of species?
• Help save millions of human lives?
• Win the Nobel Prize?

More Chemistry and Climate ChangeTopics

There's no hotter area in chemistry than global warming and solutions.
Research -- Education -- Discovery -- Careers -- Make a Difference


Resources for Chemistry Teachers and Students
For Focus the Nation and beyond

Special Issue of ChemMatters -- Focusing on Global Warming and CO2-- American Chemical Society's quarterly magazine for high school teachers and students.


Climate Status Investigations -- Chemistry
Carbon Dioxide and Methane (9-12) and here and here
Synthesis of Biodiesel (9-12)
Photosynthesis, Cellular Respiration, Climate Chge (5-8)
Oceanic Absorption Lab (5-8)
Methods of Geologic Sequestration Lab (5-8)


NASA -- Chemistry
Atmospheric Composition
The Carbon Cycle
Carbon Management
Detection of CO2 (Experiment)
Methane: From Obscurity to Climate Super-Stardom

Atmospheric Burning and Global Change


Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research
The Greenhouse Effect:
animation of CO2 absorbing and radiating infrared
How Greenhouse Gases Work

Where in the World is CO2? (With Experiment)
How Much CO2 is in the Atmosphere?
What does ozone have to do with Climate Change?
The Carbon Cycle Game
Global Change Instruction Program (Home)
Global BioGeoCHEMICAL Cycles


University of California, Berkeley
Beloit College, and ChemLinks Coalition
What Should We Do About Global Warming?
Includes: Structure of Greenhouse Gases
by Sharon Anthony, Thomas W. Brauch, Elizabeth J. Longley


Experiments & Demonstrations:
• Detection of CO2 -- NASA experiment
• Carbon Dioxide
• Effect of Increased Carbon Dioxide on the Thermal Properties of Air
  -- Ernest W. Blakeney, Department of Chemistry, Louisiana



Text Books

What Should We Do About Global Warming? -- W.W.Norton
Book or CD Rom
Chemistry Tutorials: Molecular Shape and the Greenhouse Effect -- Norton
Chemistry: The Science in Context -- Chapter 7 Thomas Gilbert Northeastern U.
Chemistry of the Environment. Ronald A Bailey et.al. Elsevier Publishers. 2007
Chemistry 11 Text Book Person Education Canada
 

Careers in, using chemistry
Leading Climate Scientist, inspired by chemistry teacher
includes IPCC Chemists and Chemical Engineers (2007 Nobel Prize Winners)



Leading Teachers, Programs
• Yale / New Haven Teachers Institute -- Zakia D. Parrish, Ph.D.
   Greenhouse Gases: The Chemistry Behind the Culprits
Course Description -- School District Standards -- Resources and Materials
Leading in United States K12 education with mandated Connecticut State Science Standards,
Content Standard 9.8 - D22. Greenhouse gases, climate change.

• Benjamin Banneker Academy, Brooklyn, NY
• Coolidge High School Washington, D.C.
   Atmospheric Composition



• Connecticut: Content Standard 9.8 - D22. Greenhouse gases, climate change.


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