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Student directions The Greenhouse Effect activity
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Learning Goals: Students will be able to
• Compare and contrast “light photons” and “infrared photons”.
• Identify what happens to light photons when they get to Earth and why the temperature of the
earth and its atmosphere changes.
• Design experiments to observe how clouds change the photons behavior
• Design experiments to observe how greenhouse gases change the photons behavior
• Compare and contrast cloud behavior and greenhouse gas behavior.
• Use the Photon Absorption tab to identify if molecules are Greenhouse Gases and give the
microscopic evidence that supports your ideas.
• Explain why inside a building or car sometimes is a different temperature than outside.
Extension:
• Discover when the “Ice Age” was and what was has changed about the composition of the
greenhouse gases.
Important simulation information:
➢ When you start The Greenhouse Effect or use
and light photons start coming from the sun.
,the earth temperature is reset to cold
➢ You might want to use the speed
, pause
, and step
tools to help you watch
the photon and temperature changes.
➢ Investigate the three tabs at the top of the simulation. Play around with these and various settings
inside each tab to get a feel for how the simulation works before continuing on to the Directions
below.
Directions:
In a separate Word document, answer questions 1 through 6 and the Extension (on second page).
Make sure to fully answer each question and all of its parts for full credit.
1. Define “light photons” and “infrared photons”
a. How are they represented in the simulation?
b. If you were talking to a friend about what you observe, how would you explain what is
happening with the energy from the sun and the energy from the Earth?
2. In the winter, weather reporters often day “It will be a very cold night because there are no
clouds.”
a. Use the sim to see if you can understand why this could be true.
b. Describe your observations.
c. Would there be a difference between daytime and nighttime cloud effects? If so, what
are they?
3. How can you make the greenhouse gases act similar to clouds?
a. Explain what you did.
b. Give the evidence to prove you made them act alike in a few different situations.
4. What do you notice about greenhouse gas effect on photons that is different from clouds? Give
examples from situations that you made in the sim to support your ideas.
5. Use the Photon Absorption tab to identify which of the molecules provided in the sims are
Greenhouse Gases. State microscopic evidence that supports your ideas.
11/13/2017 Edit of original by Loeblein
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Student directions The Greenhouse Effect activity
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6. Why do you think the inside of a car feels so much warmer than its surroundings on sunny days?
a. How can you use the sim to test your ideas?
b. Describe your experiment and state some evidence that explain the different temperatures
on a microscopic level using photons.
Extension: Discover when the “Ice Age” was and what was has changed about the composition of the
greenhouse gases. Include citations for your answers. How did the sim developers usee research
information in the sim design?
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