Global Warming for children
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Helping Children understand Global Warming
For young children to understand a concept like Global Warming it needs to be taught through hands-on observable experiments.
Make a terrarium with falling rain. Melt ice and watch the water level of a lake rise. Observe what happens when plants receive more or less water than normal.
Come experience the ice melt on the concept of Global Warming...
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Global Warming Table of Contents
Once they understand that concept they will be closer to understanding Global Warming.
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Global warming is...
How can we teach about Global Warming to our children?
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Thermometers in Heaven and Hell Available at Allposters
Ask the children to get into a circle and then pass around a potato. Have the children notice it's temperature. We are going to pretend that the potato is the earth.
Use a Meat Thermometer to measure the internal temperature. Use a Surface Thermometer to measure the surface temperature of the potato.
Put the potato in the toaster oven for a few minutes. Have children quickly feel the surface temperature of the potato and measure the surface temperature. Then measure the internal temperature.
This activity will help children understand how the sun warms the surface of the earth.
- Global warming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- This article is about the current period of increasing global temperature.
Keep track of the Weather
Is Global Warming affecting your Town?
Weather Pocket Chart
Available on Amazon
You can't measure global warming on a daily basis but if you compare records from many years, from many places it starts to become evident.
To understand how people keep track of the weather you can keep track of the weather during Calendar Time.
If you keep these records from year to year the children will be able to compare information from when their older siblings were their age.
Invite grandparents to come in and share their stories of the weather when they are children. Can they see signs of Global Warming?
The Three State of Matter
Global Warming is evident in the States of Water
2. Put some water in the refrigerator and have the children observe that the water stays a liquid.
3. Boil some water and have the children observe that at higher temperatures the water turns to a gas and dissipates into the air.
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Molicules are moving fast when water is in a gaseous state. In a liquid state an oxygen molecule holds onto two hydrogen molecules. In a solid state groups of H2O huddle close together.
Use this information to create a game on the playground. Call out ice, water or steam. Groups need to form or disapate according to the state of matter called out.
Then use this information to change the climate. Use terms to explain the effects of global warming.
- The Three Forms of Water
- Pure water is tasteless, odorless, and colorless. Water can occur in three states: solid (ice), liquid, or gas (vapor).
- Relationship Between the Surface Area of a Liquid and the Rate of Evaportion | Education.com
- Design a middle school science fair experiment to measure rate of evaporation of water in containers with different surface areas in a fun and easy way.
Hot vs. Cold
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To help understand the difference between hot and cold, put hot water in the duck and cold water in the fish and pass around in the circle. Have the children feel the difference.
Next have them close their eyes and see if they can feel the difference.
Note: I chose the duck because it is warm blooded and the fish because it is cold blooded and thus could be used for other lessons.
Amazon no longer sells the fillable ducks and fish. The closest I could find were these sponges. Maybe the puppet sponges could be filled with ziplock bags of ice cubes and hot water.
Global Warming: Hot or Cold
These books will help the children understand hot verses cold and how that effects animals that live in hot or cold climates.
After reading about thermometers, have children experiment with measuring temperatures:
1. In the freezer.
2. In the refrigerator.
3. In the sun vs. the shade.
4. Near the radiator or heater.
Keep a daily temperature record at Calendar Time.
If you live in a warm climate, arrange for a field trip to a local supermarket where they have a walk-in cooler. Talk with the children about how they feel about the change in temperature. Could they survive in such a climate?
Next visit a pizza parlor and check out the heat near the pizza oven.
How would you feel about living in these extreme climates?
Reading and Understanding Global Warming
Books about Global Warming
These are books that extend the concept of Global Warming and What Can We Do even offers suggestions that children can do.
1. Help children brainstorm ideas to help with Global Warming.
2. Invite parents to come in and share ways that they are trying to help.
Emphasis that it take every one of us, working together to make a difference but together we can do it.
Why are the polar Caps Melting?
Photo Credit: Ice Cube
on WikiCommons
Show the children a globe and point out where the polar regions are. Talk about how this is a cold region, like the air in the freezer, and how even in the summer the snow never melts.
Notice how our hands are warm. Notice that an ice cube is cold.
Gather in a circle on the rug and pass around an ice cube. As you pass it it will melt.
The longer the ice cube is kept warm the sooner it melts.
- Pre-K Winter Unit
- Ice Cube Game
Water Flows Downhill
As the water melts the lakes and oceans rise.
1. The children can use spray bottles to see how the water always flow downhill.
2. After a few days put some ice cubes or frost from the freezer on the tops of the mountains and see how the snow and ice melt and run downhill.
The water will form lakes and streams. Put some Monopoly houses along the lake shore. Allow more snow or ice to melt from the tops of the mountains.
Notice how the level of the lake rises and the houses get flooded.
Holding an Ice Cube
Children love experimenting with ice. What happens when the ice is dirty. How does the sand effect the time it takes for the ice to melt?
The ice cube in this little boy's hand is covered in sand.
Related Weather Topics
Ice Cube Melting on the Sidewalk
How fast does the ice cube in the shade melt in comparison to the one in the sun? The ozone layer acts somewhat like the shade of the tree. The world is heating up because the ozone layer is disappearing.
Global Warming Activities
Gather the children around a table. Show the children a lamp with an incandescent light bulb. Have the children feel the bulb when it is off. Notice that it is cold.
Turn the lamp on. Have children hold their hands just above it and notice that the bulb is hot.Now repeat this with a new florescent bulb.
Notice how that bulb stays cool.Florescent bulbs don't waste energy giving off so much heat.
Changing bulbs to florescent will help to slow Global Warming.
- Global Warming Activity, Kindergarten
- How can we help young children begin to grasp important environmental issues while empowering them to make a difference? The following classroom activity introduces the topic of global warming to a kindergarten level, with "Mother Earth" asking the students to help keep her healthy.
- Weather Lesson Plans and Themes
- Weather Lesson Plans and Themes
Your reaction to Global Warming
Global Warming
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Can children understand Global Warming?
Yes
sherridan says:
Children learn about it from an early age and can talk about better than adults! They have grown up with it being taken seriously
virtualboy says:
To a certain degree I would say yes.
tler says:
u lot r stupid and suck dick
Kirsty says:
I think global warming is when the planet gets warmer and warmer we can help stop it by recycling!
Lynsey says:
yes i understand it easy it is when the earth heats up cause by greenhouse gases such as methane, co2 and few more.
me says:
yes , ofcourse
Pratibha says:
yes ,.why not those who are intelligent they can like me But we should try to stop global warming as it is possible
Me says:
Children as young as 3 or 4 can understand the process of ice melting and causing flooding through an ice cap experiment. They can see the ice decrease, and so the polar bears have less land, and the water increase and flood 'islands' with houses on.
Sequoia-Technology says:
Yes children can understand global warming, but maybe they don't understand the the wider knock on effects to themselves.
I think you have some great ideas of how global warming issues can be explained to kids.
josh says:
i can
vixen says:
dave why can't we understand ? we can ! but you can't !
Donnette says:
Absolutely.
efriedman says:
Yes. It's important to help children understand basic concepts, to collect evidence and to reason from that evidence. Your light bulb exercise, for example, is a good way to teach children to think. They learn the difference in the bulbs' energy consumption and can make their own conclusions about the significance. (you may light to conserve energy in any event).
akumar46 says:
Yes,today's children are too smart to understand Global Warming when told properly.
Alexx says:
Yes , if you can explain it proprly they can understand everything
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LensSeller says:
Yes, providing it's explained to them in the way that you have illustrated.
Erica says:
yes they can. Chidren are smarter than what we give them credit for often times.
23squidoo says:
With good educational tools like these children can certainly understand subjects such as climate change and the greenhouse effect. Regardless of your stand on "global warming," the scientific concepts are sound and should be learned and understood by all.
ella says:
We better stop global warming very soon!!!!!!!!!!
Sally says:
Ofcourse they can and to be ignorant and say they shouldn't have to worry about it is just rediculous. It's their futures that are at stake. Making them aware of their actions is being a responsible adult.
No
theholidayplace says:
dont think si
slj says:
fhil,g
Me says:
someone needs to explane
kathiresan says:
i need an article on global warming
james marvin abroso says:
because they are too young to talk about this situation.
maSTER4567 says:
what is global warming
EditorDave says:
No. Because evidently even the general public (and our politicians) are baffled by it. Because it's bogus. We're coming out of an "Ice Age" ... and that is the definition of "warming" (although with the weather lately (and all the snow), you'd be hard put to *prove* "global warming" to ANYONE... and kids can see through all the political baloney. The world *does* have something called "climate change" ... and it's cyclical. If you are going to teach science, then teach that some things are provable FACTS and some things are THEORIES (and some theories are based on improper observations so are bogus to start with). Sorry. I'll get off my soap box now.
sds says:
no
SantaClaws1 says:
They can but it makes no sense in scaring them in this fashion, they can't make a difference.Spelling Games
katrina says:
this is dum.
jimmy says:
huh!!!i'm cannot understand!!please..using a simple english..thank you
ooga says:
what?
dudu says:
i can't
6uuuyrjyj says:
never
yamini says:
no
karthik says:
we can
Alisha says:
i cant
How to Make a terrarium
Observing Global Warming or the Greenhouse Effect on a Small Scale
Help the children set up several terrariums. Once they are stabilized it is time to start experimenting.
1. What happens if more water is added to one?
2. What happens if you take the top off one and allow it to dry out?
3. What happens if you put one in direct sunlight?
4. What happens if you put one in the refrigerator or freezer?
5. Leave at least one without changes as a control.
Keep a record of the experiments with photos and written observation.
To extrapolate from the information gathered talk about how Global Warming is effecting the earth.
- How to Make a terrarium
- Lots of great information and tutorials on how to make terrariums. Soda bottle, glass, even aquarium sized terrariums.
Global Warming and Baking Cookies
Photo Credit: Baking Cookies
on Flickr, Creative Commons
Mix up a batch of cookies and then let the children watch as the heat melts the batter, rises up and then sinks down and cracks after taking them out.
Photo Credit: Drought
on Flickr, Creative Commons
When ponds dry up, the mud in the pond resembles the cracked cookies. As the earth warms up some areas of the earth are drying out.
Global Warming Cookie Recipe
Global Warming Bake Sale
Why not hold a Global Warming Bake Sale?Make your favorite cookie recipe and have a bake sale. The profits can be used to help promote solar energy, recycling and reducing waste. Young children love to bake and eat cookies and this project will help them feel like they are a part of the solution rather than just a part of the problem.
Photo Credit: Global Warming Bake Sale
on Flickr, Creative Commons
Children can Help Slow Global Warming
How can you help stop Global Warming?
Here are some of the things children can do to help slow Global Warming. Please add to the suggestions and come back often to check out more ideas.
Together we can make a difference.
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“Together we can make a difference. Let's stop Global Warming!”
Children can Help to Stop Global Warming
- Stephen Lewis Foundation
- We put on a bake sale, with "Global Warming" cookies, and spread awareness and sugary goodness at the same time!
- Tucson kids help scientists research global warming
- The National Phenology Network is enlisting volunteers to help track early spring blooms and eventually changes in animals caused by global warming. It's called Project BudBurst. When it debuted last year, thousands of people participated in 26 states.
"All people can contribute to it by tracking the timing of flowering events or leaf-out events for plants and animals in their back yard," said phenology network director Jake Weltzin.
Reusable Bags Help Stop Global Warming
Photo Credit: Shopping Bag
From WPClipart
When you go to the grocery store or any other shop, take along a cloth bag to bring home your purchases. I have canvas bags that I have used over and over for more than 20 years.
Think how many trees were saved by not turning them into paper bags. Trees are needed to produce oxygen and absorb the carbon dioxide that causes global warming.
People tell us that plastic bags are now recyclable but they don't tell us that after being recycled one time they become hard plastic that can't be used again. The process to make the plastic bags, recycle the bags and transport the bags uses energy that contributes to global warming.
Cloth bags encourage the growth of cotton plants and, as we know, plants absorb carbon dioxide reducing the cause of global warming.
Global Warming: An Inconvenient Truth
Background information for Teachers on Global Warming
How could the information presented in this movie be explained to small children?
Tom Paxton - Whose garden was this?
What are we doing to our World?
It must have been lovely.
Did it have flowers?
I've seen pictures of flowers,
And I'd love to have smelled one.
Pete Seeger and Climate Change
Sing and help Stop Global Warming
One blue sky above us,
One ocean lapping all our shores,
One Earth so green and round,
Who could ask for more?
Think Globally, Act Locally
Pete Seeger and Global Warming
How does this message empower us to make a difference in the effort to stop global warming?
Look Who's Twittering about Global Warming
How is Global Warming effecting Polar Animals?
Global Warming in the News!
- More than 2 trillion tons of arctic ice has melted since 2003 - Yahoo! News
- More than 2 trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted since 2003, according to new NASA satellite data that show the latest signs of what scientists say is global warming. News, Headlines and Latest Stories on Yahoo! News
- Slow Sunday: The simple solution to global warming
- Satish Kumar: Using Sunday as a day of rest would be good for our personal health as well as the health of the planet ...declare Sunday to be a fossil fuel-free day ...
- Oncor Smart Meter - In Home Energy Monitor and Smart Meter - thedailygreen.com
- An in-home energy monitor and a smart meter helped this Oncor customer save. But how much energy and money will a massive Texas smart meter deployment really save?
Wind Power Science Experiments
Producing Clean Energy
Now make another pinwheel with a long pin, maybe a hatpin in the center that spins with the pinwheel. Set a wet bar of soap on the edge of a table and hold the pinwheel gently just touching the soap allowing it to still rotate. Notice that the rotating pinwheel eats into the bar of soap.
This is how windmills were used to grind wheat. How else could the wind be used to replace fossil fuels?
Observing and Recording the Effects of Global Warming
Stone Stoup Homeschooling Online Unit Study Directory
Global Warming For Children is in the Stone Stoup Homeschooling Online Unit Study Directory
Thank you to the Four Wheelers for having included the Global Warming for Children in their directory. This directory has now been passed on to Stone Soup Homeschooling.
- Stone Stoup Homeschooling Online Unit Study Directory
- Directory of unit studies with hundreds of fun, creative, hands-on learning activities for homeschoolers and classroom teachers.
How have you helped your children to understand Global Warming?
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virtualboy
Apr 8, 2012 @ 7:04 am | delete
- i don't have any children yet
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jarredneil
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- Arguments Against Global Warming
http://argumentsagainstglobalwarming.org/
Even though there are so many talks and forums that have been given to teach the people about global warming, there are still so many arguments about global warming that have arisen over the years. Most of the arguments about global warming are not facts and are just speculations of people or their assumptions about what they think is happening to the world.
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sukkran Oct 25, 2011 @ 5:28 am | delete
- very important subject and well presented lens. ~blessed~
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APackageAtTheDoor
Oct 16, 2011 @ 9:29 pm | delete
- Great creative lens. Thank you!
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Spaldo
Jul 17, 2011 @ 12:16 am | delete
- Very good article enjoyed reading very informative.I also have created a page upon Global warming being beneficial check it out at http://www.squidoo.com/global-warming-bright-future
and give me some feedback,i want to know people's views
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phoenix-arizona-friends
Jul 15, 2011 @ 6:42 pm | delete
- Cool lens.
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Donnette
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- Your unit studies are wonderful!
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- Kids have to learn from your lens. So easy to read and enjoy.
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akumar46
May 22, 2011 @ 9:15 pm | delete
- Nice information on Global Warming for every one....Every one must think about it.Great lens.
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sushilkin Apr 21, 2011 @ 11:00 am | delete
- Such a nice lens. Thanks for Sharing !!
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LensSeller
Apr 18, 2011 @ 9:25 am | delete
- Superb lens Evelyn. Thanks for all the hardwork you've clearly put into creating it. Your passion for teaching really shines through.
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23squidoo
Feb 27, 2011 @ 7:20 pm | delete
- An excellent and educational lens for students of all ages. Blessed by your Science neighborhood Squid Angel!
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TeamSTM
Feb 18, 2011 @ 10:18 pm | delete
- Wake up world, this is our Mother, we All need to take care of her! We need her as much as she needs us!
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SereneSea Jan 8, 2011 @ 11:34 am | delete
- Very educational -not only for children but grownups too.
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teachingtools
Nov 19, 2010 @ 12:44 am | delete
- Great lens and ideas! Don't forget you can use free certificate templates to reward your students for their successes!
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SofiaMann
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- Yes. Has been a topic of conversation during meals.
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kevinride
Aug 2, 2010 @ 6:47 am | delete
- To help more kids better understand global warming, the Pew Center recently collaborated with Nickelodeon to research children's and parents' attitudes and behaviors toward the environment. Nickelodeon is using the information for an interactive campaign called The Big Green Help.
http://www.globalwarmingsurvivalcenter.com/
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Jmel37
May 31, 2010 @ 12:31 pm | delete
- I've done hands-on projects to demonstrate the amount of waste people produce which I have shown on my own lens but I really like some of the hands on teaching methods on global warming you outlined here. They are a lot quicker and simpler than what I've done. I will be trying some of them out with my kindergartners! Great lens!
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skiesgreen
May 4, 2010 @ 3:27 am | delete
- What an excellent lens. Blessed and featured on Sprinkled with Stardust, Save the Earth and Floods, Droughts and Climate Change,.
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Teddi14
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- This lens is excellent. I will use ideas from here! 5 *'s.
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