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Glaciers Interactive Simulation
In this interactive simulation, students will learn about how certain conditions such as snowfall and temperature impact glaciers.
Subjects: Science, Physics, Earth and Space Sciences
Grades: 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Types: Interactive Media, Lesson Plan, Activity
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Temperature and Precipitation as Limiting Factors in Ecosystems
In this activity, students will read graphs to understand the influence of temperature and precipitation on different ecosystems and learn which of these factors limits growth the most.
Subjects: Science, Biology, Earth and Space Sciences
Grades: 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Types: Worksheet, Lesson Plan
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Changes Ahoof: Could Climate Change Affect Arctic Caribou?
In this lesson, students explore how climate change is impacting populations of caribou in the Arctic.
Subjects: Science, Biology
Grades: 6th, 7th, 8th
Types: Lesson Plan, Activity, Game
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Amazing Albedo
In this fun experiment students use thermometers, white and black paper, and heat lamps to measure how differences in albedo affect temperatures.
Subjects: Science, Social Studies, Physics, Earth and Space Sciences, Geography
Grades: 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th
Type: Activity
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Tree Rings: Counting the Years of Global Warming
This video shows how dendrochronologists at the Big Sky Insitute collect core samples of living and dead trees and analyze the trees' rings to show how climate change impacts certain regions.
Subjects: Science, Biology, Earth and Space Sciences
Grades: 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Type: Video
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How Does Temperature Affect the Solubility of CO2 in Water?
This short investigation from Carbo Europe explores how temperature affects the solubility of carbon dioxide in water.
Subjects: Science, Social Studies, Chemistry, Earth and Space Sciences, Geography
Grades: 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Type: Lesson Plan
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Uptake of Carbon Dioxide from Water by Plants
This resource details two simple experiments/demonstrations that show the role of plants in mitigating the acidification caused when CO 2 is dissolved in water.
Subjects: Science, Chemistry, Biology, Earth and Space Sciences
Grades: 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th
Types: Experiment, Lesson Plan
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Combating Global Warming Mind Map
An attractive mind map that illustrates various human strategies for responding to climate change.
Subjects: Science, Social Studies, Earth and Space Sciences, Economics, Civics, Geography, Art, Justice, Health, Climate Action
Grades: 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Type: Artwork
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Melting Permafrost
This video is on changes happening to permafrost in the Arctic landscape, with Inuit people and Western scientists discussing both the causes of thawing and its impact on the ecosystem.
Subjects: Science, Social Studies, Biology, Earth and Space Sciences, Economics, Geography, Justice, Climate Action
Grades: 6th, 7th, 8th
Types: Video, Article
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Differences Between Climate and Weather
In this activity students collect weather data over several days or weeks, graph temperature data, and compare the temperature data collected with long-term climate averages from where they live.
Subjects: Science, Social Studies, Earth and Space Sciences, Geography
Grades: 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Types: Activity, Lesson Plan, Article
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Adélie Penguins
This short video discusses how our changing climate is affecting the population of Adélie penguins in the Antarctic.
Subjects: Science, Social Studies, Biology, Geography
Grades: 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Type: Video
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Views 56
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Earth's Seasons
A 2 minute video animation on the reason for the seasons.
Subjects: Science, Earth and Space Sciences
Grades: 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Type: Video
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The Thermohaline Circulation - The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt
This 1 minute NASA animation depicts thermohaline circulation in the ocean and how it relates to salinity and water density.
Subjects: Science, Earth and Space Sciences
Grades: 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Type: Video
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Arctic Climate Perspectives
This video, background essay, and discussion questions focus on impacts of climate change on the lives of Native Alaskans around Barrow, Alaska.
Subjects: Science, Social Studies, Earth and Space Sciences, History, Climate Action
Grades: 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Types: Video, Activity
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CO2 in the Ice Core Record
This is a 3-minute video segment from the 'Earth: The Operators' Manual' featuring climate expert Richard Alley.
Subjects: Science, Social Studies, Earth and Space Sciences, History
Grades: 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Type: Video