Syllabus

WEEK 1
Unit 1: Is the Earth Getting Warmer?
12 videos, 8 readings, 6 practice quizzes
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Graded: Check Your Understanding: “UN Report: Last 10 Years Likely the Hottest Decade on
Record"
Graded: Check Your Understanding: "Climate Change: How Do we Know?"
Graded: Unit 1 Assessment 2: Climate Change

WEEK 2
Unit 2: The Greenhouse Effect
12 videos, 9 readings, 6 practice quizzes
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Graded: Check Your Understanding: "A Blanket Around the Earth"
Graded: Unit 2 Assessment 1: Label the Parts of the Greenhouse Effect Diagram
Graded: Check Your Understanding: "Need Strategies to Clear the Air? Ask a Megacity."
Graded: Unit 2 Assessment 2: Manmade Source of the Greenhouse Effect

WEEK 3
The Impacts of Climate Change on our World
11 videos, 8 readings, 5 practice quizzes
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Graded: Check Your Understanding: "The Consequences of Climate Change"
Graded: Unit 3 Assessment 1: The Effects of Climate Change on the Environment
Graded: Check Your Understanding: "New Study Suggests Global Marine Food Chain Collapse"

WEEK 4
Discovering Cleaner Energy Sources to Power the World
11 videos, 10 readings, 5 practice quizzes
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Graded: Check Your Understanding: "Indian Scientists Design Solar Tree to Save Space for Solar
Power Generation"
Graded: Unit 4 Assessment 1: Summary
Graded: Check Your Understanding: "Salting away renewable energy for future use."
Graded: Unit 4 Assessment 2: Suggesting a New Energy System
WEEK 5
What Might the Future Hold?
11 videos, 8 readings, 5 practice quizzes
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Graded: Check Your Understanding: "Can the Earth Be Saved by Turning CO2 to Stone?"
Graded: Unit 5 Assessment 1: Making New Technology Practical and Profitable
Graded: Check Your Understanding: "Profits From Eco-friendly Vertical Farming Stack Up"
Graded: Unit 5 Assessment 2: Peer Review: Reducing the Impacts of Climate Change