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- 9th
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Students participate in a simulation of a select scientific team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students explore the design and workings of meteorology through this unit of nine lessons. The interactions of Earth's systems, its structure, and its dynamic changes are probed. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students study the trend for forest fires incidents as they increase in Canada. They examine how climate change is one of the causes in the increase and how the fires affect the social, economic, and environmental status in the country. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students gather information on whether protective or camouflage material provides better protection from a predator. They make predictions about how different environmental stresses affect natural selection. They share their predictions with the class. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students work together to build different types of roofs. They design each one differently based on the climate the roof will be in. They discover how civil engineers design structures that are appropriate for different environments. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students discuss potential consequences of climate change and the need to investigate climate change. They identify current issues related to global climate change. Students discuss how scientific knowledge of global climate has evolved and continues to evolve, as new evidence becomes known. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore about and evaluate the potential impacts of climate change on northern hydrological systems. They work in small groups, research the background to climate change in the north with a particular focus on lakes and rivers. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students articulate differences between climate and weather using examples in a written statement. Using climate data from across the country, they describe climate patterns for various parts of the United States on a map. Students explain how land and water masses might affect temperature and precipitation using the climate data. Full Review »
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- 8th - 12th
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Students demonstrate the greenhouse effect. They recognize that relatively small changes to our environment can stimulate significant climate changes. They determine that the "scientific method" is a process of testing hypotheses and that global climate changes will affect us far beyond simply warming the outdoor air temperatures. Vocabulary Baseline Carbon dioxide Convection Energy Full Review »
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- 4th - 5th
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Students practice analyzing ice core samples to discover climate changes. Using the samples, they identify and graph the gas amounts. They use these numbers to determine their effect on global warming. In pairs, they complete a background worksheet. Full Review »
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