Credit, Assignments & All That
Recap & Feedback
- Comments on writing
- Comments on process
- Follow up:
- Infrared photos
- Coldest / warmest things
Engage / Explore / Explain: Thermodyanamics
- Engage: Bending a paper clip
- Explain: Laws of thermodynamics
- Explore: Warming the tabletop: 2 different ways
Engage / Explore / Explain: Energy Transfer
- Energy transfer & thermal gradients
- Activity: What is the greenhouse effect?
- Question: Why do you get a temperature gradient?
- Energy in the atmosphere: Thermal radiation
- Activity: Why does it get colder on clear nights than on cloudy nights?
- Question: Why do you get a temperature gradient?
- Energy and the atmosphere: Convection (trading heat for height)
- Radiative energy transport in the atmosphere
- Activity: How does the earth stay warm?
- Discussion: Give a one sentence explanation of the following: How does the atmosphere keep the Earth warmer?
Extend / Evaluate: Energy Transfer at a Planetary Scale
- Discussion: Review: Why does it get colder as you go higher in the atmosphere? Give two reasons.
- Extension: The stratosphere: What’s up with this?
- Extension: How about Mars? Venus? Titan?
Extend / Evaluate: Applying Energy Concepts to the Atmosphere
- Absorption, emission, transmission: In one sentence, explain: Why does it get colder on clear nights than on cloudy nights?
- Question: Why does it get colder when it snows?
Extend / Evaluate: Radiation and Energy on Earth
- Question: Why is July hotter than May?
Evaluate: Today’s Writing Assignment
- Write and upload answers to the following questions:
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- What are the main lessons from this session’s activities and discussions?
- What questions or uncertainties about this material do you still have?
- What did this session make you wonder about—what questions did it raise?
