CO2 and Water Quality? Project

How might increasing CO2 in the atmosphere affect our drinking water supply,and also the natural habitats of aquatic plants, animals and organisms?

To share your work with others, we will be using a round-robin format. This means that one member of the group stays at your work station to share your groups’ ideas while the other group members go to the other groups, one at a time, to listen to and critique the explanations developed by your classmates.

Remember, as you critique the work of others, you have to decide whether their conclusions are valid or acceptable based quality of their explanation and how well they are able to support their ideas.

Identify:

http://tellus.ssec.wisc.edu/outreach/teach/ideas/kotoski/Minifact_Sheets/Minifact6_Carbon_Dioxide.pdf

ü     What is CO2?

ü     Where is it found?

ü     Where does it come from?

ü     Other cool facts

Create a “foldable” or graphic organizer to neatly present your findings.

Diagram:

Draw a diagram of the role carbon dioxide plays in the global greenhouse in the workspace provided at your table.

Use the following interactive to help you out:
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-overview-interactive.html

Graph:

Find each country’s share of CO2 Emissions here:  http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/science/each-countrys-share-of-co2.html

Make and print a graph showing the data using this website:

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

Interpret:

Look at the data here:

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/#mlo_full

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/27/AR2007122701942.html

What is the present level of atmospheric CO₂ in parts per million?

What was the carbon dioxide level when you were born?

What was the carbon dioxide level when your parents where born?

What is the importance of 350 parts per million?

Create a graphic organizer (foldable) to share your results.

Analyze:

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/science/graph-showing-each-countrys.html

• Is the rate of carbon dioxide emission a related to population? Why?
• Are there any global patterns of CO2 emissions?
• How do these patterns compare to what you know about the lifestyles of countries around the world?

Create a “foldable” or graphic organizer to neatly present your findings.

Predict:

How might increasing CO2 in the atmosphere affect not only our drinking water supply, but also the natural habitats of aquatic plants, animals and organisms?

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-impacts-interactive/

Create a “foldable” or graphic organizer to neatly present your predictions.

Evaluate:

Take the freshwater quiz. 

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/freshwater-quiz-climate-change/

Choose 5 questions and make a fun “quiz” game for your classmates.