WWF produces information packs for schools on popular topics. The link below takes you to resources that will support this unit.
http://www.wwflearning.org.uk/wwflearning-home/resource-centre/information-packs/

BBC weather centre – climate change explained.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/evidence/greenhouse_effect_img.shtml

BBC has a website presenting the results of the world’s largest climate modelling experiment. Each participant in the modelling experiment downloaded a computer model that used spare processing power to predict future climate. Scientists at Oxford University compiled the most comprehensive prediction yet for the Earth’s climate up to 2080.

Results of climate change simulation: maps predicting what global temperatures could be like in 2020, 2050 and 2070
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/climateexperiment/theresult/globalcontext.shtml

News article that reports bears have stopped hibernating in the mountains of northern Spain – possible effect of climate change: ‘Climate Change vs Mother Nature: Scientists Reveal That Bears Have Stopped Hibernating’, published December 21, 2006 by the Independent newspaper
http://environment.independent.co.uk/wildlife/article2091875.ece

Teachers could give students some links from this list. Is each due to global warming or just a ‘one off’ event? They would need to check for further data. Possibly an extension activity.

Flowers in Alps, Bears Can't Sleep as Winter Waits
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39298/story.htm

Q&A on natural events, including ‘What are greenhouse gases and why are they important?’
http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=13&articleID=104

Some interesting data – greenhouse gases, tundra, polar bears and penguins, from The Arctic Environment Times, August 2002
http://www.environmenttimes.net/_documents/arctic_08.pdf

Wikipedia entry on global warming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

Wikipedia entry on the greenhouse effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect

Website that explains carbon footprints, with calculator
http://www.carbonfootprint.com/

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