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Level Three (9-10
year olds)
Communicating
Climate Processes - Prime symbols:
Breath Our greatest teacher; enhanced
meditations on the breath, especially the out-breath; all living things
breathe
Which inspires in us the combined
senses of
Change
-the art of conserving forms or simple negentropy: effort
required to sustain a form (Example: classroom tidied up, we drink water
and eat food )
And
Stewardship simple notions of civics and
conservation practice; enjoying harmony with all
Which in turn opens us to the
potential of the following great symbols:
Thermodynamics -introducing convection
(advection and conduction); thermal imaging; land-sea breezes; everything is constantly
warming and cooling; solar thermal energy; evaporation and condensation
Trace -Tiny proportions imagining a
fraction of 0.1% ( part of one step/bean/pebble in a thousand)
Gases Oxygen, Nitrogen, Argon constitute
99.9% of Atmosphere (999/1000 beans) plus other gases (1/1000 beans)
Air celebrating its existence; feeling
and using its forces; its wonderful capacity for convection
Invisible exploring what is not seen by
its impacts; invisible air pollution
Water water cycle (clouds rain rivers
oceans); snow/ice/clouds albedo; cloud types; cloud spotting with
cameras, pencils, paints etc
Sun
introducing our solar system; the uneven heating of planet earth =
driver of weather as we know it; introducing weather forecasting.
Page last updated:
Nov 2010
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Note to Teachers Level
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