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Module: Climate change in a nutshell

A broad overview of issues in climate change.

Learning Outcomes

Understand the basic issues in climate change

Readings

The race of our lives, revisited

An overview of climate change issues, by Jeremy Grantham

35 pages 45 minutes

Extreme weather in 2018 was a raging, howling signal of climate change

Washington Post, 12/31/2018, Joel Achenbach

10 minutes

NASA Climate Site

The NASA portal to climate resources, including climate change facts, articles, resources, and visualizations

30 minutes

Experiential Learning

Quiz yourself

See how well you understand the readings

Up to 10 points

What's your passion?

What aspect of climate change is most important to you?

Up to 5 points

Assessments

Module statistics

This assessment gathers a number of summary statistics regarding this module, including:

Profile passion percentage

Outcomes assessed: Understand the basic issues in climate change

This assessment calculates the percentage of people who have viewed the Nutshell module and have filled out their passion in their profile page.

It can serve as a measure of the degree of engagement of people with this initial content, and whether it succeeds in sparking their interest in an area related to climate change.