Climate & Climate Change: Overview

This week, you will be given a variety of brief, informative multimedia resources about severe weather, climate and climate change. These resources will guide you through the material, help you discover how climate and climate change relate to the real world and help you find the pertinent information that will prepare you for exams and projects.

Climate and Climate Change

Objectives

By end of this week you will:

  1. Demonstrate scientific literacy by analyzing and interpreting physical geography data related to the climate, atmospheric carbon dioxide, ice cores, tree rings, ocean salinity and oceanic temperature.
  2. Demonstrate global literacy and awareness by analysis and interpretation of the complex global patterns and processes of earth's glacial interglacial cycles, historic climate change, and ocean circulation patterns.
  3. Formulate geographic research questions and hypotheses to evaluate solutions to complex real world physical geography problems including: Where do you stand on climate change?; Could The Day After Tomorrow really happen?

Weekly Schedule

This week, access and read through the course content. You will have one discussion: 

  • Write your INITIAL POST for  Discussion 4 by Thursday at 11:59 PM PST. Your TWO RESPONSE POSTS are due by Sunday at 11:59 PM PST.
  • In addition, the following assignments will be due this week by Sunday at 11:59 PM PST:
    • Reading and Multimedia Quizzes