In this master's thesis, I describe the research based development of two activities for teaching about the greenhouse effect. In the introduction, I present the $\textit{Investigative Science Learning Environment}$ (ISLE) approach to teaching physics and the use of analogies in physics education. This is followed by an explanation of the physics underlying the greenhouse effect and an overview of commonly used analogies for this phenomenon. I then describe how we developed an ISLE-based activity designed to help students develop scientific reasoning skills within the context of the greenhouse effect. In this activity, students identify the steps of scientific reasoning in a text based on the historically important experiments conducted by Eunice Foote, the first scientist to propose that carbon dioxide can influence Earth's temperature. I~also describe the development of an analogy for the mechanism by which greenhouse gases influence Earth's temperature and the development of an activity designed to use this analogy productively in a physics lesson. In this activity, students identify analogous elements and relationships as well as the limitations of the analogy. We have also developed another analogy for the same phenomenon based on a simple experiment that students can perform in class. We tested the developed activities in a workshop with physics students, analysed their solutions and reflections, and based on these, we designed an improved version of the activities.
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