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Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses greenhouse gases and how they affect climate change. [May 7, 2010]
Handout
NASA

Nasa Earth Observatory: Ocean and Climate Fact Sheet

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Earth's oceans and the effects that climate have had on the rising temperatures over the past one hundred years. Discover how the Earth's ocean and atmosphere are interlocked so that when one changes, the other is affected.
Article
Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: Antarctica Warms, Which Threatens Penguins

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the threat of climate change in the Antarctica to emperor penguins by affecting the ice sheets where penguin breeding grounds are located.
Website
University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: The Ultimate Heating Season

For Students 9th - 10th
This article talks discusses the climbing temperature and how it is affecting our lives here on earth. It examines El-Nina, global warming, and the greenhouse effect.
Website
Nature Canada

Nature Canada: Climate Change Is Here.

For Students 9th - 10th
A resource that looks at the causes and effects of climate change on the world-at-large. Find out how climate change affects animals like birds and the polar bear. The site also offers strategies for how we can reduce global warming...
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NASA

Nasa: Climate Time Machine

For Students 9th - 10th
Travel through time and explore how the changing climate has affected sea ice, sea level, carbon dioxide levels, and global temperatures. Also, decide whether or not you would be affected if the sea level rose due to warmer temperatures...
Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Greenhouse S'mores

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about climate change as they investigate how different materials are affected by a greenhouse effect. The instructional activity and accompanying PowerPoint can both be downloaded.
Unit Plan
Other

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.
Unit Plan
Other

Lehigh University: Climate Change

For Teachers 6th - 8th
An inquiry-based science unit for middle school students centered on weather and climate. The lessons integrate technology and lab activities while teaching about Earth system energy balance, greenhouse gases, paleoclimatology, and how...
Lesson Plan
Climate Literacy

Clean: Climate Change and Ecosystems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students research the inter-dependencies among plants and animals in an ecosystem and explore how climate change affects those relationships and the ecosystem as a whole.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: A Subsistence Culture Impacted by Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
This short video explains how warmer temperatures in the Arctic are transforming the ecosystem and affecting the Athabaskan people, threatening their way of life. [2:59]