ae.07 Climate change and the European Alps

Content

  • Statement of inquiry
    • Scientific and technical innovators need to understand how power affects the processes that occur within systems.
  • Factual questions [Remembering facts and topics]
    • What are the impacts of climate change upon alpine glaciers focused Switzerland.
  • Aims of this lesson
    • To develop your knowledge and understanding of climate change and its impact upon glacial systems in Switzerland.

Base knowledge and understanding

Video clip

[6 June 2020]
Link

Timelines

Visualization

Context

Context

Write

Note making frame

Read

Resources

Command terms

Describe

Explain

Outline

Discuss

Monthly global mean temperature 1851 to 2020

Figure 1 [Questions 1 + 2]

[Source]

Figure 2 [Questions 2 +4]

Figure 3 [Questions 5 + 6]

Link

swissinfo.ch - How climate change affects Switzerland [6 August 2019]

Figure 4 and 5 [Question 7]

Figure 6 [Question 8 + 9]

Figure 7 [Question 9]

Figure 8 [Question 9]

Figure 9 [Question 10]

Link

SwissGlacier.org - Before/after comparison photo of Great Aletsch Glacier (Swiss Alps)

Figure 10 [Question 11]

Link

SwissGlacier.org - Before/after comparison photo of Rhone glacier (Valais, Swiss Alps)

Question 12

Link

swissinfo.ch - Glaciers and the changing landscape in the Alps [26 August 2019]

Extension task