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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Lab 5: Droughts of the Past

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that explores droughts. In this activity, students investigate droughts of the past by watching a PBS video and examining maps and animations of drought patterns.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Lab 8: Drought Mitigation Trade Offs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that explores droughts. In this activity, students research drought mitigation technologies and their cost and benefits. They present their findings to the class with physical models and make a...
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Center for Educational Technologies

Cet: Exploring the Environment: Drought

For Students 9th - 10th
The U.S. National Park Service has asked students to advise it whether the drought that greatly impacted the Midwest and Southwest is a consequence of global climate change or just an abnormal weather pattern. In either case, they will...
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Other

Niwa: Drought

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about droughts! Understand that a drought is a period of insufficient plant growth due to low rainfall amount. Also learn how droughts are predicted and the impacts of a drought on an ecosystem.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Drought

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The unit teaches students to interpret climate data to recognize the symptoms and evaluate the severity of drought. It helps them realize that drought can still devastate areas that have stable infrastructure and access to expensive...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Heat Waves and Droughts

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the causes and effects of heat waves and droughts.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Heat Waves and Droughts

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the causes and effects of heat waves and droughts.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Drought

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Eight online learning labs which focus on the effects of drought, the quiet disaster. Each module takes students to external sites containing data, graphs, and articles. Several labs also require additional software programs: a...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Excerpt From "On Drought Conditions"

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from "On Drought Conditions"" by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF...
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Cisa: The Impact on Drought on Coastal Ecosystems in the Carolinas [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This State of Knowledge Report provides a synthesis and analysis of the peer-reviewed literature regarding drought impacts on coastal ecosystems in the Carolinas. Its objective is to expand current, limited understanding of drought...
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PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: Drought and Famine Plagues Horn of Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this news article and view the sad images of those suffereing in the 2011 drought and famine in the Horn of Africa. [July 19, 2011] Included are related resources, including classroom activities and an interactive map showing the...
Handout
US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Drought

For Students 9th - 10th
General information about droughts includes how to determine when a drought begins and what areas of the United States they are most likely to occur.
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Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: Dust Bowl Exodus: How Drought and the Depression Took Their Toll

For Students 9th - 10th
Activity-based resource on the social and economic conditions of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. Students select from a list of comprehensive reference material to research the times and then choose a 1930s artist on which to report....
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Torrents, Droughts, and Twisters Oh My!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students review what scientists know and what they're working to understand about the relationship between extreme weather events and climate change.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: What Is a Drought?

For Students 2nd - 8th
Learn about droughts, their causes, different types, effects, and other interesting facts.
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eSchool Today

E School Today: Your Cool Facts and Tips on Droughts

For Students 4th - 8th
Provides a definition of a drought while exploring types, causes and effects, economic, environmental, and social impact, and how to manage one.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Gardens: Drought Tolerant Container and Landscape Plants [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This chart provides a list of drought-tolerant container and landscape plants for all your gardening concerns.
Handout
Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Precipitation: Drought in Eastern Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
Article discussing the occurrence of drought in Eastern Africa, and how it is likely to increase in frequency in future years due to global warming, putting enormous stress on countries such as Kenya and Ethiopia. (Updated July 12, 2012)
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BBC

Bbc Newsround: California Drought Declared as Wildfires Rage

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Article reports on drought and wildfires wreaking havoc in California.
eBook
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: The 1991/1992 Drought

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research offers information on drought and global climate conditions, with an explanation of the trade winds.
Activity
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Lab 4: When Precipitation Patterns Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that explores droughts. This lab has students looking at precipitation data to define what a drought and predict drought conditions.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Lab 6: Drying of the American West

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that explores droughts. This experiment is presented as a case study for the drought conditions in the Colorado River. With this case study, students study the decrease of fresh water...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Lab 1: Where's the Water?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that explores drought. Here students look at the availability of world's fresh water by investigating graphics and analyzing data to see where the world's water supply is going.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Lab 3: Normal Climate Patterns

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that explores droughts. In this lab, students analyze data to determine what a normal climate should be.

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