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Greenhouse Effect Lab part of Teaching Activities
Krista Larsen, Carleton College
In this lab, students measure temperature changes inside soda bottles (one with CO2 added, the other with only air inside) as incandescent light is shined on them to model the Greenhouse Effect.

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
On the Cutting Edge Exemplary Collection This activity is part of the On the Cutting Edge Exemplary Teaching Activities collection.
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Downloading data and data manipulation part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
i gouirand, the UWI
The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate the use of Matlab commands for opening and processing climate data. The climate data is retrieved from https://iri.columbia.edu as a netcdf file. The main objective is ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Environmental Science
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Climate History from Deep Sea Sediments part of Earth Exploration Toolbook:Case Study: Climate History from Deep Sea Sediments
DATA: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Core Data. TOOL: Virtual Ocean. SUMMARY: Locate potential core, log, and seismic data to map the marine sediment biostratigraphy. Search for a specific planktonic foraminifera that prefers warmer ocean conditions.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Datasets and Tools:Datasets
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary, Passed Peer Review
CLEAN Selected This activity has been selected for inclusion in the CLEAN collection.
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Cool Cores Capture Climate Change part of Earth Exploration Toolbook:Cool Cores Capture Climate Change
DATA: ANDRILL Sediment Core Data. TOOL: Paleontological Stratigraphic Interval Construction and Analysis Tool (PSICAT). SUMMARY: Create graphic models of sediment cores based on data provided by ANDRILL scientists to demonstrate evidence of climate change over Earth's Geologic Time.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Datasets and Tools:Datasets, Tools
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Field Techniques , Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary, Passed Peer Review
CLEAN Selected This activity has been selected for inclusion in the CLEAN collection.
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Envisioning Climate Change Using a Global Climate Model part of Earth Exploration Toolbook:Envisioning Climate Change Using a Global Climate Model
DATA: NASA/GISS Model II Global Climate Model. TOOL: Educational Global Climate Modeling Suite (EdGCM). SUMMARY: Run climate modeling software to visualize how temperature and snow coverage might change over the next 100 years.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Computer Applications, Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary, Passed Peer Review
CLEAN Selected This activity has been selected for inclusion in the CLEAN collection.
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Lab 5: All About Air Pressure part of EarthLabs for Educators:Hurricanes
John McDaris, Carleton College
The lab activity described here was created by John McDaris of SERC for the EarthLabs project. Summary and Learning Objectives Students select a storm from the HURDAT database and create its track in the ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Physics:Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics:Gas Law, Chemistry:General Chemistry:Gas Laws
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Analyzing the Antarctic Ozone Hole part of Earth Exploration Toolbook:Analyzing the Antarctic Ozone Hole
LuAnn Dahlman, NOAA
DATA: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) Images. TOOLS: ImageJ, Spreadsheet. SUMMARY: Animate and explore 10 years of Southern Hemisphere ozone images. Then measure and graph the area of the ozone hole over time.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations, Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity, Computer Applications, Datasets and Tools:Tools
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Ozone depletion, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Atmospheric gases, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Atmospheric structure and composition, Geography:Geospatial, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Biogeochemical cycling
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Annotating Change in Satellite Images part of Earth Exploration Toolbook:Annotating Change in Satellite Images
LuAnn Dahlman, NOAA
DATA: Landsat Images. TOOL: ImageJ. SUMMARY: Examine time-series images that show landuse changes in China. Produce a map documenting how human activities have changed the coastline.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations
Subject: Geoscience:Geology, Geography:Geospatial, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review