Joanne Abramson (Royal Sunset High School, SLZUSD), Lauren Bishop (Butler Academic Center, ACOE)

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How Will Climate Change Affect Health in the Bay
Area?
Joanne Abramson (Royal Sunset High School,
SLZUSD), Lauren Bishop (Butler Academic Center,
ACOE)

• Scientific Investigation in 2 Phases
• What is the atmosphere composed of?
• How is the composition of the atmosphere changing
  over time?
• What are greenhouse gases?
• What is the electromagnetic spectrum and how is
  it involved in global climate change?
• The second phase of the project involves student
  groups exploring health issues that are
  increasing with global warming
• Why is this problem related to global warming?
• Who is affected and how can they help themselves?

• Key Lessons and Activities
• Engagement
• Imagery from NASA and a video about global
  warming effects on California from KQED
• Online carbon cycle game and inquiries using
  prisms and hands on modeled atmospheres
• Brainstorms on potential health issues and the
  cause and effect processes that lead to the
  health problems in the Bay Area
• Exploration
• Greenhouse Effect in a Jar lab to explore
  conditions that lead to increases in temperature
• Graphs of a variety of atmospheric gases over
  time
• Research on the cause, epidemiology and
  treatments for disorders already exacerbated by
  global warming.
• Explanation
• Vocabulary introduced with animated or realia
  visuals, crossword and graphic organizers
• Laboratory exercises on greenhouse gases and the
  electromagnetic spectrum
• Note taking strategies applied to on line
  articles that explain the causes and effects of
  health issues.
• Elaboration
• Student groups will demonstrate their topic with
  an experiment to be shared.
• Students will brainstorm the connections between
  the health topics.

• Research-Based Instructional Strategies
• Interactive journals
• Anticipation guides for each lecture
• Note taking strategies
• Graphic organizers and sentence stems.
• Capstone Project/Investigation and Assessments
• The summative assessment of student groups will
  be a rubric based on their written, oral and
  visual products. The written product is an
  individual essay on their topic including the
  causes, potential remediation on a personal and
  global level, and interrelation to other health
  topics. The visual element is a group poster
  with pictorial, graphic and written components.
  The 21st century skills are assessed with an oral
  presentation of the poster and a demonstration
  pertaining to their topic.
• Implementation Plan and Next Steps
• We need to work out a reliable version of the
  greenhouse gas lab that does not use glassware to
  accommodate unique security requirements.
• Group demonstrations need additional development.
• Resources
• Graphs of Change (NASA)
• http//climate.nasa.gov/keyIndicators/
• Earth Observatory Global Maps
• http//earthobservatory.nasa.gov/GlobalMaps/

Essential Question/Problem
Global warming is changing our climate resulting
in a variety of alterations to atmospheric, plant
and animal cycles. What impacts to the health of
people in the Bay Area can be anticipated as a
result of these changes?
The first phase focuses on the physical and
environmental factors that lead to global warming
including
Smog in Oakland

• Learning Objectives (Science Standards)
• Grade 9-12 Life Science
• 6b. Students analyze and describe changes in an
  ecosystem resulting from changes in climate and
  human activity.
• Grade 9-12 Earth Sciences
• 4c. Students describe how the electromagnetic
  spectrum reaches the Earth and how it is
  reflected back. Additionally, students classify
  atmospheric gases with respect to their
  absorption of infrared radiation and analyze how
  this causes the greenhouse effect.
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• 8a. Students graph the composition of the
  atmosphere, including the greenhouse gasses.
• Grade 9-12 Physical Science
• 3a. Students know heat flow and work are two
  forms of energy transfer between systems.
• Grade 9-10 ELA (Reading)
• 2.4. Students synthesize content from several
  sources, paraphrase ideas and connect them to
  other sources.
• 2.5. Students extend ideas in secondary sources
  through analysis, evaluation and elaboration.
• Integrated Health Standards

Increase in intensity and scope of mosquito
vectored disease
Increase in natural disasters which may affect
air quality

• Evaluation
• Daily quick write prompts geared at assessing
  both content comprehension and academic language
  acquisition
• Summative quiz game
• Production of complex graphs
• Checklist of communication and collaboration
  skills

Possibly fatal responses to heat waves,
especially in urban areas

Increase in production of smog and ozone, changes
in pollen levels and/or fungal pathogens leading
to respiratory problems
Photo Credits www.sfgate.com www.saidaonline.co
m blog.altuse.com/2010_04_01_archive.html
www.jumpthecurve.net/.../ www.urbanheatislands
.com healthguide.howstuffworks.com
www.impactlab.com/?tagrain
Malnutrition due to rising food costs and
declining availability