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World Wildlife Fund: Climate Change
The World Wildlife Fund offers a comprehensive overview of climate change, also known as "Global warming." Content includes basic information about the process and its effect on the environment, the science to back it up, conservation...
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Molecules and the Properties of Bonded Atoms
College-level site goes into great detail about chemical bonding properties, as far as energies, structure, angles, and length. Infrared absorption, the greenhouse effect, and global warming are addressed to exemplify bond length...
OneWorld UK
One World: Hot Earth: Climate Change for Kids
Younger students will love this colorful yet educational site on global warming and climate change. Easy to read factual information is included. Available in many different languages.
Other
Climate Solutions
This resource provides solutions to global warming issues and problems, with specific information pertaining to the Pacific Northwest.
National Wildlife Federation
National Wildlife Federation: Wildlife Watch
Folks are observing the effects of global warming by identifying the wildlife creatures they see in their local states. Check out the interactive map that highlights the observations in each of the fifty states. Learn how to become a...
PBS
Nova: If the Ice Melts
Global warming is becoming a big concern. See how it might affect the shorelines if parts of the Antarctic ice sheet melt. Diagrams of the east coast, Florida, northern Europe and southeast Asia are available.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Global Climate Change
Students learn how the greenhouse effect is related to global warming and how global warming impacts our planet, including global climate change. Extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and how we react to these changes are the main...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: Seasons and Temperature: Greenhouse Effect
Animated resource helps young researchers understand what global warming and the greenhouse effect mean.
NASA
Nasa: Global Warming
This site introduces global warming, and the greenhouse effect and the gases contributing to it.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Earth's Warming Climate: Are We Responsible?
We obviously don't want to feel responsible for the warming climate, but are we? In this lesson plan you will analyze CO2 data sets and study barriers involved in teaching about global climate change. PBS TeacherLine also provides a...
eSchool Today
E School Today: What Can I Do About Global Warming/climate Change?
Learn about the simple actions you can take to help slow the effects of climate change.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Global Climate Change
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers global climate change.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Climate Patterns, Causes, and Effects
This interesting site examines climatic changes over the last 10,000 years, temperature changes over the last 100 years, causes of global warming, and the effects of global warming.
Biology Pages
Kimball's Biology Pages: The Carbon Cycle
Useful introduction to the carbon cycle with a diagram and a discussion of the effects of carbon dioxide on the greenhouse effect and global warming.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Repeat Photography Project
The Repeat Photography Project pairs historic images with contemporary photos thus documenting glacial decline through photography while communicating the effects of global warming.
Center for Educational Technologies
Nasa Classroom of the Future: Earth on Fire
Information and activities looking at the impact of industrial and agricultural practices on global warming.
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: The Ultimate Heating Season
This article talks discusses the climbing temperature and how it is affecting our lives here on earth. It examines El-Nina, global warming, and the greenhouse effect.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Hot Stuff!
Students observe demonstrations, and build and evaluate simple models to understand the greenhouse effect and the role of increased greenhouse gas concentration in global warming.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Air, Atmosphere, and Climate Change
Sixteen essential questions lead student learning about Earth's atmosphere and global warming as they have to do with global climate change.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Physics & Chemistry: Methane
Article explaining what methane is, its impact as a greenhouse gas on global warming, and natural and man-made sources of methane. (Published: April 30, 2010)
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Koshland Science Museum: Earth Lab: Degrees of Change
This resource provides information on all of the aspects of global warming, climate change, and the future of the earth.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Prehistoric Climate Change and Why It Matters Today
In a instructional activity in this issue of Smithsonian in Your Classroom, students do the work of a team of paleontologists studying a time of rising carbon dioxide and rapid global warming during the Eocene epoch. By examining fossils...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Let's Heat Things Up!
Learners observe demonstrations, and build and evaluate simple models to understand the greenhouse effect, the role of increased greenhouse gas concentration in global warming, and the implications of global warming theory for engineers,...
PBS
Pbs: Nova: Dimming the Sun
An online presentation of NOVA's program Dimming the Sun. You can read a transcript of the show, read an essay on the effect of contrails on global warming, and view slideshows tracing a timeline of climate change and new technologies...