Topics
Content
Classroom Activities
Checks for Understanding
Managing and Mitigating the Risk of Natural Hazards
Introduction to managing and mitigating the risk of natural hazards
Kahoot: Managing and Mitigating Hazards
Insurance for mitigating the risks associated with natural hazards
Preventative measures against the effect of natural hazards
Who is responsible for risk mitigation
When does a hazard become a disaster?
Natural hazards practical
Exploring vulnerability in natural disasters
Concerns for vulnerable groups during natural disasters
Managing Earthquake hazard by mapping potential risks
Human Effect on Hazards
How does land use impact on natural hazards?
Kahoot: Human Effects on Hazards
Human impact on geological hazards
Human effect on hazards: Palu Landslide 2018
Plate Tectonics
Introduction to plate tectonics
Kahoot: Plate Tectonics
How the plate tectonic processes impact on other Earth processes
Plate tectonics impact on Antarctic climate
Natural Process and Human Activity on Climate Change
An overview of climate change over time
Kahoot: Natural Processes and Human Activity on Climate Change
Human activity interacts with natural processes
Climate extremes
Plate tectonic supercycle
Orbitally induced solar radiation fluctuations
Eccentricity
Obliquity
Axial procession
Introduction to ocean circulation as a heat sink
Earth’s oceans act as a conveyor belt
Timescale and introduction to the Milankovitch cycles
Timescale of human activities on climate change
Timescale of plate tectonics on climate change
Evidence for Climate Change Over Time
An introduction to evidence for climate change over time
Kahoot: Evidence for Climate Change Over Time
Investigating pollen at Lake George
How to date pollen
Long term changes at Lake George
Short term changes at Lake George
Ice cores and the Southern Annular Mode
Oxygen as proxy for climate change
Ice core practical
New techniques for measuring climate change
How Climate Change Affects Our Earth
Introduction to Earth System Science
Kahoot: How Climate Change Affects our Earth
Rainfall and temperature index – Climate change affects hydrosphere
Changing extent of Antarctic ice sheets – Climate change affects hydrosphere
Corals as indicators of climate change – Climate change affects hydrosphere
Using oxygen isotopes to infer climate data – Climate change affects hydrosphere
Changes in rainfall – Climate change affects hydrosphere
Crop production – Climate change affects biosphere
Introduction to Cushion plants on Macquarie Island – Climate change affects biosphere
Cushion plants on Macquarie Island: extreme and rare frost event – Climate change affects biosphere
Cushion plants on Macquarie Island: conclusion – Climate change affects biosphere
Human Contribution to Climate Change
Profile of the Scientist: Margi Böhm
Kahoot: Human Contribution to Climate Change
Solar radiation
Greenhouse gases
Carbon dioxide emissions
Carbon dioxide over time
Particulate matter
Radiation over natural vs human impacted environments
Net wattage difference: then and now
What is climate change?
An example of changes in climatic conditions due to climate change
A summary of carbon and climate change
Climate tipping points
Rising sea levels practical
Climate tipping cascades
Global tipping cascade risk
