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• Carbon dioxide: friend or foe Starting with some questions raised by the PowerPoint presentation from the website www.climateprediction.net This lesson presents an experiment to see if carbon dioxide does cause global warming. It ...
  

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• UPD8: Global Warming Debate
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  Structured activity from UPD8 objectively presenting the arguments for and against the case for global warming. Links to other curriculum-based activities. Log in required to access the resources.
  
  

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• UPD8: Global Warming Debate
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  Structured activity from UPD8 objectively presenting the arguments for and against the case for global warming. Links to other curriculum-based activities. Log in required to access the resources.
  
  

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OCR Gateway (Showing 2 of 5 available)

• UPD8: Global Warming Debate
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  Structured activity from UPD8 objectively presenting the arguments for and against the case for global warming. Links to other curriculum-based activities. Log in required to access the resources.
  
  
• The Ozone Hole Tour
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  OCR Gateway C6e Website from the University of Cambridge Centre for Atmospheric Science. Technical in places, but useful data and information on this topic. Good for extending subject knowledge.
  
  

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• UCL: Limestone
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  WJEC C3.4 UCL Department of Earth Sciences information on limestone, including the production of cement and glass. Provides equations for thermal decomposition.
  
  

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• Carbon dioxide: friend or foe
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  Starting with some questions raised by the PowerPoint presentation from the website www.climateprediction.net This lesson presents an experiment to see if carbon dioxide does cause global warming. It ...
  
  
• Whose land is it anyway?
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  After watching a clip from the DVD 'Baked Alaska', students debate the social, economic and environmental issues about drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve in Alaska. The plenary s...
  
  
• Climate Change
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  As its title suggests, this book is good on climate change and is therefore relevant directly to those specifications where this is explicitly covered (such as Edexcel 360 Science Unit C1b) but it als...
  
  

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Case Study (Showing 2 of 2 available)

• Greener Industry website
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  Website compiled by the Chemical Industry Education Centre. Provides details of manufacture and uses of fifteen industrial chemicals, and eight aspects of green chemistry.
  
  
• Cape Farewell
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  Cape Farewell is a charitable organisation that takes artists, scientists and educators to Cape Farewell in Greenland to address and raise awareness about climate change. The site has free downloadabl...
  
  

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Instructional (Showing 3 of 3 available)

• Microscale Chemistry
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  The book contains experiments for Key Stages 3-5, all adapted to be done at the microscale level. A good manual for teachers to get to grips with the techniques and possibilities of microscale chemis...
  
  
• ESEU (Earth Science Education Unit) Teaching Resources
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  ESEU resources for teaching the chemistry of rocks. PDF downloads or how to teach the topic and worksheets, photos of rocks and experiments and links to outside resources. Contains ideas of how to te...
  
  
• SATIS Revisited: Biomass and Biofuels
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  Website produced by SATIS (Science and Technology in Society) with a range of resources to support 'How Science Works' related to biomass and biofuels at Key Stage 4.
  
  

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• Climate Change
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  As its title suggests, this book is good on climate change and is therefore relevant directly to those specifications where this is explicitly covered (such as Edexcel 360 Science Unit C1b) but it als...
  
  
• Seawater Composition
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  Concise webpage detailing the properties and composition of seawater. By Genny Andersen of the Biological Sciences Department of Santa Barbara City College.
  
  
• UCL: Limestone
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  WJEC C3.4 UCL Department of Earth Sciences information on limestone, including the production of cement and glass. Provides equations for thermal decomposition.
  
  
• The Ozone Hole Tour
    Web link 
  OCR Gateway C6e Website from the University of Cambridge Centre for Atmospheric Science. Technical in places, but useful data and information on this topic. Good for extending subject knowledge.
  
  
• SATIS Revisited: Biomass and Biofuels
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  Website produced by SATIS (Science and Technology in Society) with a range of resources to support 'How Science Works' related to biomass and biofuels at Key Stage 4.
  
  

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• Seawater Composition
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  Concise webpage detailing the properties and composition of seawater. By Genny Andersen of the Biological Sciences Department of Santa Barbara City College.
  
  

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