Teaching Systems Principles and Policy Applications Using a Reduced-Scale Carbon Cycle Model for Global Warming From: Journal of Geoscience Education | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: LaRocca, Sarah; Crawford-Brown, Douglas | Copyright National Association of Geoscience Teachers May 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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The Carbon Cycle module provides a tool for interdisciplinary, team-based assessment of the causes and solutions to changes in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, for use in high-school or introductory undergraduate courses in earth systems science or environmental science. A reduced-scale model (i.e. a model whose complexity is well below that of full scientific models, and yet reproduces the behavior of those more complex models) has been developed that allows students to syst...

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