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\nConnecting Ecosystems & Climate\n

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\nCollaborators sort a set of cards into biotic and abiotic categories. Then, as a class, they discuss their work and relate each of the abiotic components to climate change. Finally, they form a web of components by connecting those that...\n
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\nGlobal Warming\n

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\nFour slides attempt to explain global warming. The first mentions that Earth's climate has experienced major changes throughout history, but that scientists believe humans are now changing it. The second explains why this is...\n
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\nMapping Greenhouse Gas Emissions Where You Live\n

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\nAfter investigating the US Environmental Protection Agency's climate change website, your environmental studies students discuss greenhouse gas emissions. They use an online interactive tool to look at data from power production...\n
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\nClimate Change is Boring\n

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\nHow can something so important be, well, boring? Explore the opinions of random citizens through a video by Veritasium. The narrator asks open-ended questions to interviewees about global warming, their personal efforts to reduce...\n
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\nIs Portland, Oregon Experiencing Global Warming?\n

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\nStudents use data to determine if the climate in Portland has changed over the years.  In this weather lesson students complete line graphs and study long wave radiation. \n
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\nFaces of Climate Change\n

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\nYou know global warming is real when your squirrel feeder is full of popped corn instead of kernels! Activity two in a series of five allows learners to explore climate change through the eyes of another. After briefly analyzing their...\n
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\nAn Inconvenient Truth in the Classroom\n

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\nGlobal warming — what a hot topic! A thorough unit challenges learners to research, read, explore, and write about carbon, its role and increasing nature in our atmosphere, and how global warming is affecting lives and environments...\n
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\nWhy the Arctic Is Climate Change's Canary in the Coal Mine\n

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\nWhat happens in the Arctic doesn't always stay in the Arctic. Follow along with this short video as it investigates how small changes in the temperature of Arctic regions can have dramatic effects on the global climate through a series...\n
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\nSteinbeck and Ecology \n

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\nDoes The Grapes of Wrath hold as much relevance today as it did in the 1930s? Use this presentation to introduce John Steinbeck and one of his greatest novels. The author of this presentation encourages a connection between the Dust Bowl...\n
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\nGlobal Warming: Introduction to Global Warming\n

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\nStudents gather information about global warming and climate changes in preparation for future lessons on the Greenhouse Effect.\n
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\nPlankton to Penguins: Antarctic Food Web\n

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\nA well-written lesson plan, second in a series of four, gets high schoolers exploring how the Antarctic food web is impacted by climate change and the associated melting of polar ice sheets. It begins with a PowerPoint presentation about...\n
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\nCorals and Chemistry\n

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\nAfter demonstrating the use of cabbage juice as a pH indicator, have your class experiment with their own breath, exhaling into the indicator, to show that carbon dioxide is acidic. As learners work, they also watch a video about coral...\n
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\nRate of Coral Growth\n

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\nUsing the provided table of information, middle school marine biologists chart data on a graph to determine the impact of water depth on coral growth in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Then they answer questions that connect the data to...\n
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\nGlobal Warming\n

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\nYoung scholars read information about global warming and make their own greenhouse. In this global warming lesson, students read several pages of global warming and climate information. Young scholars then make their own greenhouse and...\n
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\nCartoons for the Classroom: The Climate Change Debate\n

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\nIs global warming all smoke and mirrors? Find out what your scholars think with this handout, which has them analyzing two political cartoons on the topic. Background information gives context, detailing the computer hacking during the...\n
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\nCoral Bleaching\n

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\nWhat is coral bleaching? Tackle a trendy topic with a narrated animation. Through a combination of video and illustration, the narrator introduces viewers to a coral reef, then goes inside a coral polyp to show its symbiotic relationship...\n
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\nGlobal Warming Statistics\n

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\nStudents research and collect data regarding temperature changes for a specific location and find the mean, median, and mode for their data. In this climate change lesson, students choose a location to research and collect data regarding...\n
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\nGlobal Warming of the Atmosphere\n

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\nScientists know the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today is higher than at any point in the last 800,000 years. Scholars learn about the amount of thermic radiation absorbed by air and what happens to the rest of the...\n
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\nThermal Expansion of Water: Rise of Sea Level\n

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\nUsing bunsen burners, Erlenmeyer flasks, thermometers, hollow glass tubes, stoppers, and rulers, learners experiment with and measure how water expands when heated. The activity connects the expansion of water when heated to global...\n
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\nWhy Humans Are so Bad at Thinking about Climate Change\n

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\nClimate change is in the news more than ever these days, and it will increasingly continue to be a hot topic in the future. Watch a video that proposes different ways people can begin to think about climate change in order to...\n
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\nGetting to the Core: The Link Between Temperature and Carbon Dioxide\n

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\nPolar ice samples provide scientists with valuable information about the condition of the atmosphere for hundreds of thousands of years in the past. Of particular interest is the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and its...\n
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\nGlobal Warming: Writing and Editing a Research Report\n

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\nBring environmental issues into your classroom! Practice writing and peer editing research reports on global warming and the greenhouse effect. Middle schoolers can work on their research skills, their writing skills, and how to...\n
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\nArctic Melt Time Lapse\n

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\nArctic melt is revealed in this dramatic video that shows an arctic ice cap becoming open sea and islands. Its effects on polar bears are narrated. Great for an environmental studies class or simply to raise awareness of global warming.\n
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\nClimate Change: The View From MinuteEarth\n

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\nHow does climate change look from where you're sitting? See the view from around the world in an animated video. The writers from Minute Earth share how changing conditions are impacting the economy, health, and well-being of their...\n
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