Climate Change Set (Book A & Book B)

Climate Change Set (Book A & Book B) by Veronica Armstrong

This two-book photocopiable resource series provides comprehensive information, activities and scientific investigations covering all major issues associated with climate change and global warming.

Global warming, and its current and predicted future impacts on the planet, represents one of the greatest challenges facing mankind.

These books cover a broad range of topics on global warming, including:

• Difference between weather and climate
• Climate zones of the world
• La Nina and El Nino weather patterns
• How seasons are caused
• How Milankovitch cycles affect climate
• Atmospheric layers surrounding Earth
• Greenhouse Effect
• Greenhouse gases and their impact on climate
• Relationship between carbon dioxide and temperature
• How ocean currents affect climate
• Melting ice and albedo effects on climate
• Carbon cycle and carbon footprints
• Ice ages, glacials and interglacials
• How climate has changed in the past and how it can be detected
• Biological effects of climate change
• Geographical and social effects of climate change
• Solutions to global warming

All activities and investigations provide the flexibility to be used at an individual student, group or whole-class level, and are supported by a complete set of model answers and assessment suggestions.

The books can be used as a stand-alone resource on climate change and global warming, or easily integrated into existing programmes of study.

Book A contains 23 activities, broken into the following four sections:

• Weather and Climate
• The Atmosphere
• In the Greenhouse
• Oceans – in hot water

Book B contains 23 activities, broken into the following five sections:

• Carbon cycle
• Climate in ages past
• Biological effects of climate change
• Geographical and social effects of climate change
• General – emission impossible

[CODE: UF-658]

[Author: Veronica Armstrong]

[Age Suitability: 10-14+]

[Extent: TWO x A4 Photocopiable Books - c.52 Pages per book]

This Series:

• Climate Change Book A
• Climate Change Book B
• Climate Change Set (Book A & Book B)