Global warming/Climate change

Global warming

Text with information about where different greenhouse gases come from (written for children).

http://www.sowieso.de/portal/lexikon/105/105/E

Greenhouse gases

Text written for children, with information about where different greenhouse gases come from.

http://www.sowieso.de/portal/lexikon/235/235/T

The greenhouse effect

On this site for children you will find a short text explaining the greenhouse effect.

•  Note that in the first sentence ein Gasschicht should be eine Gasschicht.

http://www.jolinchen.de/rd/679.php

Weather and climate

Site designed for children with a text about the weather, the climate and the greenhouse effect. Click on the numbers or on vor at the bottom of the page to get to the next part of the text. On page 1 you'll find a diagram showing the five different global climes. On page 3 you are given a diagram in which the greenhouse effect is explained. Click on the green words in the text (not on the whole green paragraphs or headings) to be led to a part of a lexicon on this site in which the words are explained.

http://www.najuversum.de/index.php?action=page&pageid=6365

Weather and climate

Site designed for children with a lot of information about the weather and climate. In the category Wettermacher, for example, in the subcategory Mensch you are given a text about people's influence on the environment (the greenhouse effect). Click on Klimakonferenz in the category Wettermacher for a text about the World Climate Conference, the global reduction of greenhouse gases and the Kyoto Protocol. Click on ABC under Klicks on the left-hand side for a list of terms from the field of weather and climate and short texts in German in which the terms are explained. Most of the texts on this site can be listened to (play icon). You find videos as well.

http://www.kindernetz.de/infonetz/thema/klima/-/id=32560/pmlvh

Weather lexicon

Weather lexicon on this site designed for children. Click on weiter to read the whole entry.

http://kinder.wetter.com/wetter_lexikon.php?&kid=13&letter=a