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This activity includes an assessment, analysis, and action tool that can be used by classrooms to promote understanding of how the complex current issues of energy, pollution, supply and consumption are not just global but also local issues.
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Science and Technology
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Secondary,
Post-secondary
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Climate Change,
Pollution,
Energy
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CLEAN
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This visualization from NASA shows global rainfall patterns over a 22-year span. It incorporates data from a combination of remote-sensing and ground-based sources.
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Science and Technology
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Primary,
Secondary
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Climate Change
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Teachers' Domain
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A video from the Extreme Ice Survey in which Dr. Tad Pfeffer and photographer Jim Balog discuss the dynamics of the Columbia glacier's retreat in recent years through this time-lapse movie. Key point: glacier size is being reduced not just by glacial melting but due to a shift in glacial dynamics brought on by climate change.
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Science and Technology
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Secondary,
Post-secondary
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Climate Change,
Industrial and Agricultural Impacts
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CLEAN
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One of the most rewarding and challenging aspects of teaching an advanced placement environmental science course is finding enriching field and lab activities for your students. These labs have been developed by an experienced team of environmental science educators in partnership with the Environmental Literacy Council. Each lab has been the subject of an extensive peer review by a number of experienced environmental science educators. The content of this initial collection is varied, and APES teachers and students in different areas around the country should be able to complete each of the labs. These initial labs are not typical cookbook variety. They each contain an inquiry-based component. Over time, additional labs and tools for new and experienced teachers will be added to the collection.
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Science and Technology
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Secondary
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Climate Change
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Environmental Literacy Council
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This lesson focuses on a current issue in science in order to help students understand the process by which scientific knowledge is developed and refined. The goal of science is to advance human understanding of the natural world and that sometimes means changing long-held views. According to recent studies, many students think that changes come mainly through facts and improved observational and measuring technology. However, they often do not make the distinction that advancements or changes can come from both new observations and reinterpreting old observations.
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Science and Technology
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Secondary
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Climate Change
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Science Netlinks
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In this activity, students are split into groups to examine a specific band of the electromagnetic spectrum and the absorption spectra of seven atmospheric gases in that wavelength range. Using a jigsaw approach, the students regroup to have an expert on each band to examine the full spectrum, identify and rank greenhouse gases, and estimate Earth's temperature from satellite data.
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Science and Technology
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Post-secondary
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Earth Systems,
Climate Change
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CLEAN
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A production of Microdocs, a collection of short-attention span science videos, this is a good introduction to ocean acidification. It uses coral in vinegar as a demo of principal (listen how he emphasizes "in principle" about this concept).
Website has additional information and references.
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Science and Technology
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Primary,
Secondary
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Our Changing Ocean and Estuaries
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Research is showing carbon dioxide is not only causing global warming, it’s also causing sea water to become more acidic. As this ScienCentral video explains, the question of what this means for sea life is becoming a hot topic for everyone from scientists to filmmakers. There is a lot of pretty underwater video footage in this short video.
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Science and Technology
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Secondary
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Our Changing Ocean and Estuaries
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This groundbreaking NRDC documentary explores the startling phenomenon of ocean acidification, which may challenge marine life on a scale not seen for tens of millions of years. The film, featuring Sigourney Weaver, originally aired on Discovery Planet Green. A related curriculum kit is available at: http://www.nrdc.org/oceans/acidification/files/labkit.pdf
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Science and Technology
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Secondary
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Our Changing Ocean and Estuaries
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Selected resources provide three web-based activities to complement science lessons in an issue of Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle. The free, online magazine for Grades K-5 teachers explores the essential principles of climate literacy.
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Science and Technology
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Primary
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Water,
Climate Change
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Beyond Weather & The Water Cycle
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Interactive animation showing the changes occurring to an ice-shelf in relation to the temperature of the surrounding water.
The animation has been created on the basis of the most recent models created by the modelling team of the antarctic research called ANDRILL.
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Science and Technology
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Secondary
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Animals and Insects,
Climate Change,
Green Education
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ANDRILL
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A comprehensive treatment of the advanced methods of applied mathematics. Designed to strengthen the mathematical abilities of graduate students and train them to think on their own. Review of elementary methods in complex analysis, ordinary differential equations, and partial differential equations. Expansions around regular and irregular singular points; asymptotic evaluation of integrals, regular perturbations; WKB method; multiple scale method; boundary-layer techniques.
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Mathematics and Statistics
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Post-secondary
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Climate Change
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MIT OpenCourseWare
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The Horn of Africa has been experiencing exceptional droughts over the last decade. Using data collected from the NOAA POES satellite, changes in the severity of the drought conditions in the Horn and around the world are shown.
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Science and Technology
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Primary,
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Climate Change
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NOAA
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This lesson plan engages students in a real-life exploration of climate change as it is affected by greenhouse emissions from vehicles. The aim of this activity is for students to realize the impact of vehicle use in their family and to give students the opportunity to brainstorm viable alternatives to this use.
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Science and Technology
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Secondary
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Energy,
Climate Change
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CLEAN
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Worldchanging.com founder Alex Steffen argues that reducing humanity's ecological footprint is incredibly vital now, as the western consumer lifestyle spreads to developing countries. A quiz, thought provoking question, and links for further study are provided to create a lesson around the 10-minute video. Educators may use the platform to easily "Flip" or create their own lesson for use with their students of any age or level.
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Social Sciences
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Secondary,
Post-secondary
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Eco Art and Culture,
Green Building and Design,
Climate Change
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TED-Ed
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Explores the changing roles, ethical conflicts, and public perceptions of science and scientists in American society from World War II to the present. Studies specific historical episodes focusing on debates between scientists and the contextual factors influencing their opinions and decisions. Topics include the atomic bomb project, environmental controversies, the Challenger disaster, biomedical research, genetic engineering, (mis)use of human subjects, scientific misconduct and whistleblowing.
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Social Sciences
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Post-secondary
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Policy and Advocacy,
Industrial and Agricultural Impacts,
Sustainable Agriculture and Nutrition,
Energy,
Climate Change
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MIT OpenCourseWare
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This video production is a part of a four-panel report from the National Academies' America's Climate Choices project. The video maps out the realm of our accumulated knowledge regarding climate change and charts a path forward, urging that research on climate change enter a new era focused on the needs of decision makers.
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Science and Technology
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Secondary,
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Climate Change
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CLEAN
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A video that discusses the perspectives and insights necessary to report out about climate change. The video can be used to demonstrate how different perspectives impact different stakeholders and different levels, and that there is a need to have a clear, coordinated national response.
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Science and Technology
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Post-secondary
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Climate Change
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CLEAN
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The world is driven by fossil fuels like oil and gas. This has some negative repercussions: Rising energy prices due to decreasing deposits, dependence on unstable oil and gas producing regimes and global warming.
It becomes clear, that a revolution in the way how we produce and use energy is necessary. Central to this energy transition are new technologies, which produce energy from renewable sources such as wind or sun.
With Germany as an example, this clip shows what renewable energies are and how they work as well as what the concept of energy transition means.
The clip is part of the WissensWerte Project of the german non-profit organization /e-politik.de/ e.V.
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Science and Technology,
Social Sciences
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Secondary,
Post-secondary
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Individual Authors
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A team of middle school students in Baton Rouge research global warming and produce their take on the subject in this witty 30-second animated short
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Arts,
Humanities,
Science and Technology,
Social Sciences
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Secondary
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