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CLIMATE CHANGE ‘net zero’ emissions target

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Climate change: ‘Net zero’ introduction
How will the ‘net-zero’ target affect your local area?

Assessing the local impact of the government’s ‘net-zero’ targets for carbon emissions
How will the ‘net-zero’ target affect your local area?  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Harnessing the power of the Sun
Could solar farms be used in your area?
Harnessing the power of the Sun  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Harnessing the power of waves
Investigating the development of wave power
Harnessing the power of waves  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Farming the wind – through onshore and offshore windfarms
A discussion on the local and national potential of developing wind energy sources
Farming the wind - through onshore and offshore wind farms  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Tidal energy
Can the tides be harnessed to produce green energy?
Tidal energy  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Nuclear power - harnessing the energy of the atom
Investigating the use of nuclear power now and in the future
Nuclear power  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Nuclear waste disposal
Investigating geological disposal facilities (GDFs)
Nuclear waste disposal  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Liquid biofuels - keeping our wheels turning into the future
Investigating fuels produced from biomass
Biofuels  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Blue Hydrogen – the fuel of the future?
Could “blue” hydrogen be produced and used here
Blue Hydrogen - the fuel of the future?  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Hydrogen of many colours
The situation regarding hydrogen in the UK, October 2021
Hydrogen of many colours  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Deep geothermal power from ‘hot dry rocks’: an option in your area?
A discussion of potential for extracting ‘hot dry rocks’ geothermal energy locally
Geothermal power from ‘hot dry rocks’  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ A new use for old coal mines
A potential source of energy from beneath our feet
New use for old coal mines  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Small-scale hydroelectric power schemes
Investigating opportunities for micro-hydro
Small-scale hydroelectric power schemes  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Heat from the Earth
Investigating ground source heat pumps
Ground source heat pumps  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Energy from burning waste
Where does all my non-recyclable waste go?
Energy from burning waste  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Energy from buried waste
Landfill gas
Energy from buried waste  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Capturing carbon?
Can we capture and store carbon from burning fuel, cement- and steel-making? Should we?
Capturing carbon?  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Nuclear batteries - the future?
Investigating advances in battery technology
Advances in battery technology  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Green hydrogen used to even out renewable energy supplies?
Could ‘green hydrogen’ be the solution to the efficient use of renewable energy?
Green hydrogen  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Matching supply and demand using stored water
Pumped storage hydroelectric schemes – just-in-time power
Storing water power  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Storing gas underground: What can we store? How can we do it? How will it help?
A discussion on gas power sources that can be stored and the storage conditions needed
Gas storage underground  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Electric vehicles - the way to go?
Investigating the advantages and disadvantage of EVs
Electric vehicles - the way to go? Video
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ How do I choose the best insulation?
Investigating enhanced insulation for buildings
Building insulation  
Speeding up nature to trap carbon dioxide
The potential role of enhanced weathering and carbonation in mitigating climate change
Enhanced weathering Extension
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Let’s plant some trees
Investigating the importance of trees to our planet
Let’s plant some trees  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ How will rising sea level affect our coastlines?
... and what can be done to adapt to rising sea levels?
How will rising sea level affect our coastlines?  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Inland flooding: a Sheffield case study
How should we respond to the increased risk of inland flooding as temperatures rise?
Inland flooding: a Sheffield case study  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ Landslide danger
Case studies of how landslides work and the likely effects of climate change
Landslide danger  
Climate change: ‘Net zero’ The future for global agriculture
The adaptation of agriculture to climate change
Adaptation of agriculture  

CLIMATE CHANGE - general

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Climate on arrival
If you suddenly arrived somewhere – what would tell you what the climate was like?
Climate on arrival  
How can the ice core evidence for climate change be explained? (ELI+)
An educational opportunity for discussing evidence, hypotheses and possible responses
Ice core evidence for climate change  
Modelling tipping points – by hands
Demonstrating tipping points in the Earth’s system with the hands of three people
Tipping points - by hands  
Melting ice and sea level change 1
Does sea level change when floating sea ice melts?
Melting ice and sea level change 1 Teaching video
Melting ice and sea level change 2
Does sea level change when ice caps melt?
Melting ice and sea level change 2 Teaching video
Ocean acidification - The other CO2 problem
See how acidified water affects calcareous marine organisms
Ocean acidification
Oxygen isotope sweet simulation (ELI+)
Demonstrating how the oxygen isotope proxy records past Earth temperatures
Oxygen isotope sweet simulation  
Oxygen isotopes - Interpret Earth temperatures from simulated deep-sea and ice cores (ELI+)
Using sweets to simulate oxygen isotope ratios in cores
Oxygen isotope ratios in cores  
What could we measure to find out if climate change is happening here?
What climate change indicators could be measured in our own backyard or school grounds?
Measuring climate change  

ENVIRONMENT

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Environmental detective
Imagining how the evidence of modern environments could become preserved
Environmental detective  
Envronmental evaluation
Developing a strategy for evaluating the environment
Environmental evaluation  
Finding the Earth in the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Map for yourself the areas where Earth studies are linked to the UN SDGs
Sustainable development  
Fishing game : beware of overfishing
A game showing how fish stocks should be managed sustainably
Fishing game  
Playground continents
A palaeogeography in your school yard
Playground continents  
So, you want to conserve a geodiversity site
What could you do if you wanted to conserve a geoscience site?
Conserving a geodiversity site  
Take it or leave it? - the geoconservation debate
When is collecting wrong, and when is it right? - try to decide for yourself
Geoconservation  
What colour was the world in the past?
Using rock evidence and ‘the present is the key to the past’ to colour the geological world
What colour was the world in the past?  
Why is the Dead Sea dead?
Measuring salinity
Dead Sea - salinity  

POWER SOURCES

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Future power: predicting the mix of future power source contributions (ELI+)
Extrapolating from the last 50 years of power use to realistically predict the next 50 years
Future power: predicting the mix of future power source contributions  
Geothermal - Rock power: geothermal power simulations (ELI+)
Modelling geothermal power sources - renewable or not?
Rock power  
Geothermal - Deep geothermal power from ‘hot dry rocks’: an option in your area?
A discussion of potential for extracting ‘hot dry rocks’ geothermal energy loca
Geothermal power from ‘hot dry rocks’  
Geothermal - A new use for old coal mines
A potential source of energy from beneath our feet
New use for old coal mines  
Ground source - Heat from the Earth
Investigating ground source heat pumps
Ground source heat pumps  
HEP - Small-scale hydroelectric power schemes
Investigating opportunities for micro-hydro
Small-scale hydroelectric power schemes  
Hydrogen - Blue Hydrogen – the fuel of the future?
Could “blue” hydrogen be produced and used here
Blue Hydrogen - the fuel of the future?  
Hydrogen - Green hydrogen used to even out renewable energy supplies?
Could ‘green hydrogen’ be the solution to the efficient use of renewable energy?
Green hydrogen  
Hydrogen of many colours
The situation regarding hydrogen in the UK, October 2021
Hydrogen of many colours  
Power through the window
Which power source might be built in the view you can see from your window?
Power through the window  
Solar - Harnessing the power of the Sun
Could solar farms be used in your area?
Harnessing the power of the Sun  
Tidal energy
Can the tides be harnessed to produce green energy?
Tidal energy  
Waste - Energy from burning waste
Where does all my non-recyclable waste go?
Energy from burning waste  
Waste - Energy from buried waste
Landfill gas
Energy from buried waste  
What is/are the least bad option(s) for plugging the future global energy gap?
A discussion on the least-damaging ways to meet world energy needs in the future
Plugging future global energy gap?  
Where does offshore oil come from?
An activity to dispel misconceptions about the source of oil
Offshore oil  
Which power source? - solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)
Searching for all the power sources that could be developed in a mythical country
Power sources Extension

RESOURCES

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Gold prospectors
Panning for ‘gold’ in river sediment
Gold panning  
Hydrothermal mineralisation - interactive (ELI+)
‘The rock with the hole’ hydrothermal mineralisation demo
Hydrothermal mineralisation  
Make your own oil and gas reservoir
Demonstrating how oil and water flow through permeable rocks
Make your own oil and gas reservoir  
Quarry through the window - what would you see, what would you not see?
Asking pupils to ‘picture’ what a ‘quarry through the window” might look like
Quarry through the window  
Riches in the river
Investigating how valuable ores may become concentrated on river beds
Riches in the river Extension
Trapped! Why can’t oil and gas escape from their underground prison?
Demonstrate how oil and gas can be trapped in reservoir rocks beneath the surface
Trapped! Why can’t oil and gas escape from their underground prison? Teaching video
Teaching video in the lab
Where shall we drill for oil?
Sorting out the sequence - oil prospect
Where shall we drill for oil?