Andrea Torrice, Bullfrog Films; Teachers' Domain
Video length: 3:03 min.Learn more about Teaching Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness»
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Middle School: 2 Disciplinary Core Ideas
High School: 4 Disciplinary Core Ideas
About Teaching Climate Literacy
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7.3 Environmental quality.
7.6 Vulnerable populations.
2.7 Effects of changes in Earth's energy system .
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- This clip would be ideal for use as a case study on coastal response to sea-level rise, environmental justice, and first-seen impacts of climate change.
About the Science
- This video offers a perspective of Climate Change from the traditional ecological and environmental knowledge of Samoan islanders.
- Comments from expert scientist: This video is best for humanizing the impacts of global warming to a specific population of Islanders in Samoa. Not primarily a scientific video.
About the Pedagogy
- A background essay giving supporting information is available with this video, which highlights negative effects of climate change, specifically global warming.
Next Generation Science Standards See how this Video supports:
Disciplinary Core Ideas: 2
MS-ESS2.D1:Weather and climate are influenced by interactions involving sunlight, the ocean, the atmosphere, ice, landforms, and living things. These interactions vary with latitude, altitude, and local and regional geography, all of which can affect oceanic and atmospheric flow patterns.
MS-ESS3.D1:Human activities, such as the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, are major factors in the current rise in Earth’s mean surface temperature (global warming). Reducing the level of climate change and reducing human vulnerability to whatever climate changes do occur depend on the understanding of climate science, engineering capabilities, and other kinds of knowledge, such as understanding of human behavior and on applying that knowledge wisely in decisions and activities.
Disciplinary Core Ideas: 4
HS-ESS2.D1:The foundation for Earth’s global climate systems is the electromagnetic radiation from the sun, as well as its reflection, absorption, storage, and redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and land systems, and this energy’s re-radiation into space.
HS-ESS2.D3:Changes in the atmosphere due to human activity have increased carbon dioxide concentrations and thus affect climate.
HS-ESS2.E1:The many dynamic and delicate feedbacks between the biosphere and other Earth systems cause a continual co-evolution of Earth’s surface and the life that exists on it.
HS-ESS3.D1:Though the magnitudes of human impacts are greater than they have ever been, so too are human abilities to model, predict, and manage current and future impacts.