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Remote Sensing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the effects of global warming on specific organisms. They research the possible problems global warming is causing.
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Is Global Warming Happening?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the probability of global warming and the effects of global warming on the environment. They conduct Internet research and collect data, transfer the data onto an Excel spreadsheet, and create a presentation that...
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Fish Hazards

For Teachers 1st - 7th
Students study the Pacific salmon and see the different challenges they face.  In this environment lesson students complete several activities that show how humans have affected the salmon environment. These activities have varying...
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Changes in Western Art: From Realism To Cubism"

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover the influences of mid 19th and early 20th century art styles: Realism, Impressionism, Post / Neo Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism through an analysis of styles, subject matter, and media.
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Let's Heat Things Up!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students build and evaluate simple models to understand the greenhouse effect. They explore the role of increased greenhouse gas concentration in global warming, and the implications of global warming theory for engineers, themselves...
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Causes, Effects, Solutions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research two key topics. In this environment lesson, students review the greenhouse effect and global warming. Students form groups and research questions about these two topics. Students present their answers to the class.
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Defining Drought

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the hydrologic impacts of drought. Humans can change the course of the water cycle, to some extent, to meet their needs, but can they do so without imposing risks on the plants and animals?
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the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability And Change

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students analyze the consequences of changing variables on a system. Changes in a model are measured and recorded and conclusions drawn based on the data provided in this six lessons unit.
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The Effects of Color on Heat Absorption And Climate

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students conduct an experiment to determine the effects of soil color on its day and night time temperatures. In small groups, they prepare dishes of black soil, brown peat moss, and white sand. They record the temperature changes when a...
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The Changing Union

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders analyze a document and make assessment and historical prediction based on the text. In this establishment of American government lesson, 4th graders analyze a poem and discuss the climate of the Union in the early 1800's....
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What Makes you Hot?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students manipulate different variables in a model and make inferences about the temperature on Earth.  In this heat lesson students calculate the blackbody radiation of an object at a certain temperature. 
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The Noughties

For Students 9th
In this World History worksheet, 9th graders read an article and answer nine comprehension questions.  Students write definitions to vocabulary words. 
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Living During the Little Ice Age

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students brainstorm what living conditions during the period known as the Little Ice Age (1350-1850) might have been like. They research lifestyles, the economy, crop yields, and human and livestock mortality.
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It's a Gas!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the conditions under which hydrates form. They use the Internet to access information and conduct experiments to examine how the greenhouse effect works.
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Global Warming – More or Less

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders identify the factors that contribute to global warming. In this earth science activity, 8th graders evaluate the impact of global warming on the planet. They discuss their views within the group.
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Factors Affecting Ocean Currents

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students design and conduct an experiment to determine the effect of salinity and temperature changes in the movement of ocean currents. For this earth science lesson, students record observations and collect data. They share their...
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Ice Floats

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the changing density of water. In this physics instructional activity, students investigate how an object's density determines whether it will float or sink in water. They explain why this unique property of is important...
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Biomes: The Threat of the Sea

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create posters to raise awareness about Global Warming as an immediate threat.  In this environmental instructional activity, students respond to the video Biomes: The Threat of the Sea by researching global warming...
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Going Green Collaboratively

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create displays on what their local community is doing to help global warming and pollution. In this going green lesson plan, students create displays that will be at the local Community Center for observers to see.
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Global Warming Information at the Mount

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this online interactive science worksheet, students answer 4 science questions with multiple choice answers regarding global warming. Students fill in the answer online to one question about temperature.
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Biomes: the Threat of the Sea

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers study global warming including its causes and effects.  For this creative lesson students make posters on global warming.   
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Saving the Sandhill Cranes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore environmental awareness by participating in movie making. For this endangered species lesson, students discuss the problems dealing with sandhill cranes at a nearby beach and the impact our environment is having on them....
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Elements of Chemistry: Solids, Liquids and Gases

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students predict if icebergs melting has an effect on the sea level rising.  In this global warming instructional activity students complete an experiment to see the effects of melting icebergs and write a conclusion on their data...
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Global Warming and Hurricanes: Is an Increase in the Number of Stronger Hurricanes an Indicator of Global Warming

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders investigate whether stronger hurricanes are signs of global warming. For this environmental science lesson, 9th graders research both sides of the issue about global warming. They debate for or against this issue in class.

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