Greenhouse gases - Mini Case Study for Climate Detectives
In brief
This mini case study is dedicated to the topic of climate change and greenhouse gases and students will investigate how greenhouse gas emissions and concentrations in the atmosphere evolved in their country in the last decades.
In-depth
The Mini Case Studies for Climate Detectives are intended to help Climate Detectives teams to identify a climate related topic that they can investigate and that applies to real world situations.
In this mini case study, students will try to answer the research questions: “How have greenhouse gas emissions evolved in your country in the last decades? What are the past and present concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere? For that, teachers will find in the resource suggestions of different types of data that students could collect and analyse. The suggestions are not exhaustive, and the teachers may decide on their own specific focus within a given research area.
The mini case study should be used in conjunction with the Climate Detectives teacher guide and not as a standalone document.
Subject: Science; technology
Age range: 12-17 years old
Keywords: Climate; Climate Change; Earth Observation; Greenhouse Gases; Science; Technology
Download: mini case study
This resource is part of a set of resources developed by ESA’s Education Office in collaboration with ESEROs to support the Climate Detectives project.