I thought the lessons and videos in this section were very valuable, great resources in one location. The content in itself will be very valuable to share with my biology students.
When covering the H2O, N, C, and other cycles, this would be the opportunity to cover climate change. We presently participate with Appalachian Env. Lab in Frostburg, MD (UMCES) to collect and analyze data to see how schools impact nitrates. In this we collect rain and runoff samples to see how incoming atmospheric nitrates compare to nitrates, terrestrial and atmospheric, running off our school grounds. Of course the burning of fossil fuels plays heavily in atmospheric nitrates.
I'm struggling with coming up with a MWEE to tie in climate change. I've thought of doing a field survey of tree species diversity and taking some core samples to "read the past" with respect to rainfall and use this as an opportunity to discuss how the geographic range of plant and animal species are changing. How hard would it be to find pollen grains in pond sediments for more proxy discussions? I'm taking this course so I can come up with some MWEE ideas.