The Science of Climate Change: A Hands-On Course

What It Is
Why It Matters
And What Can Be Done to Help

The Science of Climate Change: A Hands-On Course uses text and eighteen hands-on activities to explain and teach the science of global warming and climate change, how humans are responsible, and what can be done to slow or stop the rate of global warming and climate change. This book is a complete, comprehensive guide to an essential environmental topic.

Subjects covered in this book include: how molecules transfer energy from the sun to warm the atmosphere, greenhouse gases, the greenhouse effect, global warming, the Industrial Revolution, the combustion reaction, feedback loops, the relationship between weather and climate, climate change, carbon sinks, extinction, carbon footprint, recycling, and alternative energy.

The data for this course was obtained from credible science sources: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (N.O.A.A.) Earth Systems Laboratory (ESL) National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (N.R.E.L.).

Blair Lee has been involved in science education for over two decades, first as a community college professor and secondly as an author of science courses. For the last decade she has been writing concept-rich, hands-on science courses for homeschoolers, co-ops and small classrooms. She is an advocate of using innovative academics, where the focus is on how subjects are best learned. She has found that science is best learned when there is a thoughtful pairing of information followed directly with a hands-on application of that information, which is what she has done for the book, The Science of Climate Change: A Hands-On Course. She is an author for the critically acclaimed R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey Series and the founder of Secular, Eclectic, Academics.