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National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Nagt: The Carbon Cycle Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan with downloadable handouts and teacher instruction sheets where students learn about the carbon cycle by simulating it in a game format. There are two rounds of the game where they first look at the pre-Industrial...
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Carbon Cycle Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this interactive, regionally-relevant carbon cycle game, learners are challenged to understand the role of carbon in global climate change. They imagine that they are carbon molecules and travel via different processes through carbon...
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Carbon Cycle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity from NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory introduces students to the current scientific understanding of the greenhouse effect and the carbon cycle. The activity leads them through several interactive tasks investigating...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Carbon Cycle Web Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will explore a web game that identifies sources of carbon and the changes it goes through as it travels the carbon cycle.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Project Learn: Where in the World Is Carbon Dioxide?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson on greenhouse gas, students conduct experiments to detect and collect carbon dioxide, then use titration to determine how much carbon dioxide is present in an indicator solution.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Understanding Carbon Storage in Forests

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan helps students learn about forest biomass and its role in carbon storage. Students will compare field-collected data with results produced by a forest biomass model to understand the process and challenges scientists...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Biorecycling: Using Nature to Make Resources From Waste

For Teachers 5th - 8th
By studying key processes in the carbon cycle, such as photosynthesis, composting, and anaerobic digestion, students learn how nature and engineers biorecycle carbon.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Carbon Dioxide Sources and Sinks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lab activity, students use a chemical indicator (bromothymol blue) to detect the presence of carbon dioxide in animal and plant respiration and in the burning of fossil fuels and its absence in the products of plant...
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Carbon Dioxide Fertilization of Marine Microalgae Cultures

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this experiment, students investigate the importance of carbon dioxide to the reproductive growth of a marine microalga, Dunalliela sp.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Climate Discovery Teacher's Guide: Investigating Climate Present

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plans on the following: Carbon cycle: Carbon Dioxide Sources and Sinks, Nitrogen Cycle: Traveling Nitrogen, Ocean and Atmosphere: Make Convection Currents, Energy Cycle: Albedo
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Mt. Pinatubo and the Atmosphere

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson explores the impact of volcanic eruptions on the atmosphere. Students will analyze three types of visual information: a graph of aerosol optical depth v. global temperature, a global map with temperature anomalies, and an ash...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Modeling Global Climate Change

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will gain an understanding of global climate change by exploring the role that energy plays in it. They will explore NetLogo models of climate and learn about cumulative effects.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Plants Worksheets, Quizzes and Games

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Think you know everything there is about plants and flowers? Test your knowledge with these interactive quizzes and games.
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Other

Nearpod: Photosynthesis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this instructional activity on exploring photosynthesis, students will explore photosynthesis by examining the reactants and products of this process.
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Other

Antarctic Geological Drilling: Environmental Literacy Framework Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An impressive collection of lessons on climate science and climate change. The entire book can be downloaded. As well, each lesson has its own page with some combination of background information, PowerPoints, images, maps, glossaries,...

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