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423 resources with the concept global warming

Student Version - Earth and Human Activity: A Changing Climate
21 Item

Student Version - Earth and Human Activity: A Changing Climate

9th - 12th
As residents of Earth, humans rely on the planet for the resources they need to survive. Explore the ways people interact with their environment and the impacts these interactions have on the planet with a collection of lessons, videos, interactives, presentations, and activities.
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Earth and Human Activity: A Changing Climate
21 Item

Earth and Human Activity: A Changing Climate

9th - 12th
As residents of Earth, humans rely on the planet for the resources they need to survive. Explore the ways people interact with their environment and the impacts these interactions have on the planet with a collection of lessons, videos, interactives, presentations, and activities.
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Climate Change Handouts & Reference

Climate Change

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Rising sea levels, strong storms, melting ice ... who or what is to blame? Scholars browse the website in preparation for a class discussion or debate about whether human activity is causing climate change. They gain a balanced...
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Burning Ice from the Ocean Floor Video

Burning Ice from the Ocean Floor

4 mins 9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Ice burns on the ocean floor as climate change continues. That's right ... ice burns! It turns out the burning is actually methane trapped in the crystalline structure of the ice. The video presentation is part of a larger series...
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Coral Reefs in Hot Water Activities & Project

Coral Reefs in Hot Water

9th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
Global warming is leaving coral reefs in hot water. What does that mean for their survival? Find out as scholars use authentic satellite data to explore the issue. Learners look for global trends in the data and research the effects the...
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Food, the Carbon Cycle and Global Warming Lesson Plan
2 In 2 Collections

Food, the Carbon Cycle and Global Warming

6th - 12th
As the world population increases, demands on the carbon cycle also increase. A well-designed lesson first explores the greenhouse effect and its impact on global warming. Further sections have pupils study the effect of greenhouse gases...
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The Heat is On: Cause and Effect and Climate Lesson Plan

The Heat is On: Cause and Effect and Climate

6th - 10th
CCSS: Adaptable
The higher the number of letters in the final word for the National Spelling Bee, the higher the number of people killed by venomous spiders. Obviously, those two facts correlate, but no causation exists. Scholars view data based on...
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What's the Deal With Fossil Fuels? Video

What's the Deal With Fossil Fuels?

4 mins 6th - 10th
CCSS: Adaptable
Plastic bags, laptops, and even toothpaste all contain petroleum. A lesson explains how to define fossil fuels, including petroleum, and the many uses for fossil fuels in our everyday lives. It also details why new sources need to...
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Atmospheric CO2 and Earth’s Temperature Video
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Atmospheric CO2 and Earth’s Temperature

4 mins 9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Is atmospheric carbon dioxide really to blame for global warming? Young environmentalists analyze historical carbon dioxide and temperature data during a multimedia activity from PBS's Weather and Climate series. High schoolers read...
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Earth’s Energy Budget Interactive

Earth’s Energy Budget

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Is Earth's energy flow a little off balance? Explore our energy budget using a click-through interactive. Scholars discover the many factors that move solar energy around the planet and why the system is no longer in equilibrium.
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97% of Climate Scientists Really Do Agree Video

97% of Climate Scientists Really Do Agree

7 mins 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Why do some people still question climate change? Discover the components of consensus with a video from a well-written science playlist. The narrator guides viewers through the process of reviewing climate publications, how exclusive...
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Coral Bleaching Video

Coral Bleaching

4 mins 9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
What is coral bleaching? Tackle a trendy topic with a narrated animation. Through a combination of video and illustration, the narrator introduces viewers to a coral reef, then goes inside a coral polyp to show its symbiotic relationship...
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Recycling Lesson Plan

Recycling

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
How often have you passed by a recycling container in your school? Scholars research the issue of recycling in the ever-changing global world. Using documentation and video evidence, they form their own opinions on recycling and how it...
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The Anthropocene: Human Impact on the Environment Interactive

The Anthropocene: Human Impact on the Environment

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Will human existence define an epoch? Many scientists think we are in a new epoch, the anthropocene, defined by humans and our impact on the environment. An online interactive demonstrates the immense impact humans have had on every part...
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From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying Video

From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying

12 mins 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Life before the dinosaurs was pretty amazing—and very fragile! Discover what Earth was like for Cambrian creatures, from the smallest ocean-dwellers to the first land animals. A video from an extensive biology playlist explores how early...
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The Last Time the Globe Warmed Video

The Last Time the Globe Warmed

11 mins 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Global warming ... greenhouse gases ... climate change ... sounds familiar, right? What about palm trees in Wyoming, or swimming in the sea near Antarctica? Science scholars discover the unbearable conditions Earth experienced during its...
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What Is the "Greenhouse Effect"? Lab Resource

What Is the "Greenhouse Effect"?

6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Enough talk about the Greenhouse Effect—let's actually look at it! Junior climatologists engage in a simple thermodynamics experiment on a cold winter's day to examine global warming. The activity simulates rising carbon dioxide levels...
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How Bacteria Make It Rain (with Kim Prather) Video

How Bacteria Make It Rain (with Kim Prather)

4 mins 9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Scientists question how the oceans and the atmosphere get along. An installment in a longer science series investigates this relationship and current research exploring the types of materials that oceans release into the atmosphere....
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What’s Really Warming the Earth? Video

What’s Really Warming the Earth?

6 mins 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
More carbon dioxide exists in the atmosphere than ever in human history. An informative video introduces the topic of global warming as part of a larger playlist. It looks at possible causes such as Earth's orbit, Earth's moving axis,...
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Climate Change is Boring Video

Climate Change is Boring

5 mins 9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
How can something so important be, well, boring? Explore the opinions of random citizens through a video by Veritasium. The narrator asks open-ended questions to interviewees about global warming, their personal efforts to reduce carbon...
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13 Misconceptions About Global Warming Video
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13 Misconceptions About Global Warming

7 mins 9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
With so much information floating around about global warming, how can we tell what's really going on? Examine the evidence through a video from Veritasium to sift through everything we hear. The narrator presents convincing data when...
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Why the Evolutionary Epic Matters: Crash Course Big History #203 Video

Why the Evolutionary Epic Matters: Crash Course Big History #203

12 mins 9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Imagine a world where the only animals roaming the earth are domesticated. One day, we might not have to imagine the scenario of no wild animals—and that day approaches faster than predicted. A video explains the evolution from...
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ETS2B - Influence of Science, Engineering and Technology on Society and the Natural World Video

ETS2B - Influence of Science, Engineering and Technology on Society and the Natural World

5 mins K - 12th
Science, engineering, and technology have an impact on our natural world. As the world population increases, the demands on natural resources also increase. Science, technology, and engineering work together to address these concerns...
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Looking Backwards, Looking Forward Lesson Plan

Looking Backwards, Looking Forward

6th - 8th
CCSS: Designed
How do scientists know what Earth's climate was like millions of years ago? Young environmental scholars discover how researchers used proxy data to determine the conditions present before written record. Grouped pupils gain experience...
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