Climate+Change

Emily Wolin, December 2011

@http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/ClimateChange

2 day activity.

[|Modeling Climate Change Lab.docx] [|legend.pdf] (explained the legend to the students before using the model)

Additional notes: The students really enjoyed experimenting with the model, and I think it really helped to reinforce how the different variables in the model (sun brightness, albedo, clouds, carbon dioxide) can change the temperature of Earth's atmosphere. I even got to bring in a little bit of astronomy when kids put a ton of CO2 in the atmosphere, explaining how Venus' "runaway greenhouse" happened.