Lesson Plans: Tropical Western Pacific
These lesson plans were developed using the two volumes of Climate Change and Sea Level from the curriculum development project for the Tropical Western Pacific schools in Nauru, Manus, and Port Moresby. These plans are general science lessons on the atmosphere, ocean, weather and climate, and climate change. They are a great resource for teachers and classrooms everywhere.
- Acid Rain
- Air Density and Temperature
- Air Pressure
- Amount of Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere
- Climate in the Pacific Region
- Coastal Erosion
- Current Weather
- Dissolved Gases in Water
- Effects of Solar Radiation on Land and Sea
- Environmental Changes
- Estimating Local Sea Level
- Expansion of Population and the Environment
- Global Warming
- Historical Climate Statistics
- Making Clouds
- Measuring Quantities of Gases
- Microclimate
- Moving Water and Waves
- Observing Wind Speed and Cloudiness
- Ocean Currents
- Outgassing
- Past Sea Level Data
- Plant Growth and Carbon Dioxide
- Planting Trees
- Rainfall and the Water Table (PDF, 625KB)
- Rate of Coral Growth
- Reason for the Seasons
- Sea Water and Agriculture
- Simple Light Scattering
- Sunlight and Water Evaporation
- Surface Currents
- Temperature of the Pacific Ocean
- The Pacific and El Niño
- Thermal Expansion of Water (PDF, 870KB)
- Weather and Climate Statistics
- When Floating Ice Melts In the Sea (PDF, 631KB)
- When Land Ice Melts
- Why is it Hotter at the Equator? (PDF, 1.6MB)
- Winds
- Your Own Greenhouse
