There are a range of multimedia assets within the reference section that could be of use to the teacher outside of The Australian Greenhouse Calculator (AGC) program. This material includes 3 animated movies and their scripts, an interactive animation and a range of designed Excel spreadsheets for specific student activities. These assets are available to you in two ways without having to launch the AGC program.

You can either look at the items below and then save them, or go straight to the Media folder in the Teachers section.

To view these items you will need:

• QuickTime 4 [click here to install]
• Shockwave plug-in [click here to install]
• Excel or compatible spreadsheet program

The QuickTime movies are available in two file sizes corresponding to image size and quality and should allow for high quality play back across a range of computers.

The Flash movie, though viewed here in a fixed window size, can be viewed full screen if opened in its own window. You will need the free Shockwave plug-ins to view these animations. You can save the Flash movie and then open it in it's own window and maximise it for full screen playback. As the text is not editable, the separate script document is provided which contains all the text found in the animation.

Hopefully these assets prove to be useful and valuable teaching tools for you and enjoyable and informative for your students. [Note: You can then choose to save it to your hard disc to be used full screen [hardware allowing] on your computer or on a TV monitor using an Averkey or similar PC to TV converter.

QuickTime movies & Storyboards

Greenhouse Effect movie 1.24 minutes 2 MB storyboard

This high quality narrated animation interprets both the Greenhouse effect and the Enhanced greenhouse effect taking the viewer from a pre industrial rural landscape to a modern city environment.

Summer Pollution movie 1.02 minutes 1.5 MB storyboard

This short narrated animation shows the formation of summer pollution in a coastal city.

Winter Pollution movie 0.35 minutes 0.87 MB storyboard

This short narrated animation shows the formation of winter pollution in a modern city.

Carbon Cycle Interactive Shockwave Flash Movie (299Kb)

This detailed interactive animation shows the changes that have occurred to the carbon cycle from pre-industrial civilisation to present day through to 3 different future scenarios:

• continuing increasing rate of use of carbon based (CB) fuels,
• some action is taken to decrease the rate of use of CB fuels,
• a strong regulatory response that leads to an eventual decrease in the rate of use of CB fuels.

The user can zoom in on many components in the animation to find out about the effect or contribution of that element.

Excel documents
These dynamic excel documents have been created to enhance specific student activities. They allow students to enter data and either play (experiment) with different data or generate an attractive and informative graphical display of their results.

How to use these Excel documents