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Teaching about the environment, sustainability, and climate change
The American Journal of Physics and The Physics Teacher joined together in 2023 to publish special collections on the physics of the environment, sustainability, and climate change. These special collections share tested ideas developed by your peers for teaching these challenging topics.
Read this collection’s papers published in the American Journal of Physics below and published in The Physics Teacher here. Articles previously published on this topic in The Physics Teacher can also be found here and in the American Journal of Physics here.
Guest Editors: Kyle Forinash, Roger Tobin, Barbara Whitten, Rich Wolfson

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Stefano Toffaletti; Marco Di Mauro; Massimiliano Malgieri; Tommaso Rosi; Eugenio Tufino; Pasquale Onorato; Stefano Oss
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A course on climate change and sustainable building design
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Claire Akiko Marrache-Kikuchi; Guillaume Roux; Jean-Marie Fischbach; Bertrand Pilette
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Teaching physics in the woods
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Frédéric Bouquet; Julien Bobroff; Lou-Andreas Etienne; Clara Vardon
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Improved spectral photometer for undergraduate observations of atmospheric infrared heat flux and greenhouse gas absorption bands
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Gerard T. Blanchard; Bryce A. Bowlsbey; James R. Dyess; Ryan D. Rumsey; Justin B. Woodring
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Semiquantitative reasoning can help students track energy and understand conservation: Examples and results from a course on sustainable energy
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R. G. Tobin
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Essential climate change conversations for introductory physics courses
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Abigail R. Daane; Jesse Noffsinger
EDITORIAL
Kyle Forinash; Roger Tobin; Barbara Whitten; Richard Wolfson; Beth Parks
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Effects of greenhouse gases on Earth, Venus, and Mars: Beyond the one-blanket model
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Philip C. Nelson
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Implementing a course-based authentic learning experience with upper- and lower-division physics classes
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Mikkel Herholdt Jensen; Eliza J. Morris; M. W. Ray
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Nadir Jeevanjee
BOOK REVIEWS
NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS
Kyle Forinash; Roger Tobin; Barbara Whitten; Richard Wolfson; Beth Parks