Lesson Plans

Grade
Discipline

Introduction to Climate Change

Special introductory lesson for teachers and all public with basic resources to understand the science and challenges of Climate Change.

All public  • 

Calculus and CO2 Emissions

Learn to solve calculus and tangent line problems using atmospheric CO2 data and the Greenhouse effect.

High School, Undergraduate  •  120 min

Malaria and Human Health

Learn about Protozoa, vectors, vector-borne diseases, the Spread of Malaria and human health.

High School  •  180 min

Tragedy of the Commons

Learn about the Economics of Climate Change, as well as Policy, Politics and Environmental Governance.

Undergraduate  •  120 min

Buffers, Buffer Action and Ocean Acidification

Learn about chemical buffer solutions, and how the CO2 in the atmosphere makes the oceans more acid.

High School, Undergraduate  •  40 min

Microbial Life

Learn about Microbes, Bacterial Growth and Adaptation, Gas Cycling and Greenhouse Gases.

High School, Undergraduate  •  150 min

Listening Comprehension, Talk by Climate Activist Greta Thunberg

Explore how a talk by Climate Activist, Greta Thunberg can be used for listening comprehension, inferential questions and detecting emotive undertones.

High School, Middle School  •  50-60 min

Phenology in Plants

Learn about life-cycle and phenological events in plants, as well as leaf-out in plants.

High School, Undergraduate  •  110 min

Glaciers, Glacial Retreat, Cryosphere

Glaciology, Glaciers and Glacial Retreat, and the Cryosphere-Climate Relationship.

High School, Undergraduate  •  100 min

Climate Change, Food Security and Agriculture

Relationship between Climate Change and Agriculture

High School, Undergraduate  •  90-130 min

Planck's Law and Blackbody Radiation

Learn about Planetary Climates, Planetary Energy Balance,and the Greenhouse Effect. Available in multiple languages.

High School, Undergraduate  •  120-150 min

Fertilizers and Climate

Agriculture, Effects of the Use of Fertilizers on the Environment

Undergraduate  •  30-50 min

Coriolis Force

Understand the Coriolis force, and the effect of the Coriolis force on weather and climate.

High School, Undergraduate  •  40-50 min

Plant Physiology

Learn about Photosynthetic Pathways, C3, C4, and CAM Plants, Photorespiration, Stomatal Conductance, Photosynthetic Efficiency, Homoeostasis

Undergraduate  •  80 min

Climate Refugees

Learn about Climate Change and Human Migration, Climate Justice, Social and Environmental Policy

High School, Undergraduate  •  120 min

Capitalism and Climate Change

Learn about Capitalism, Consumerism, Materials Economy and its effect on climate change

High School, Undergraduate  •  90 min

The Greenhouse effect

Greenhouse Effect, Greenhouse Gases (GHGs)and Emission,Global Warming

Middle School or High School  •  50-60 min

Carbon Pricing, Shadow and Market Prices

Learn about market prices and shadow prices,carbon pricing,costs of greenhouse gases

Undergraduate  •  90-100 min

Abiotic Stress on Plants due to Climate Change

Learn about plant physiology, abiotic stress in plants

High School, Undergraduate  •  40-150 min

Permafrost and Climate Change

permafrost and its thawing due to rising global temperatures

High School, Undergraduate  •  50-60 min

Natural Selection

Learn about natural selection, its role in evolution and climate change as a selective pressure in natural selection

High School, Undergraduate  •  40-60 min

Impact of Climate Change on Photosynthesis

Learn about photosynthesis, influencing factors, C3-C4 plants, CAM Plants, Calvin Cycle

High School, Undergraduate  •  100-120 min

Hydrocarbons and Climate Change

Learn about Hydrocarbons,Fossil fuels and impact of thier emissions

High School  •  50-60 min

Climate Change Impact on Sea Turtles

Impact of Climate Change on Sex Determination in Sea Turtles

High School  •  80-90 min

How to Read and Analyze Poetry

A Lesson Plan about how to read and analyze poetry and to use these techniques to examine climate related poems

High School  •  50-60 min

Hadley Circulation and Heat Transport

Hadley Circulation, Heat Transport, Global Precipitation Patterns, Geographical Distribution of Deserts

High School, Undergraduate  •  80-100 min

Carbon Compounds

Learn about the molecular structure of Carbon Compounds (CO2, CH4), their interaction with Electromagnetic Radiation, Molecular Vibrations, Greehouse Gases. Available in various languages.

High School  •  80-100 min

Cost Benefit Analysis

Principles of cost-benefit analysis, its appliation to global carbon abatement

Undergraduate  •  150-170 min

William Blake's "Chimney Sweeper" Poems and Industrial Age

English Literature, Analysis of Poetic Texts, William Blake, Romantic Poetry, Child Labor, Industrial Revolution

High School, Undergraduate  •  50-60 min

Aerosols and Climate

Aerosols, Role of Aerosols in Cloud Formation, Sulphate Aerosols, Aerosols and Climate

High School, Undergraduate  •  40-50 min

Beer-Lambert Law and Earth’s Atmosphere

Beer-Lambert Law, Molar Absorptivity, Absorbance and Transmittance of Incident Light, Molar Absorption Coefficient, Molar Extinction Coefficient

Undergraduate  •  50-60 min

Mountains and Climate Change

Characterisitcs of mountains, Relationship between climate factors and the mountains

High School, Undergraduate  •  50-60 min

Phase Diagrams and Phase Equilibria

Phase Equilibria, Phase Diagrams of Water, Degrees of Freedom, Feedback Mechanisms, Vapour Pressure, Runaway Greenhouse Effect

High School, Undergraduate  •  45-60 min

Insect Pollination in a Warming World

A lesson plan about insect pollination and the impact of climate change on pollinators, pollinator systems and food security

High School, Undergraduate  •  2-3 sessions, 45-60 min each

Simple Harmonic Motion and Simple Harmonic Oscillators

Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM), Simple Harmonic Oscillators, Buoyancy in Fluids, Brunt-Väisälä Frequency, Stratified Fluids, Density Gradient

High School, Undergraduate  •  50-60 min

Climate Fiction 'Hermie'- A Case of Climate Change

Climate fiction short story to teach literary analysis of fiction through narrative strategies

High School, Middle school  •  50-60 min

Carbon Cycle

Environmental Chemistry, Carbon Cycle, Biogeochemical Cycles

High School, Undergraduate  •  80-100 min

Thermodynamic Processes in the Atmosphere

Thermodynamics, Thermodynamic Systems, Thermodynamic Processes, Lapse Rates

Undergraduate  •  50-60 min

Isotopic Compositions

Atomic Number, Mass Number, Isotopes, Isotopic Ratios and Compositions, Isotopes and past climate

High School,Undergraduate  •  120 min

The Water Cycle in a Sustainable World

Learn about Water Cycle, Biogeochemical Cycles, Effect of climate change on the water cycle

High School,Undergraduate  •  60-90 min

Note Making and Summary Writing Using Climate Literature

Learn how Climate Literature can be used to teach and learn note making skills and summary writing

High School, Undergraduate  •  50-60 min

Verb Tenses through Climate Literature

A Lesson Plan that can be used to teach/learn different types of verb tenses and discuss their usage in English language

High School, Middle school  •  50-60 min

Ecological Niches and Biogeography:- Mountain Gorillas, Bamboo and Climate

Learn about the Ecological niches and the Biogeographical distribution of Mountain Gorillas and their conservation.

Undergraduate  •  70 min

Uncertainty and hurricanes

A Lesson Plan that can be used to teach/learn disasters, hurricanes and the possible impact on climate change using statistical analysis topics such as Trends, Uncertainty, and Student’s t-distribution.

High School, Undergraduate  •  90 – 120 min

Infrared Spectroscopy and the Greenhouse Gas Effect

A Lesson Plan that can be used to teach/learn the use of infrared (IR) spectroscopy to study organic molecules of gases such as CO2 and water vapor on IR interactions & explaining the greenhouse effect.

Undergraduate  •  45-60 min

Trigonometry and Sea Level Rise

A Lesson Plan that can be used to teach/learn simple trigonometric functions to understand the phenomenon of global warming & it's effect on glaciers and ice sheets causing the sea levels to rise.

High School  •  50-60 min

Hazards and Disasters

A Lesson Plan that can be used to teach/learn how the melting of polar ice due to climate change can result in an increase in sea levels globally. Also determine the reasons and visualize the climate change-related flooding & it's effects on vulnerable coastal regions.

High School, Undergraduate  •  140-200 min

Biodiversity

This lesson plan helps students to learn about the current and past habitats of an animal (specifically, squirrels), and how changing habitats can affect the distribution of a species.

Undergraduate  •  120-150 min

Acids, Bases & The pH Scale

This lesson plan allows students to understand the pH scale and acidification by analyzing the effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide on ocean chemistry.

High School  •  120-150 min

Black Carbon And Climate

This lesson plan helps students to learn about allotropy, various allotropes of carbon and their structural and physical properties, black carbon, sources of black carbon and its impact on Earth’s climate.

High School, Undergraduate  •  90-120 min