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What makes a gas, a greenhouse gas? part of CLEAN Collection

Students act out 4 different molecules (nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and water vapor) to discover which ones are greenhouse gases and which ones are not.
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Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Meteorology:Atmospheric structure and composition, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Greenhouse effect, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes
Resource Type: Activities, Lab Activity

Solar Convection part of CLEAN Collection

In this activity, students will use hot and cold water to see how fluids at different temperatures move around in convection currents.
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Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Oceanography, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Atmospheric and oceanic circulation, Solar radiation
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What's the Bigger Picture? Using the Power of Art to Teach Science part of CLEAN Collection

In this lesson, students combine art and science to interpret and illustrate graphical art. They first learn about artists who develop images based on climate graphs and then create their own.
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Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
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Hurricane Resilience Part 1: Hurricanes Affect Us part of CLEAN Collection

In this activity, students learn how people prepared for and then responded to a hurricane by analyzing news headlines about Hurricane Florence (2018). Then they analyze data about the amount of ...
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Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
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What is a watershed? part of CLEAN Collection

In this activity students build a model of a watershed to learn where water goes when it rains. Students then make predictions and draw what they observe.
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Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Geoscience:Hydrology, Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climatology , Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
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Examining Sea Level Rise and Differential Shoreline Response part of CLEAN Collection

In this activity, students make and manipulate physical shoreline models to discover the features of resilient shorelines and to critically evaluate the impacts of rising seas. Students will use ...
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Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Sea Level Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity

Major Storms and Community Resilience part of CLEAN Collection

This is Unit 1 of a larger module and centers on the fundamental concepts of major storms and community resilience. In this unit, students acquire a vocabulary related to storm systems and risk, ...
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Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather
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Drought: Identifying Impacts and Evaluating Solutions part of CLEAN Collection

In this set of activities, students learn about impacts of drought through news videos of communities facing serious water shortages, analyze drought data and models, and research and evaluate ...
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Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Global change modeling, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Global change modeling
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Elementary GLOBE Climate Module part of CLEAN Collection

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 environments, and describe how ...
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Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Sea Level Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
Resource Type: Activities, Curriculum Description

Elementary GLOBE Earth Systems Module part of CLEAN Collection

Several activities that introduce students to the concepts of earth as a series of systems that are all connected. All of the activities reinforce the idea that water, air, soil, and living things ...
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Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
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