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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Bringing Global Climate Change Into the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Making Climate Change Relatable to Teens: The goal of my Earth and Environmental Science course is to provide students with the scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of the...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Evolution, Plate Tectonics, and Climate Change Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Summarizes the key points about three theories in Earth Science: the theory of evolution, the theory of plate tectonics, and the theory of climate change due to...
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Exploring Climate Change With Gis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to observe climate change with these interactive lessons.
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Other

New England Aquarium: Climate Change and the Oceans

For Students 9th - 10th
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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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Little Ice Age: Dark Skies: Volcanic Contribution to Climate Change

For Teachers 5th - 9th
In this activity, students learn how volcanic eruptions affect global climate.
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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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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Tracking Global Climate Change: Microfossil Record of Planetary Heat Pump

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan integrates physics, biology, and geology to understand planetary processes that contribute to climate change through time. It includes an activity that demonstrates heat transfer and it uses figures and charts to...
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Climate Literacy

Clean: A Global Issue: The Impacts of Climate Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is instructional activity five of a 9-instructional activity module. Activity explores the effects of climate change on different parts of the Earth system and on human well-being: polar regions, coral reefs, disease vectors,...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Prehistoric Climate Change and Why It Matters Today

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
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Community Learning Network

Community Learning Network: Global Warming/climate Change Theme Page

For Students 9th - 10th
A large collection of web resources on the topics of global warming and climate change. Some links may be broken, as the site is no longer actively maintained.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Climate Change on the Antarctic Peninsula

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this cross-curriculum inquiry, students use a cooperative approach to investigate the effect of climate change on the ecosystem of the Antarctic Peninsula. The activity stresses the importance of evidence in the formulation of...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Earth Exploration Toolbox: Cool Cores Capture Climate Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of activities which provide background for educators and students on the role of sediment cores in revealing the climate change history of Earth.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: The Very, Very Simple Climate Model Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through a simple online model, students learn about the relationship between average global temperature and carbon dioxide emissions while predicting temperature change over the 21st Century.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Quantitative Reasoning and Analytical Writing in a Global Climate Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson learners use Microsoft Excel to manipulate and statistically analyze large climate databases of precipitation., temperature, stream discharge, tree ring data, ice core data, and ENSO to determine climate relationships and...
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Globe

The Globe Program: Climate Module

For Teachers K - 1st
Climate change affects the whole world, from the tropics to the poles. Through learning activities, students learn how weather over a long period of time describes climate, explore how sea level rise can affect coastal communities and...
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University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: A Climate of Extremes

For Students 9th - 10th
Higher temperatures are only part of the climate-change forecast. Are current extreme weather events a sign that warming is already here? What do climate models forecast for weather around the globe? Why is it so hard to predict the...