Level Four (11-12 year olds)
Communicating
Climate Processes - Prime symbols:
Breath - Our greatest teacher; celebrating
the human breath, especially the giving away (out) breath; enhanced
meditations on the breath, especially the out-breath; we are the
atmosphere; the abstract notion of the breath – the exchanges of gases
of soils, oceans,
atmosphere, biomass
Which inspires in us the combined senses of:
Change - Wise uses of resources aka energy
efficiency or simple ERoEI energy return on investment or EROI
(Examples: Using classroom so maximal fun and learning occurs with
minimum maintenance costs, wise fuelling of our bodies etc)
And
Stewardship – science is the art of living amidst uncertainty (simple risk
assessment/management); conserving vital balances; conserving our prime
symbols (warming/warming-up, energy/energy forms, climate change/human
induced thermal build-up, atmosphere /greenhouse, warmer trace
gas/greenhouse gas, energy efficiency = conservation of resources &
harmony/using less energy & deprivation
Which in turn opens us to the
potential of the following great symbols:
Thermodynamics – thermal layers and
balances of atmosphere; thermal energy only flows from warmer areas to
cooler areas; a thing only exists while there is a balance between its
warming and cooling; human beings exist because of a balance of the
thermodynamics of the atmosphere.
Trace – exploring trace quantities with
large impact (leverage – change of all kinds); celebrating the Warmer
Trace Gases (water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone
etc)
Gases –gas mass and gravity (heavier gas
molecules at bottom = troposphere = weather as we know it) i.e. gas layers exist; the trace gases
exist; the gas molecule cycles in the atmosphere (water vapour: c7-14
days, carbon dioxide: c5 years, methane c8 years )
Air –celebrating its existence; unique
substance in our solar system; the nature of air pressure - continually changing;
imagining the atmosphere (height compare planet diameter); enjoying the
insulating value of stilled air
Invisible – valuing the invisible (drawing
negative space and shadow), seeing the world through the eyes of other
creatures (bees & UV, snakes & IR), vision through microscopes;
gas, mindscape pollution; rainbows
Water – meditations on clouds; water
vapour and weather (the dominant Warmer Trace Gas); simple weather
systems; cloud types and predictions
Sun –
different waves/vibrations; direct and indirect warming (atmospheric) of
Earth’s surface;
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Nov 2010
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