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Dimming the Sun

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students collect, interpret and analyze weather variable data. They describe atmospheric variables that affect evaporation. Students create graphs and analyze the information collected.
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Where Have All the Glaciers Gone?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine how climate change is affecting sea ice, vegetation and glaciers in the Arctic region.
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Unit on Globalization and the Environment

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders analyze issues affecting ecosystems. They examine the relationships between members of the international comunity. They also examine the concept of sustainable development.
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The Kyoto Protocol: What Should We Do?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine why the United States did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol. They develop their own opinion on the Protocol and share them with the class. They also discover how scientific data may be organized to use in a debate.
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Creating and Analyzing Graphs of Tropospheric Ozone

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create and analyze graphs using archived atmospheric data to compare the ozone levels of selected regions around the world.
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Air Pollution Word Search Activity

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Young scholars examine the issues surrounding air pollution. They discover how it affects peoples health and the government's regulations. They complete a word search activity to practice the vocabulary.
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Global Warming

For Students 5th - 8th
In this global warming activity, learners complete multiple choice questions about global warming. Students complete 5 questions total.
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Combustion Reactions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers write a balanced chemical reaction. They articulate how burning fossil fuels increase the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Students incorporate all the environmental risks involved as well.
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Science All Around You

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners visit and explore a Hands On Science Center (HOSC). They participate in a variety of self-guided table exercises and observe as scientists demonstrate various scientific principles.
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Biochemical Cycles: Recycling Carbon and Nitrogen

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students construct flow diagrams of the carbon and nitrogen cycle processes. They identify sequences in each cycle that are affected by human impact and present their research to the class.
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The Rubber Band Air Test

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students complete an experiment to determine how dirty the air is in their local community. They analyze images and discuss the varying degrees of air pollution. They discuss the results of the experiment.
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The Environment Word Search

For Students 1st
For this environment worksheet, 1st graders review and discuss fourteen key terms associated with the environment. Students then locate and circle each one in a word search puzzle.
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Rain Machine (Solar Still)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experiment with a solar still. In this distillation lesson, students find a simple way to use evaporation to make salty water drinkable.
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Survival Still

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explain how to desalinate water using solar energy.  In this solar lesson students complete a lab activity and explain capillary water. 
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ESL: Environmental Problems

For Students 4th - 6th
In this ESL environmental problem worksheet, learners work with a partner to explain a set of terms, then divide a set of words that have to do with the environment into syllables.
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Biomes: Extreme Climate

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss the causes of global warming. In this earth science activity, students examine how global warming is connected to the arctic and world climate. They write a paragraph about their interconnection.
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The Energy Debate - Sea Level Rise

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners comprehend the impact of global warming on our coastal cities. They appreciate how geographic information systems can be used to represent scientific data. Students research the melting of the ice caps in Antarctica and the Arctic.
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The Energy Debate - Conclusion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners write a persuasive essay about the choices in the energy debate. They comprehend the environmental consequences that accompany the decision. Students predict how they will power their future.
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The Environment: Vocabulary

For Students 5th - 6th
In this environment vocabulary worksheet, students complete 12 multiple choice questions, then translate a set of "environment words."
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Heat Transfer and Pollution

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students perform computer simulations on air dispersion. In this chemistry instructional activity, students calculate energy transfer based on specific heat and temperature change. They explain the causes of smog.
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Rain Forest Deforestation

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore the destructive deforestation of rain forests in Brazil to clear the land for crops and livestock. Students demonstrate how the burning of a forest releases carbon dioxide by performing an experiment.
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What Do Concentrations Mean?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the concept of climate gases and practice using the appropriate measurement terms. The lesson includes information that is used by the teacher to conduct class discussion or as a source of background for students.
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Science Word Search

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this science instructional activity, students locate and identify various vocabulary terms related to earth science. There are 44 words/phrases located in the puzzle.

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