Young Shepherd’s School

San Nicolas II, Bacoor City, Cavite

Lesson Plan
Science 7
S.Y 2021-2022

March 29, 2022

I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson the students shall be able to:
a. Define and describe greenhouse effect; and
b. Identify different greenhouse gases.

II. Subject matter

Topic: What is Greenhouse Effect?

Reference: World of Science page
Materials: Textbook, PPT, pictures, video
Strategies: Discussion, recitation, inquiry

III. Procedure

Review: Minimizing the Effects of Natural Disasters

Motivation: The students will see a greenhouse model

Discussion:
 The greenhouse effect is a process that occurs when gases in Earth's atmosphere trap the
Sun's heat. This process makes Earth much warmer than it would be without an
atmosphere. The greenhouse effect is one of the things that makes Earth a comfortable
place to live.

How does the greenhouse effect work?

As you might expect from the name, the greenhouse effect works … like a greenhouse! A
greenhouse is a building with glass walls and a glass roof. Greenhouses are used to grow plants,
such as tomatoes and tropical flowers.

A greenhouse stays warm inside, even during the winter. In the daytime, sunlight shines into the
greenhouse and warms the plants and air inside. At nighttime, it's colder outside, but the
greenhouse stays pretty warm inside. That's because the glass walls of the greenhouse trap the
Sun's heat.
The greenhouse effect works much the same way on Earth. Gases in the atmosphere, such
as carbon dioxide, trap heat similar to the glass roof of a greenhouse. These heat-trapping gases
are called greenhouse gases.

During the day, the Sun shines through the atmosphere. Earth's surface warms up in the sunlight.
At night, Earth's surface cools, releasing heat back into the air. But some of the heat is trapped by
the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. That's what keeps our Earth a warm and cozy 58
degrees Fahrenheit (14 degrees Celsius), on average.

How are humans impacting the greenhouse effect?

Human activities are changing Earth's natural greenhouse effect. Burning fossil fuels like coal
and oil puts more carbon dioxide into our atmosphere.

NASA has observed increases in the amount of carbon dioxide and some other greenhouse gases
in our atmosphere. Too much of these greenhouse gases can cause Earth's atmosphere to trap
more and more heat. This causes Earth to warm up.

What reduces the greenhouse effect on Earth?

Just like a glass greenhouse, Earth's greenhouse is also full of plants! Plants can help to balance
the greenhouse effect on Earth. All plants — from giant trees to tiny phytoplankton in the ocean
— take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen.

The ocean also absorbs a lot of excess carbon dioxide in the air. Unfortunately, the increased
carbon dioxide in the ocean changes the water, making it more acidic. This is called ocean
acidification.

More acidic water can be harmful to many ocean creatures, such as certain shellfish and coral.
Warming oceans — from too many greenhouse gases in the atmosphere — can also be harmful
to these organisms. Warmer waters are a main cause of coral bleaching

IV. Activity
Does a greenhouse retain or release heat?

V. Generalization
 Greenhouse effect, a warming of Earth’s surface and troposphere (the lowest layer of
the atmosphere) caused by the presence of water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, and
certain other gases in the air. Of those gases, known as greenhouse gases, water vapour
has the largest effect.
 Carbon dioxide is the main contributor to climate change, especially through the burning
of fossil fuels.
  Methane is produced naturally when vegetation is burned, digested or rotted without
oxygen. Oil and gas production, cattle farming, waste dumps and rice farming release
large amounts of methane.
 Nitrous oxide, released by chemical fertilizers and burning fossil fuels, has a global
warming potential 310 times that of carbon dioxide.

VI. Assignment
No assigment

March 31, 2022

I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson the students shall be able to:
a. Define global warming;
b. Differentiate global warming from climate change; and
c. Identify the factors the influences global warming.

II. Subject matter

Topic: Greenhouse Effect that leads to Global Waring

Reference: World of Science page
Materials: Textbook, PPT, pictures, video
Strategies: Discussion, recitation, inquiry

III. Procedure
Review: What is Greenhouse Effect?
Motivation: The students will watch a short video about global warming

Discussion:
 Greenhouse gases help keep the Earth at a habitable temperature — until there is too
much of them.
 Behind the phenomena of global warming and climate change lies the increase in
greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. A greenhouse gas is any gaseous compound in the
atmosphere that is capable of absorbing infrared radiation, thereby trapping and holding
heat in the atmosphere. By increasing the heat in the atmosphere, greenhouse gases are
responsible for the greenhouse effect, which ultimately leads to global warming.
(The effects of global warming can been seen across the globe.)
 Global warming isn't a recent scientific concept. The basics of the phenomenon were
worked out well over a century ago by Swedish physicist and chemist Svante Arrhenius,
in 1896. His paper, published in the Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, was
the first to quantify the contribution of carbon dioxide to what scientists now call the
"greenhouse effect."

 The greenhouse effect occurs because the sun bombards Earth with enormous amounts of
radiation that strike Earth's atmosphere in the form of visible light, plus ultraviolet (UV),
infrared (IR) and other types of radiation that are invisible to the human eye. UV
radiation has a shorter wavelength and a higher energy level than visible light, while IR
radiation has a longer wavelength and a weaker energy level. About 30% of the radiation
that strikes Earth is reflected back out to space by clouds, ice and other reflective
surfaces. The remaining 70% is absorbed by the oceans, the land and the atmosphere,
according to NASA's Earth Observatory.

 As they heat up, the oceans, land and atmosphere release heat in the form of IR thermal
radiation, which passes out of the atmosphere and into space. It's this equilibrium of
incoming and outgoing radiation that makes the Earth habitable, with an average
temperature of about 59 degrees Fahrenheit (15 degrees Celsius), according to NASA.
Without this atmospheric equilibrium, Earth would be as cold and lifeless as its moon, or
as blazing hot as Venus. The moon, which has almost no atmosphere, is about minus 243
F (minus 153 C) on its dark side. Venus, on the other hand, has a very dense atmosphere
that traps solar radiation; the average temperature on Venus is about 864 F (462 C).

 The exchange of incoming and outgoing radiation that warms the Earth is often referred
to as the greenhouse effect because an agricultural greenhouse works in much the same
way. Incoming shortwave UV radiation easily passes through the glass walls of a
greenhouse and is absorbed by the plants and hard surfaces inside. Weaker, longwave IR
radiation, however, has difficulty passing through the glass walls and is thereby trapped
inside, warming the greenhouse.

IV. Activity
What happens to the air in the surrounding as warm air rises
V. Generalization
o The gases in the atmosphere that absorb radiation are known as "greenhouse
gases" (abbreviated as GHG) because they are largely responsible for the
greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect, in turn, is one of the leading causes of
global warming. The most significant greenhouse gases, according to
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), are: water vapor (H2O), carbon
dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O).
o "While oxygen (O2) is the second most abundant gas in our atmosphere, O2 does
not absorb thermal infrared radiation," Michael Daley, an associate professor of
environmental science at Lasell College in Massachusetts, told Live Science.
 o Global warming and the greenhouse gases that cause it occur naturally — without
them, Earth's average surface temperature would be a gelid zero degrees F (minus
18 C). But the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has skyrocketed to
detrimental levels in recent history.

VI. Assignment
Interactive quiz