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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: High School (9-12), Middle (6-8), Intermediate (3-5)

Fossil Fuels: Air Pollution and the Greenhouse Effect part of CLEAN Collection

This lesson contains two activities to demonstrate two consequences of burning fossil fuels: air pollution and the greenhouse effect. In the first activity, students simulate the greenhouse effect ...
Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), Middle (6-8)

What Is the Greenhouse Effect? part of CLEAN Collection

Introductory video of greenhouse gases, how they are observed, and why they are important.
Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), Middle (6-8)

Meet the Greenhouse Gases part of CLEAN Collection

Interactive cards with gasses portrayed as super heroes are provided for Water Vapor, Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Ozone, Nitrous Oxide, and Chlorofluorocarbons. On one side of the card is an explanation ...
Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), Middle (6-8)

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)

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)

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)