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Debating the Grid Example part of CLEAN Collection

Students research electricity, its sources, how energy grids function, how to make grids most efficient, and how to bring different types of energy generation together to diversify grids. Students ...
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Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Energy, Energy:Energy Infrastructure, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Anthropogenic causes
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Curriculum Description

Through Tribal Eyes: Change on the Menominee Nation part of CLEAN Collection

In this video, members of the Menominee nation discuss their experiences with climate change.
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Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Habitats, Restoration/Reclamation, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Ecosystems:Habitats:Invasive species, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Biodiversity, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Ecosystems:Ecology, Environmental Science, American Studies, Biology:Plant Biology, Environmental Science:Forest Resources:Deforestation, Environmental Science:Forest Resources, Air Quality:Acid Rain, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Anthropology, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water , Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Recent climate data, Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water supply/water resource evaluation, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Recent climate data, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water quality/chemistry , Biology:Ecology:Abiotic Relations, Biology:Ecology, Ecology:Habitats, Habitats:Freshwater, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Air quality, Air quality:Acid Rain, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Orbital patterns, Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, History and evolution of Earth's climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Hydrologic cycle, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Air Quality, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:History and evolution of Earth's climate, Environmental Science:Sustainability
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Audio/Visual:Animations/Video, Activities:Classroom Activity:Studio Teaching

What is the Future of Earth's Climate? part of CLEAN Collection

This is a series of 6 guided-inquiry activities that examine data and models that climate scientists use to attempt to answer the question of Earth's future climate.
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Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Atmospheric structure and composition
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity

Seasonal Change on Land and Water part of CLEAN Collection

In this worksheet-based activity, students review global visualizations of incoming sunlight and surface temperature and discuss seasonal change. Students use the visualizations to support inquiry on ...
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Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climatology :Global energy balance, Geoscience:Hydrology, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Regional climates, Geoscience:Oceanography, Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Solar radiation, Orbital patterns
Resource Type: Activities, Classroom Activity

Earth Science Modules from the Concord Consortium part of SERC Web Resource Collection

These free online curriculum lessons were developed for five days of classroom instruction and include one or more Earth systems models plus assessment items. Topics include plate tectonics, ...
Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Human Population, Energy, Air Quality, Water Quality and Quantity, Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Earthquakes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Air quality, Environmental Science, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Course Module

Tropical storms part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This short activity uses GIS to explore hurricane track information to understand factors that encourage the formation of hurricanes. This site includes all materials needed for an instructor to ...
Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Coastal Hazards, Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather:Hurricanes, Environmental Science, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Hazards, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Computer Applications, Audio/Visual

Climate Status Investigations: CO2 and Mass part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This activity, designed for grades 5-8, poses the question, does CO2 have mass? In this activity, students will use baking soda and vinegar to produce CO2 and trap it in a balloon. After puncturing ...
Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Atmospheric gases
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity

Climate Status Investigations (CSI) part of SERC Web Resource Collection

The Keystone Center's curriculum website has over 65 lessons developed to introduce middle and high school teachers and their students to the topic of climate change and to provide new ways of ...
Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climatology , Geoscience
Resource Type: Activities, Classroom Activity

Climate Change: Connections and Solutions, Grades 9-12 part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This two-week curriculum unit for grades 9-12 encourages students to think critically about climate change and to collaborate to devise solutions. Students learn about climate change within a systems ...
Subject: Atmospheric Science: Education, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science
Resource Type: Activities:Project, Activities, Classroom Activity

The Melting of the Grinnell Glacier, Glacier National Park part of SERC Web Resource Collection

In this activity, students investigate the retreat of Grinnel Glacier in Glacier National Park, Montana. Using a map, aerial photos, and temperature data, they will estimate and graph its rate of ...
Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity