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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Urbanization & Migration in the Developing World

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson presents the scale of recent urbanization in different global regions and the diverse roles that migrants play in contributing to urbanization. The following graph, map, video, and news report provide a general overview of...
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Mass Exodus From the Plains

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is from PBS.org explaining the migration of people out of the plains during the dust bowl. Use this article to learn all about the reasons people left and where they went.
Article
BBC

Bbc: Resource Depletion: Opportunity or Looming Catastrophe?

For Students 9th - 10th
The depletion of the world's natural resources threatens the very survival of humans. This article discusses the causes and consequences of our overuse of natural resources, projections for our future, and what types of solutions are...
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Other

Mr. Dowling's Passport: Life Expectancy Around the World

For Students 6th - 8th
From the CIA World Fact Book, this chart displays life expectancy statistics by country. Also links to data from the last two years.
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NASA

Nasa: Astronomy Picture of the Day:

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A different image is featured each day along with descriptive narrative. NASA offers different and sometimes unexpected views of our Earth and the universe.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Coral Bleaching: A White Hot Problem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate coral bleaching using water temperature data from the NOAA National Data Buoy Center. Then they learn about the habitat of corals, the stresses on coral populations, and the impact of increased sea surface...
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Other

Climate Central: Surging Seas

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive map that shows how areas will be effective by rising sea levels. See the flooding risks down to the neighborhood. Also find statistics of affected populations, homes and lands. There is also factsheets, widgets, and action...
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National Earth Science Teachers Association

Windows to the Universe: Feeling the Heat

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this instructional activity students learn about the urban heat island effect by investigating which areas of their schoolyard have higher temperatures. Then they analyze data about how the number of heat waves in an urban area has...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Web Links

For Students 9th - 10th
Helpful links for research on the Anthropocene Era.
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American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: Species, Speciation and the Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
The American Institute of Biological Sciences offers this article by Niles Eldredge, evolutionary theorist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History. Eldredge begins with Darwin's theories and summarizes subsequent thought,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: A Subsistence Culture Impacted by Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
This short video explains how warmer temperatures in the Arctic are transforming the ecosystem and affecting the Athabaskan people, threatening their way of life. [2:59]
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Curated OER

Bbc: Report Reveals Global Slum Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
Outlines the problems of the urban populations in Subsaharan African countries. Examines why the people move into these communities and why they get stuck there.
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Other

Migration

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the movement of people from one place to another with this informative look at migration. Discover the push and pull factors, migration into Europe, and the main types of migration.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Problems Facing Internally Displaced Persons Worldwide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use video segments from the PBS series Women, War & Peace, as well as information from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the United Nations to learn more about internally displaced populations.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Water Pollution and Treatment

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about water management, treatment and purification- global issues that must be addressed to ensure a continued supply of safe water for the growing human population and for the organisms with which we share this planet.
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National Geographic

National Geographic: National Geography Standards Migration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Detailed site that explains the National Geography Standards. It supplies an extensive explanation of voluntary and involuntary migration. This information is helpful for developing a better understanding of migration and human movement.
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Curated OER

Capitol Steel Mill

For Students 9th - 10th
China has a population of over one billion people and is a huge energy consumer. No examination of global warming would be complete without looking at China's contribution to the problem, its burgeoning awareness of this and its efforts...
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Curated OER

Beijing's Center

For Students 9th - 10th
China has a population of over one billion people and is a huge energy consumer. No examination of global warming would be complete without looking at China's contribution to the problem, its burgeoning awareness of this and its efforts...
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Curated OER

Drought That Helped Spread Forest Fires

For Students 9th - 10th
China has a population of over one billion people and is a huge energy consumer. No examination of global warming would be complete without looking at China's contribution to the problem, its burgeoning awareness of this and its efforts...
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Curated OER

Water Tables Are Dropping

For Students 9th - 10th
China has a population of over one billion people and is a huge energy consumer. No examination of global warming would be complete without looking at China's contribution to the problem, its burgeoning awareness of this and its efforts...
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Curated OER

Dried Up Fish Ponds

For Students 9th - 10th
China has a population of over one billion people and is a huge energy consumer. No examination of global warming would be complete without looking at China's contribution to the problem, its burgeoning awareness of this and its efforts...
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Curated OER

Receding Glacier

For Students 9th - 10th
China has a population of over one billion people and is a huge energy consumer. No examination of global warming would be complete without looking at China's contribution to the problem, its burgeoning awareness of this and its efforts...
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The World Bank

World Bank: Data Catalog

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides statistical data on numerous categories for nearly every country in the world. A great tool for a comparative analysis. Human, natural, and capital resources are all included.
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Other

Mapping Worlds: Show World: A New Way to Look at the World

For Students 9th - 10th
This unique combination of data, demographics and innovative visuals resizes countries on a world map in relation to a menu of insightful data-driven topics, such number of deaths from cancer or amount of steel produced, giving us a new...

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