PBL

Global Climate Change Permafrost and the changing Arctic

Team Task:
Due to the political connections to changes in the poles, your group has been asked to analyze the question of whether or not there are significant changes occurring in the Arctic regions. Determining whether the changes warrant alarm, as well as, what can be done to mitigate these changes should be part of your determination.

Cycle A Student as a Problem Solver	Cycle B Student as a Model Designer	Cycle C Student as a Scholar

Global Warming For additional information regarding the effects of permafrost and global warming... visit the following site.
Global Warming	Living in a Greenhouse	Climate Change and Polar Regions
Greenhouse Effect	Effects of Climate Change	Climate and Global Change
What is the Greenhouse Effect?	Global Warming	Global Warming 101

Before you can start your research regarding the Permafrost Module, you must first have an understanding of how your assigned sphere works. Wht it's made of, how it works, etc. This will help you understand how the sphere affects the problem, how the problem affects sphere, as well as how the affected sphere has an affect the other three spheres.

Click on your ssigned sphere to become aquianted with the inner workings of your sphere.

Lithosphere	Atmosphere	Hydrosphere	Biosphere: Plants & Animals
			Biosphere: Human Effects
Spheres
General Resources

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Throughout this school year students will be using Problem Based Learning Model to learn about earth System Science. Below is a brief summary of the PBL Model that will be used in class.

Read and analyze the scenario and situation.
List personal understanding, ideas, or hunches.
List what is known.
List what is unknown.
List what needs to be done.
Develop a problem statement.
Gather information.
Present findings.