Greetings,
Our high school Chemistry class is starting a unit called “How Can We Slow the Flow of Energy on Earth to Protect Vulnerable Coastal Communities?” as part of the OpenSciEd high school science curriculum.
This unit explores scientific ideas about how sea levels rise due to polar ice melting, how energy moves between Earth’s systems, and how energy moves between objects at the particle level. Throughout the unit, students will use their own experiences and everyday knowledge to help them understand complex scientific concepts.
In the early lessons of the unit, students will discover two important facts:
- Many people in coastal communities around the world are currently migrating or will soon need to migrate due to rising sea levels.
- Sea levels are rising due to the melting of polar ice as a result of human-caused climate change. Students will discover these ideas using data from our world and their own investigations.
You can learn more about sea level rise and polar ice melting due to climate change at
Climate.gov, and more about general climate change at
The Conversation.
