Teaching Weather and Climate
2007 Summer Teacher's Course

The first Summer Teacher's Course took place at Colorado State University
July 16-19 with a day at NCAR in Boulder July 20. The class was taught
by Brian Jones and Scott Denning and was a 2-credit course intended for
middle-school/junior high and high school science teachers.

The intent was to provide a semester's worth of college-level content on
the basic physics of the atmosphere, weather, climate, climate modeling,
and climate change as well as demonstrate dozens of inquiry-based
activities suitable for use in classrooms.

Teachers were provided with all relevant materials and documentation for
using these activities, and wrote a brief report on their
experience with these exercises in their classes.

Below are resources for participants.

Participants
Contact info & pictures

Lecture Notes
Download as PDF or PPT - PPT are larger

Course Activities
For all the course activities, and more, take a look here!

Short QuickTime movies
Courtesy of Dave Swartz - large files

• Adiabatic warming and cooling

• Coriolis effect part 1

• Coriolis effect part 2

• Earth's energy balance

• Latent heat and phase changes

Readings

• IPCC Working Group 1 (2007) : Technical Summary

• IPCC WG1 (2007) : Summary for PolicyMakers

• Broecker and Denton (1990) : Thermohaline Circulation and Ice Ages

• Pacala and Socolow (2004) : CO2 Stabilization: A Menu of Feasible Choices

Web Sites

• Ten Things You Should Know About the Atmosphere, (LSOP)

• Windows to the Universe, (UCAR: 7000 pages, 3 levels, bilingual)

• Exploring Energy, (Flying Turtle!)

• AT606, (Scott's M.S.-Level Climate Course)

Course Photos

• CMMAP camera.

• Little Shop of Physics camera