Urban Heat Islands/ Microclimates

Wild London  – drunk bees https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6ekGkyYDbHg or at 30 minutes

Related Classroom Resources: Urban climates (Weather and Climate a Teachers’ Guide)

Microclimates (Weather and Climate a Teachers’ Guide), Heatwave impacts and adaptation

Polar Climates

Frozen Planet Polar seasons https://youtu.be/UPBEvLijbBE?si=Iu3ShzEg1pb_XnpL

Planet Earth 3 episode 6 at 5 minutes – Arctic climate

Related Classroom Resources: Polar climate (Weather and Climate a Teachers’ Guide), Climate Zones (Weather and Climate a Teachers’ Guide)

Tropical Climates (including rainforests)

Green Planet Episode 1 42.00 – 44.00 – Fungi spores supporting cloud formation and rain

Related Classroom Resources: Rainforest deforestation and the carbon and water cycles, Climate Zones (Weather and Climate a Teachers’ Guide)

Tropical Storms 

Planet Earth 3 episode 1 39 – 44 minutes: impact of storm surge on flamingos and people

Blue Planet 2 Episode 1 18:40 tropical cyclone formation 

Blue Planet 2 Episode 4 19 minutes storm development

Related classroom resources: Weather and Climate a Teachers’ Guide, Category 6 hurricanes?, Tropical Cyclone challenge game

El Nino/ ENSO

Blue Planet episode 1 12:00 impact of El Niño on hammerhead sharks

Blue Planet 2 episode 4 52:30 El Niño (briefly!)

Related Classroom Resources: El Nino Southern Oscillation

Sub-Tropical climates

Adaptation – ostrich chicks (bit tenuous but cute https://youtu.be/qtm5Yp3YU68?si=YV6gz1q4CoTmMd85) this is from Planet Earth 3 episode 3 3-13 minutes which goes on to have other adaptation mechanisms

Planet Earth 3 episode 3 – dry climates start – 2:30, 25:30-26:30 

Planet Earth 3 episode 3 – desertification impacts  13:30 – 20:00

Planet Earth Monsoon and cacti https://youtu.be/uXQHd0AO1Z0?si=avKtg1GcOINRUVJ4

Related Classroom Resources:  Hot deserts (Weather and Climate a Teachers’ Guide)

Global Atmospheric Circulation

Planet Earth https://youtu.be/Vf7_cVfIyZ0?si=EQVfl4bx9nqml3og

Related Classroom Resources: Atmospheric and Oceanic Circulation, An Introduction to the Atmospheric Circulation , other resources on MetLink

Ocean Circulation

Brinicle – Frozen Planet https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00l817b  or episode 5 (winter) 31:50

Rubber ducks –  Blue Planet 2 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1584344/Blue-Planet-story-7-000-rubber-ducks-lost-sea.html or Blue Planet 2, episode 4 20 minutes

Blue Planet episode 1 8:30 ocean currents/ circulation

Blue Planet 2 episode 1 39:50 ocean currents

Related Classroom Resources: Rubber Ducks: an Unexpected Journey, Atmospheric and Oceanic Circulation

Climate Change

Blue Planet 2 Episode 7 45 to end – ocean warming, coral bleaching, ocean acidification and sea level rise

Planet Earth 3 Episode 1– climate change, impact on gender of turtles, sea level rise & solutions 53-58 minutes

Planet Earth 3 – Episode 6 47 minutes climate change and evolution/ adaptation to extreme climate

Planet Earth 3 – Episode 7 36 minutes climate change, pests & diseases

Wild Isles Episode 5, sea grass for carbon sequestration/ climate mitigation 8 minutes

Green planet Episode1 44.10 – 51.00 – Land use change in tropical rainforests, land use change, monocultures but also restoration! (nice piece to tie up impact and restoration)

Green planet Episode 2 46.55 – 48.35 – Sea grass, carbon cycle, destruction by humans, but also restoration/ mitigation

Green Planet Episode 3 44.55 – 49.10 – Climate change and seasons. California snow melt reliance. Longer hotter summers, loss of water source.

Green Planet Episode 3 53.00- 57.10 – Wildfires, they are normal (some plants adapted to grow after them), climate changing nature-more extreme wildfires may cause disasters (behind the scenes clip)

Blue Planet 2 Episode 3 42 minutes – coral bleaching

Blue Planet 2 Episode 5 19 minutes sea otters farming kelp and sea grass as a carbon store

Frozen Planet 2, Episode 1 – 41.00 to 49.50 Summer Ice melt, arctic amplification and impact on polar bears

Frozen Planet 2, Episode 1 – Rain in the arctic (unseasonably wet weather), sea level and calving 52.42 -56.30

Frozen Planet 2, Episode 2 – Climate change and seal pups 13.50-20.00

Frozen Planet 2, Episode 2 – 34.45 – 40 Summer sea ice retreat and seasonality – walruses rely on seasons. Climate change impact 40.10- 40.45.

Frozen Planet 2, Episode 2 – 40.10 –  40:45 Nice images show sea ice retreat in past and projections to 2035.

Frozen Planet 2, Episode 2 – 40.10 –  49.00 Sea ice retreat and impact on polar bears

Climate Change the Facts (2019)

• 06:04 GHG explainer, blanket and thickness of blanket (NB a little out of date)
• 07:12 Impacts of Heatwaves and bats
• 15:10 Rainfall impacts
• 16:49 Climate impacts on the cryosphere
• 18:55 Sea level rise and land already lost
• 20:25 Sea level rise – thermal expansion and coral bleaching
• 23:30 History of climate change science and policy and the UK Climate Change Act
• 28:45 trees, how they absorb CO₂, deforestation (palm oil)
• 34:05 projections, challenges, climate justice
• 37:48 tipping points
• 39:40 tipping points (permafrost and methane)
• 41:45 Paris agreement and challenges
• 42:52 Renewable energy
• 45:20 Decarbonising transport, example of electric plane
• 45:35 Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
• 49:10 Individual action
• 42:15 Activism/ influence, Greta Thunberg

Related Classroom Resources: Weather and Climate Teachers’ Guide, Other RMetS Climate Change teaching resources

The Water Cycle

Blue Planet episode 1 5:30 (briefly) 

Related Classroom Resources: Water in the Atmosphere (Weather and Climate a Teachers’ Guide), the Changing Water Cycle,  the Water Cycle

The Seasons

Blue Planet Episode 1 28:30

Related Classroom Resources: the Seasons

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