Lucy Buxton - Science talk 2008
Teaching notes
In this resource there is a series of videos that answer questions about the processes of climate change and global warming.
Students ask Lucy questions ranging from the importance of climate change now and in the future to how individuals can help reduce their personal carbon footprint.
Teachers may find it useful to combine this resource with others listed in the Resources section to extend students’ learning, based on outcomes from Stages 4 and 5 of the NSW Board of Studies Science syllabus and Stage 6 Biology syllabus. The syllabuses can be found at: www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au
This resource provides opportunities to incorporate the following elements of Quality Teaching in NSW Public Schools by encouraging students to explore:
How to use this resource
This resource gives a simple-to-understand explanation of climate change and how this will affect all of our lives.
Stage 3
Related syllabus content
Outcome 5.2: A student describes the processes that are applied to test and validate models, theories and laws
4/5.2 Students learn about the nature and practice of science
Students:
e) use examples which show that scientists isolate a set of observations, identify trends and patterns and construct hypotheses or models to explain these
5.9.4 Students learn about natural events
Outcome 5.16: A student accesses information from a wide variety of secondary sources
Quality teaching
This resource provides opportunities to address Quality teaching in NSW public schools by:
- promoting deep knowledge by focusing on a number of key concepts of global warming
- stimulating deep understanding of global warming by using easy to understand models
- encouraging higher-order thinking about the cause and effect relationships in global warming
- stimulating thought about how understanding the effects of global warming on everyday life can change the things we do (Connectedness, Deep understanding, Higher-order thinking).