Nine Planets
The Nine Planets: Earth
A detailed physical description of Earth. Content includes information on the Earth's layers and geology of the surface, along with links to additional information.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Atmospheric Chemistry Memory Game
Choose a difficulty level. Then click on the tiles (squares) to reveal pictures of molecules. Try to match two pictures.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: The Weather at High Altitudes
Learn about the air and weather that happens high up in the atmosphere.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Measuring and Protecting Skin
Students learn about the vulnerability of skin to solar radiation, and ways to protect it. They compare their skin to that of an orange, and measure the approximate amount of skin that each has. The lesson and accompanying PowerPoint can...
NASA
Nasa: Using Radiosonde Data From a Weather Balloon Launch
This lesson plan allows students to learn about the layers of the atmosphere and to learn how to graph real atmospheric data.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Molecules and Light
An interactive simulation that teaches about molecules, photons, and absorption by exploring how light interacts with molecules in our atmosphere. Through this simulation students can get a better understanding of the importance of the...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Molecules and Light
Do you ever wonder how a greenhouse gas affects the climate, or why the ozone layer is important? Use the sim to explore how light interacts with molecules in our atmosphere.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Battling for Oxygen
Using gumdrops and toothpicks, students conduct a large-group, interactive ozone depletion model. Students explore the dynamic and competing upper atmospheric roles of the protective ozone layer, the sun's UV radiation and harmful...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: A Recipe for Air
Students use M&M's to create a pie graph that expresses their understanding of the composition of air. The students discuss why knowing this information is important to engineers.
Center for Educational Technologies
Nasa Classroom of the Future: Environment Module: Uv Menace
This site provides information and activities for classes to learn more about ozone depletion and UV radiation.
Carnegie Mellon University
Chem Collective: Ozone: A Scenario Based Activity in Kinetics
Students use kinetics to interpret raw experimental data to determine the mechanism of ozone destruction. In this pen and pencil activity, students are given data obtained from laboratory experiments to study the ozone depletion reaction.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Above the Clouds: Telescopes on Mauna Kea
This video segment adapted from First Light explains why the highest peak in the Pacific, Mauna Kea, is an ideal site for astronomical observations. Featured are new telescope technologies that allow astronomers to explore the universe...
Other
Breathing Earth
Breathing Earth layers data about rates of carbon dioxide emission along with birth and death rates onto a map of the world in a real-time simulation of one of the principal greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere, CO2.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is the Biosphere?
This article explains that as our knowledge of life on the planet evolves, we've come to use the word biosphere as a way of explaining the entire intertwined network of life on Earth. This concept combines an understanding of geology,...
Idaho State University
Global Wind Systems [Pdf]
A great description of the global scale circulation and heat energy. Discusses a single-cell model, a three-cell model, jet streams and more.
Center for Educational Technologies
Cotf: Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics provides geology with a comprehensive theory that explains how the Earth works.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Thermosphere and Beyond
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the properites of the thermosphere and exosphere.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Thermosphere and Beyond
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the properties of the thermosphere and exosphere.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix Series: Percent Composition
[Free Registration/Login Required] Manipulate graph data to see a representation of the percent composition of different compounds. Then answer a challenge question about the activity.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Whole Body Ozone Chemistry
In this activity, students will play the roles of various atoms and molecules to help them better understand how ozone is formed in the earth's stratosphere.
NASA
Nasa Space Place: Thermosphere
A brief explanation of the thermosphere home to the International Space Station.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Stratosphere
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the properties of the stratosphere.
Other
Antarctic Geological Drilling: Environmental Literacy Framework Activities
An impressive collection of lessons on climate science and climate change. The entire book can be downloaded. As well, each lesson has its own page with some combination of background information, PowerPoints, images, maps, glossaries,...
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