ACES (Activities for the Changing Earth System)

Developed with support of the National Science Foundation, 1990-1993.  Victor J. Mayer, Rosanne W. Fortner, and David Elliott, Principal Investigators; Tony P. Murphy, curriculum editor.

1. Description

• Twenty activities are included (10 middle school, 10 high school).
• Global change activity topics include, but are not limited to: greenhouse effect and global warming, ozone depletion, shrinking freshwater resources, deforestation and effects on biodiversity, climate modeling, volcanic eruptions, and proxy data for global climate change.
• Supported by National Science Foundation

• Cover, credits and background information  402k pdf
  
• Contents [list of curriculum activities]   23k
  
• Framework for Earth Systems Education   51k
  
• Diagram: Interacting subsystems of Earth   23k
  
• Diagram: Continuum of space and time for Earth systems processes   26k
  

Middle School Activities  [individual downloads]

• Observing (Bio)diversity     171k
  
• Biodiversity Around the School   5.6Mb
  
• Trees on the Move: Maple Migration    3.5 Mb
  
• Have to Have a Habitat     3.9 Mb
  
• In Focus: Endangered and Threatened Species   2.2 Mb
  
• How High's the Water?    1.9 Mb
  
• Freshwater for a Warmer World   7.1Mb
  
• The Ozone Hole: Public Response to a Global Threat    5.2 Mb
  
• The Global Climate Game   14.3 Mb
  

High School Activities   [individual downloads]

• Ice Cores - A Key to Unlocking Earth's Climate Past     7.5 Mb
  
• Volcanic Eruptions and Global Climate Change    4.1 Mb
  
• It Just Keeps on Growing and Growing [population activity]   5.4 Mb
  
• How Have All the Species Gone?  [evolution and extinction]   21.4 Mb
  
• Tropical Deforestation: Causes, Effects, and Implications    4.8 Mb
  
• Downeaster Alexa: A Fishery Story    4.2 Mb
  
• Is Sea Level Rising? Well, It Depends    3.7 Mb
  
• How do Greenhouse Gases affect Heat Absorption?    2.2 Mb
  
• The Goldilocks Problem    4.3 Mb
  
• Global Warming: How Good is the Evidence?    3.5 Mb
• Global Energy Budget    3.0 Mb
  

• Global Change Fact Sheets
• References for Global Change