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• The carbon cycle
• Ozone layer
• Carbon footprint

Introduction to Research centre

Teacher ideas

1. Engaging your students

   • Teacher ideas: brainstorming and concept maps
   • Teacher ideas: time capsule
   • Teacher ideas: radio news
   • Teacher ideas: climate change issues on the internet
   • Teacher ideas: rich task: black balloons
   • Teacher ideas: rich task: media watch on climate change

2. Exploring with the Australian Greenhouse Calculator

   • Teacher ideas: getting started with the AGC
   • Teacher ideas: hot topics on food: health and the environment
   • Teacher ideas: the food we eat, the food we waste
   • Teacher ideas: food's hidden carbon
   • Teacher ideas: modifying energy consumption in the home
   • Teacher ideas: testing for carbon dioxide

3. Explaining key ideas and concepts around climate change

   • Teacher ideas: explaining what I know about climate change
   • Teacher ideas: explaining the greenhouse effect

4. Elaborating on ideas

   • Teacher ideas: designing a house with low ghg emissions
   • Teacher ideas: hybrid cars, vehicles of the new millennium
   • Teacher ideas: maintaining a weather station
   • Teacher ideas: ecological and carbon footprints
   • Teacher ideas: rich task: future of energy needs of Australia
   • Teacher ideas: rich task: further investigations

5. Evaluating student learning

   • Teacher ideas: evaluating student learning
   • Teacher ideas: rich task: communication project

• About the Australian Greenhouse Calculator

• The Australian Curriculum

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