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Student ActivityThis website will be used as part of a series of lessons into the origins of greenhouse gases and strategies to decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Students access the website and read the article titled ‘Seaweed could hold the key to cutting methane emissions from cow burps’.
blog.csiro.au/seaweed-hold-key-cutting-methane-emissions-cow-burps/ Students are instructed to read the article are write down six pieces of information that they learned or found interesting. This could include that ‘livestock produce the equivalent of 5% of human-generated greenhouse gases each year’, or that ‘methane is 28 times more harmful of a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide’. Upon completion, students will be asked to share their thoughts in a class discussion and the important points will be written on the board and discussed. |
The SyllabusStage 6 Earth and Environmental Sciences HSC course
9.4 Caring for the Country OUTCOMES H5 A student identifies possible future directions of Earth and Environmental Science research CONTENT 9.4.6.3.2 Students analyse, process and present information to identify the origins of greenhouse gases and acid rain from both natural and made environments, and use available evidence to propose possible local and global strategies to achieve decreased emission of carbon dioxide, methane and sulphur dioxide |