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National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder, CO Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #2

Some of our games originally developed for exhibit touchscreens Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #3

Exhibit Touchscreens Similar to development for mobile touch devices (smartphones, tablets) Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #4

All models are wrong, but. . . “Essentially, all models are wrong, but some models are useful. ” - George E. P. Box (1951) Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #5

Modeling Planetary Energy Balance • Calculate theoretical temperature of a planet with some simple math • Discover that Earth would be frozen without the greenhouse effect Science Topics • Blackbody Radiator and the Stefan-Boltzman Law • Conservation of Energy (Energy In = Energy Out) • Albedo Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #6

Earth’s Energy Balance URL: scied. ucar. edu/earths-energy-balance Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #7

LASP: Kelvin Climb URL: lasp. colorado. edu/home/education/k-12/project-spectra/kelvin-climb-interactive Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #8

Add an Atmosphere with Greenhouse Gases Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #9

Change distance from Sun Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #10

NASA Spreadsheet: GEEBITT URL: icp. giss. nasa. gov/education/geebitt Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #11

Greenhouse Effect - Ph. ET URL: phet. colorado. edu/en/simulation/greenhouse Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #12

Greenhouse Effect – Concord Consortium What is the future of Earth’s Climate? module URL: concord. org/stem-resources/what-future-earths-climate URL: authoring. concord. org/activities/279/pages/1736/c 05 ea 8 e 7 -f 131 -447 d-8 b 68 -ef 31 c 4 d 2206 b Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #13

Greenhouse Effect – Little Shop of Physics What is a “model”? activity URL: littleshop. physics. colostate. edu/activities/atmos 1/What. Is. AModel. pdf Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #14

Start Equilibrium Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #15

URL: monash. edu/research/simple-climate-model/mscm/index. html Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #16

Columbia University - Ed. GCM URL: edgcm. columbia. edu Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #17

Very, Very Simple Climate Model URL: scied. ucar. edu/simple-climate-model Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #18

Compare Graphs of IPCC Scenarios Version for 5 th Assessment Report under development URL: scied. ucar. edu/compare-ipcc-scenarios-interactive Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #19

Climate Sensitivity Calculator 18° 15° CO 2 in atmosphere doubles. . . temperature goes up 3 degrees 18° 15° URL: scied. ucar. edu/climate-sensitivity-calculator Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #20

Climate Bathtub Animations Atmosphere Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #21 URL: scied. ucar. edu/carbon-cycle-diagram-doe

Climate Bathtub Animations URL: scied. ucar. edu/climate-bathtub-model-animations Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #22

Climate Interactive – Climate Bathtub Simulation URL: www. climateinteractive. org/tools/climate-bathtub-simulation Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #23

Climate Interactive – MIT Greenhouse Gas simulator Also: • World Climate roleplaying activity • World Energy • En-ROADS, C-ROADS and C-Learn URL: www. climateinteractive. org/tools/mits-greenhouse-gas-simulator/ Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #24

URL: scied. ucar. edu/ruler-world Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #25

BBC Climate Challenge URL: www. bbc. co. uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/climate_challenge Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #26

Tree Rings - Dendrochronology Hoping to make a suite of paleoclimate sims; ice cores, sea sediments, etc. URL: scied. ucar. edu/tree-ring-interactive Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #27

Glacier Model - Ph. ET URL: phet. colorado. edu/en/simulation/glaciers Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #28

NASA’s Climate Kids –Power Up! URL: climatekids. nasa. gov/power-up Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #29

NASA’s Climate Kids – OFFSET! URL: climatekids. nasa. gov/offset Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #30

Atmospheric Chemistry Memory Game Easy Level Advanced Level Includes the GHGs carbon dioxide and methane Advanced level: compare equivalent, not identical, representations URL: scied. ucar. edu/molecules-memory-game Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #31

Cloud Sorting Game URL: scied. ucar. edu/cloud-sorting-game Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #32

El Niño Sorting Game Plans for a “Sort Molecules: Greenhouse Gas or non-GHG” version URL: scied. ucar. edu/enso-sorting-game Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #33

Virtual Ballooning – Atmosphere Layers URL: scied. ucar. edu/virtual-ballooning Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #34

Atmosphere Layers URL: scied. ucar. edu/shortcontent/troposphere-overview URL: scied. ucar. edu/shortcontent/stratosphere-overview Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #35

Compare Maps of Future Climate Projections • Compare two different places, or • Compare temperature vs. precipitation for same place URL: scied. ucar. edu/compare-climates-regional-future-selector Games & Simulations for Climate Education Slide #36