OAPT Newsletter Presents Grade 9–12 Climate-Change Physics Activities

• Dan MacIsaac ^[1]
  1. [1] Physics Department, SUNY-Buffalo State University , Buffalo
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 62, Nº. 1, 2024, págs. 77-77
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Ontario physics teachers Milica Rakic and Roberta Tevlin explain how to use Project Drawdown climate change mitigations and solutions while teaching standard Ontario high school units on electricity, climate change, and energy transformations. The drawdown.org site describes more than 92 techniques reducing sources of carbon, supporting carbon sinks, and improving society while seeking to avoid climate catastrophe by drawing down atmospheric greenhouse gases like CO2. Important ideas like including CO2 emissions in manufacture, installation, and operation of drawdown solutions, upfront costs and amortized costs for the authors’ chosen 19 approaches (think EVs, LED lighting, concentrated and distributed solar, various wind resources, nuclear, hydro, etc.). These ideas can be discussed and roughly compared using a simple downloadable author-provided spreadsheet together with extensive lesson plan/classroom discussion prompts and notes. As the authors insightfully note, “Climate change is real, and we have the technological solutions. What we need to do now is to pressure the government to get them implemented.”