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What makes a greenhouse gas a greenhouse gas? part of CLEAN Collection
This activity utilizes a PhET greenhouse gas simulation to explore the interaction of different atmospheric gases with different types of radiation.Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16), High School (9-12)
Hands-on Greenhouse Gas Molecule Models part of CLEAN Collection
This short Youtube video shows a visual model of greenhouse gases using tennis balls, explaining why carbon dioxide absorbs more heat energy than oxygen or nitrogen.Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), Intermediate (3-5)
Greenhouse Effect Video - Scott Denning part of CLEAN Collection
In this short video, atmospheric scientist Scott Denning gives a candid and entertaining explanation of how greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere warm our planet.Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Informal, College Lower (13-14), Graduate/Professional, Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Regulating Greenhouse Gases part of CLEAN Collection
This video highlights the work of climate scientists in the Amazon who research the relationship between deforestation, construction of new dams, and increased amounts of greenhouse gases being ...Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
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.Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), Middle (6-8), Intermediate (3-5)
Parts per Million: A Little is a LOT (In the Greenhouse #18) part of CLEAN Collection
The current concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere is over 400 parts per million. This video explains what one part per million (ppm) is, and what impact a trace gas – or any ...Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Greenhouse Gases: A Closer Look part of CLEAN Collection
This lesson covers different aspects of the major greenhouse gases - water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxides and CFCs - including some of the ways in which human activities are affecting ...Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), College Upper (15-16)
Greenhouse Gas Molecules part of CLEAN Collection
This is an interactive table with a comprehensive list of 29 greenhouse gases, their molecular structures, a chart showing a time series of their atmospheric concentrations (at several sampling ...Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Technologies that Reduce Greenhouse Gases part of CLEAN Collection
This interactive visualization provides information in text, graphic, and video format about renewable energy technologies. Resource in the Student's Guide to Global Climate Change, part of EPA ...Grade Level: High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator part of CLEAN Collection
This straightforward calculator provides conversions from one unit of energy to the equivalent amount of CO2 emission expected from using that amount.Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), College Upper (15-16), Middle (6-8)