NASA's Earth Minute: Gas Problem
Provided by: NASA|Published on: April 27, 2021
Grades: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Type: Videos
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: NASA
Region: Global
Languages: English
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Synopsis
- 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.
Teaching Materials
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.
Prerequisites
- There may be an ad before the video.
- Students should be familiar with the greenhouse effect.
- Students should know what an eon is.
Differentiation & Implementation
- 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, Heating It Up: The Chemistry of the Greenhouse Effect, and Total Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
This resource is an excellent primer on greenhouse gases, the greenhouse effect, and the carbon cycle. This resource is recommended for teaching.
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