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Brock University: Photographic History of the Illecillewaet Glacier

For Students 9th - 10th
The photographs of Illecillewaet Glacier are shown here spanning from 1887 to 2002. They show evidence of the shrinking of this glacier by more than one kilometre over this time period.
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Energy Star: Energy Star Kids

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Government sponsored resource helps individuals protect the environment through superior energy efficiency. Topics examined are climate change, global warming, and energy. The resource consists of games and activities, lesson plans,...
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Tour of Park Geology: Glaciers and Glacial Landforms

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate glaciers past and present through this website that explores glaciers found in the National Park Service.
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Digital Library for Earth System Education: Changing Sea Level

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A suite of lessons lead inquiry-based exploration of melting sea ice and evidence that it is affecting sea level, namely glacial evidence, geologic evidence, fossil evidence, and isotopic evidence.
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Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Physics & Chemistry: Ozone

For Students 9th - 10th
Article explaining what ozone is, how it forms in the atmosphere, and the environmental problems it creates. (Published: August 22, 2008)
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PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: The Global Warming Debate

For Students 9th - 10th
From the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer this site is regularly updated with the most recent news on global warming. Also offers links to related topics.
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PBS

Pbs: Are the World's Weather and Climate Changing?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What's going on with our weather? Learn about it in this lesson plan that examines the climate and weather patterns in the world today. It has a weather quiz and guidelines that help the students understand weather changes occurring...
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Northern Arizona University

Colorado Plateau: Mesa Verde, Colorado

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Anasazi culture at Mesa Verde in the Four Corners area. These were the famous cliff dwellers. Find out about the geology of the area that produced the cliffs.
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PBS

Pbs: Scientific American Frontiers: Little Ice Age

For Students 9th - 10th
Did you know there was a global 'Little Ice Age' around the time Columbus sailed across the Atlantic? Climatologists have documented changes in temperature and how countries and people around the world were affected. What caused the LIA?...
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The Field Museum

Field Museum: Exhibits: Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the true powers of Mother Nature through this vivid collection of research, which delves into the causes of natural disasters and the impacts on those affected.
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Primer on Climate Change and Human Health [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive guide to climate change in Canada. This site offers both a national look and then looks at the implications of climate change on specific regions and provinces.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center: Arctic: A Friend Acting Strangely

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the devastating effects of climate change on an Inuit Arctic community in northern Canada. The melting sea ice caused by global warning has started a chain reaction of many changes in the culture and survivability in the Arctic...
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Interactions Within Earth's Atmospheres

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using computational models, students investigate the interaction between greenhouse gases, solar radiation, and the Earth's surface for the impact on climate. They then look at data on atmospheric carbon dioxide to analyze changes in...
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Sources, Sinks, and Feedbacks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will learn about how the Earth's carbon cycle works, as they examine the relationship between levels of carbon dioxide and water vapor in the atmosphere and the temperature of the ocean's surface. Includes online student...
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BBC

Bbc News: An Animated Journey Through the Earth's Climate History

For Students 9th - 10th
A narrated journey through the last 800,000 years of the Earth's climate, accompanied by images and graphs. A text-only version is also available. (Published 3 Dec. 2009)
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NOAA

Noaa: The Ocean's Role in Weather and Climate

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of resources - interactive activities and teacher tutorials - on the impact the ocean has on weather and climate.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Climate Science Digital Resources

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A digital collection of high-quality lesson resources that address climate and energy related topics.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Do Scientists Agree About the Causes of Climate Change?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students follow a four-step process to debunk the myth regarding scientific consensus on climate change.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Lab 6: Future of the Cryosphere

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that investigates climate and the cryosphere. In this lab, students predict what Earth's climate may be like in the future based on models. They also predict how warming temperature and melting...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Lab 6: Drying of the American West

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that explores droughts. This experiment is presented as a case study for the drought conditions in the Colorado River. With this case study, students study the decrease of fresh water...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: The Heat Is On: Understanding Local Climate Change

For Teachers 11th - 12th
A lesson unit where students analyze long-term weather data for Phoenix to look for changes that have occurred over time. They look at factors that would cause climate warming, including greenhouse gases and other phenomena. They then...
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Other

Koshland Science Museum: Earth Lab: Degrees of Change

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information on all of the aspects of global warming, climate change, and the future of the earth.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Air Pollution and Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Through this interactive module, students learn that the atmosphere is so much more than air, its complex role on Earth should be explored, and its quality carefully monitored and protected.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Water Pollution and Treatment

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about water management, treatment and purification- global issues that must be addressed to ensure a continued supply of safe water for the growing human population and for the organisms with which we share this planet.