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Activity Book: Discover Your Changing World With NOAA
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Activity Book: Discover Your Changing World With NOAA

Collector: Ann V.
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Introduce middle schoolers to the essential principles of climate science with a collection of 10 activities. Class members learn about the Earth’s climate systems, factors that change these systems, and the impacts of those changes. Young ecologists also learn things they can do to protect the Earth.

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weather, acids, acids and bases, animal adaptations, atmospheric conditions, barometers, bases, carbon, carbon dioxide, climate, climate change, climate regions, climates, extinction, fossil fuels, fossil records, fossils, greenhouse gases, heat, heat energy, human impact on the environment, motion, planet earth, resistance, solar energy, temperature, the earth, the sun, weather data, weather forecasting, weather instruments, ph, air temperature, electric currents, indicators, mass extinction, measuring temperature, rain gauge, solar radiation, the atmosphere, the greenhouse effect, weather station, weather vanes, the carbon cycle, the earth's atmosphere, the earth-moon-sun system

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6th - 8th
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Science
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SL.6.5 SL.7.5 SL.8.5 RST.6-8.3 RST.6-8.4 RST.6-8.7

Collection Items

    The Great, Glowing Orb What You Will Do: Make a Solar Heat Engine

    The Great, Glowing Orb What You Will Do: Make a Solar Heat Engine

    Activity
    The Climate Team: Make a Solar Heat Engine

    The Climate Team: Make a Solar Heat Engine

    Activity
    Climate Is Our Friend…Isn’t It?: Make an Extinction Polyhedron

    Climate Is Our Friend…Isn’t It?: Make an Extinction Polyhedron

    Activity
    Climate, Weather…What’s the Difference?: Make an Electronic Temperature Sensor

    Climate, Weather…What’s the Difference?: Make an Electronic Temperature Sensor

    Activity
    How Do We Know?: Make Additional Weather Sensors; Set Up a Home Weather Station

    How Do We Know?: Make Additional Weather Sensors; Set Up a Home Weather Station

    Activity
    I Didn’t Do It…Did I?: Make Your Own Greenhouse Effect

    I Didn’t Do It…Did I?: Make Your Own Greenhouse Effect

    Activity
    Why Should I Care?: Show How Increased Carbon Dioxide Makes the Ocean More Acidic

    Why Should I Care?: Show How Increased Carbon Dioxide Makes the Ocean More Acidic

    Activity
    Are You Climate Literate?: Play the Essential Principles Challenge

    Are You Climate Literate?: Play the Essential Principles Challenge

    Activity
    Communicate!: Create a Unique Message About Climate Change

    Communicate!: Create a Unique Message About Climate Change

    Activity
    The Incredible Carbon Journey: Play the Carbon Journey Game

    The Incredible Carbon Journey: Play the Carbon Journey Game

    Activity
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