Not exact matches
This
week I'm featuring
Earth Day
Activities for Kids that were linked up last
week.
From daily NASA videos to a webcast in which oceanographers talk about their careers, «
Earth Science
Week 2009» promises a diverse array of
Earth - centered
activities and information.
«Taking care of the planet is need of the hour,» writes Rashmi Kathuria (@rashkath), who shares tips to tackle climate change such as setting up a school club with
activities related to habitat protection, celebrating «
Earth Week,» promoting «
Earth Hour» (the time to turn off that undesirable power), and an «Anti-Cracker Campaign» (to create awareness for the environmental risks of burning crackers).
Within this 55 page packet, is a complete 4 - 6
week bundle of engaging lessons and fun inquiry - based science
activities to support the International Baccalaureate's PYP theme of How the World Works with the central idea of how changes to the
Earths atmosphere are affecting our weather conditions toda
I.e. solar
activity was high in most of the 20th centiry and then peaked in about 1985, together with a 20 - 30 year heat lag (since it remained high until 1996 as well), and oceans take a few decades to equilbrate, (the same as summer takes about 6
weeks to reach maximum temperature after the summer solstice, and every day it takes a few hours after noon to reach maximum temperature), so the
earth has taken a few decades to reach maximum temperature after the long high in solar
activity during the 20th century, and will now go down in temperature over the next few decades, with now both a negative PDO, and reduced solar
activity.