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Interactive
National Academy of Sciences

What is the Greenhouse Effect?

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
The greenhouse effect warms up earth enough so it can support life, but if it heats up too much, life won't be able to survive. An interactive presentation covers the greenhouse effect, the carbon cycle, climate forcing, and climate...
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Interactive
Royal Society of Chemistry

Compounds Ending in 'ate'

For Students 6th - 12th
Tackle polyatomic ions with Sudoku-like games! Nomenclature novices practice identifying the names and constituents of carbonate compounds with a series of puzzles. Scholars can use the resource online or as a worksheet, thanks to the...
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Teach Engineering

Global Climate Change

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The greenhouse effect and its relationship to global warming is the focus of an activity that asks class member to consider the effects of climate change on weather. Pupils work with their families to determine their carbon...
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Instructional Video2:03
Be Smart

Every Breath You Take Is Connected

For Students 6th - 12th
Take a deep breath before you watch this video. Viewers learn about how every breath is connected due to the cycling of carbon dioxide and oxygen. A split-screen video allows viewers to consider both cycles at once.
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Activity
Colorado State University

What Makes a Gas, a Greenhouse Gas?—The Carbon Dioxide Dance

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Investigate a heated topic in environmental science. Scholars team up to play the parts of gas molecules in the atmosphere. As the teacher moves about, acting as the electromagnetic wave, learners react as their molecules would to the...
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Instructional Video10:59
PBS

How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice)

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Volcanoes contributing to freezing seems counterintuitive, but it's true. The freezing and thawing of the earth has happened multiple times in the planet's history. Scholars learn how the carbon cycle contributed to Earth's temperature...
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American Chemical Society

Fizz Bizz

For Students K - 5th
Bubbles seem to come from nowhere. Pupils investigate the formation of carbon dioxide bubbles in sodas. By placing different objects, including candies, in the soda, learners observe the formation of tiny bubbles on the surface of the...
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American Chemical Society

Mentos and Diet Coke!

For Students K - 5th
Let the bubbles tell the story. Using a hands-on lesson, budding scientists learn how carbon dioxide in soda interacts with objects placed in the soda. The lesson explains how the gas adheres to the surface of the objects based on the...
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British Council

Family Footprint

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Working in small groups, pupils design a questionnaire to survey classmates about their carbon footprints. Then, after discussing the activity with group members, they share with the class an interesting fact they learned. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Carbon Dating

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this carbon dating worksheet, students read about carbon dating and the estimate the age of a given fossil. This one-page worksheet contains one multi-step problem.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Accuracy of Carbon 14 Dating I

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Here is an activity that is intended to highlight a very important issue about precision in reporting and understanding statements in a realistic scientific context. Discuss different ways of reporting the half life of Carbon 14...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

CO2 and Air Pollution

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders observe and test for the presence of carbon dioxide gas. They compare concentrations of carbon dioxide gas and conclude high concentrations of carbon dioxide gas are unhealthy for human beings.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Keeping safe from carbon monoxide

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners research tips on what to do to avoid problems or to recognize dangers if they exist. Find local gas companies and fire department officials who have background in this. Then plan an article telling your readers what they could...
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Curated OER

Bringing The Greenhouse Effect Down To Earth (CO2 experiment)

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students compare 4 different form of carbon dioxide and discuss the role that carbon dioxide has in the Greenhouse Effect. They then understand that the Greenhouse Effect is a naturally occurring event.
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Curated OER

Calculating Your Foodometer

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explore environmental issues by completing a food production class activity. In this carbon footprint lesson, students discuss the types of foods they eat, where they come from and what types of methods are used to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Marine Habitats of Galveston Island

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Four lessons introduce elementary ecologists to salt marsh and sandy beach habitats. In the first instructional activity, they place shells and other materials in vinegar to determine if they contain calcium carbonate. In the second...
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Curated OER

Stoichiometry (gases and masses)

For Teachers 10th - 11th
In this chemistry worksheet, students identify how many liters of oxygen can be consumed to form carbon dioxide. Then they identify how many liters of sulfur dioxide are produced if the gas is at STP.
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PPT
Curated OER

Organic and Biological Compounds

For Teachers 10th
Carbon as a building block for organic compounds is demonstrated by diagrams and facts for its bonding style.  Saturated and unstaturated hydrocarbons are detailed and facts about biological compounds such as proteins, nucleic...
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PPT
Curated OER

Radiation and Controlling Heat Flow

For Teachers 7th - 9th
The carbon dioxide in our atmosphere and its effect on how heat is contained is summarized here. The flow of heat is explained with details about insulation and conduction. There are diagrams of heat circulation on a global level and...
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PPT
Curated OER

Ecology

For Teachers 9th - 12th
For use early in the year with your ecology class, this collection of slides introduces viewers to cycles in nature and relationships between organisms. There is a food web diagram, but the presentation is incomplete without any diagrams...
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Lesson Plan
National Wildlife Federation

Why All The Wiggling on the Way Up?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Some of the CO2 emitted by burning fossil fuels is removed from the atmosphere by natural sinks, such as the ocean. The fifth engaging instructional activity in the series of 21 examines the CO2 data from three very different locations....
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Instructional Video3:27
Fuse School

Testing for Hydrogen, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, Ammonia, and Chlorine

For Students 9th - 12th
How can a chemist tell what gas a chemical reaction produced? Part two of a ten-part series prompts pupils to discover a number of simple tests that can reveal the identity of a gas. The video reinforces the concepts of solubility,...
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Lesson Plan
National Wildlife Federation

What is DBH?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
When measuring the circumference of a tree, does it matter how high you place the measuring tape? Most scholars have never considered this question, but scientists know that measurement techniques must be standardized. The 13th lesson in...
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Lesson Plan
Rainforest Alliance

Climate Educator Guide

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Climate change is a hot topic in the news. Class members examine carbon dioxide data to analyze trends of our atmospheric makeup over time. They also discuss climate and climate change, and determine how these changes are affecting life...

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