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Nature Canada: Connect With Nature: Plant Watch
PlantWatch is a Canadian program that uses volunteers to record data about a variety of plant species in each province and territory, and then submit their observations. Monitoring plants provides valuable information about the health of...
NASA
Nasa: Climate Kids: The Climate Time Machine
Check out this interactive timeline which illustrates how earth's climate has changed throughout history.
NASA
Nasa: Climate Kids: What Is the Greenhouse Effect
Find out how Earth's atmosphere acts like a greenhouse, and the effect this has on ecosystems.
NASA
Nasa: Climate Kids: Climate Change Evidence
Get right to the point when it comes to the evidence for climate change with this illustrated informational piece.
NASA
Nasa: Climate Kids: Gallery of Oceans
A collection of images showing Earth's oceans and how they are affected by climate change.
NASA
Nasa: Climate Kids: Gallery of Fresh Water
A collection of images showing both water shortage conditions and water conservation efforts.
NASA
Nasa: Climate Kids: What Is the Big Deal With Carbon?
An illustrated article highlighting the science behind carbon and fossil fuels. Diagrams and graphs help with understanding.
NASA
Nasa: Climate Kids: Gallery of Carbon's Travels
A collection of images which shows the effects of too much carbon in our atmosphere There are also some promising carbon-reducing images as well.
NASA
Nasa: Climate Kids: Birds and Climate Change
Find out how climate change is affecting a particular species of North American bird, and what NASA is doing to help.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Prehistoric Climate Change and Why It Matters Today
A slideshow will introduce the process of climate change that the earth has experienced since the beginning of time. Discover "leaf margin analysis" which scientists use while studying fossils to determine the temperatures they were...
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Repeat Photography Project
The Repeat Photography Project pairs historic images with contemporary photos thus documenting glacial decline through photography while communicating the effects of global warming.
Smithsonian Institution
Tween Tribune: Scientists Say Reindeer May Be Shrinking Due to Warming
Climate change is impacting the population of reindeer as well as their physical size according to recent studies.
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: Energy at the Earth's Poles
A resource to help understand how the amount of energy at the Earth's poles affects polar conditions.
NASA
Climate Kids: Greenhouse Effect
Fun website for kids to learn about earth science. Students read about greenhouse gasses and the effect on the environment.
NASA
Climate Kids: Climate Change Trivia
Fun website for kids on earth science presents trivia game in which students can test their knowledge on what they have learned about climate.
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Niwa: Common Climate and Weather Terms
A great place to find a definition to terms used to describe climate change and meteorology. This site contains a glossary of common terms for both climate and weather.
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Niwa: Climate for Students: Uv and Ozone
A website dedicated to answering questions about UV, climate, and the ozone layer. On this page, students can find answers to questions like: What is the state of the ozone layer? And, what factors affect the ozone layer?
OpenStax
Open Stax: New Century, Old Disputes
As the United States entered the twenty-first century, old disputes continued to rear their heads. Some revolved around what it meant to be American and the rights to full citizenship. Others arose from religious conservatism and the...
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New England Aquarium: Climate Change and the Oceans
A series of videos accompanied by student activity sheets explore the impact of climate change on the ocean and the animals that live in and around it: sea turtles, jellies, whales, shore birds, lobsters, and coral.
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Brookings Institution: Ending Oil Dependence: Protecting National Security
A critique of America's dependency on oil, authored by Brookings scholar David Sandalow, with a six-part recommendation for solving the problem. Includes downloadable position paper and fact sheet. (Published Feb. 28, 2007)
The Environmental Literacy Council
Environmental Literacy Council: Temperature
The difference between heat and temperature is explained, followed by a discussion of temperature and its relation to global climate change. Gallileo Galilee, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Anders Celsius, and Carl Linnaeus are mentioned in...
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Renewable Energy
Find out about efforts to promote the use of renewable energy sources by homeowners and businesses. This was a project where homeowners could submit data about what they were doing to use renewable energy sources. The site is no longer...
National Wildlife Federation
National Wildlife Federation: Wild Places: Arctic
An overview of the ecological state of arctic environments, plant, and animals.
Read Works
Read Works: The Vortex
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Jamal who learns about how global warming can create colder weather in the winter because of the polar vortex. A question sheet is available to help students build...