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Clean: Carbon Calculator Activity
In this learning activity, students use a web-based carbon calculator to determine their carbon footprint on the basis of their personal and household habits and choices. Students identify which personal activities and household choices...
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Clean: Understanding Ocean Acidification
The following is a series of 5 activities regarding ocean acidifcation Learners will learn about rising Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere, climate change, ocean reefs, marine calcifers and ocean pH.
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Clean: Global Ocean Conveyor Belt
This hands-on activity explores the driving forces behind global thermohaline circulation.
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Clean: How Much Energy Is on My Plate?
This activity leads students through a sequence of learning steps that highlight the embedded energy that is necessary to produce various types of food. Students start by thinking through the components of a basic meal and are later...
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Clean: Life Cycle Assessment of Biofuels 101
Multi-instructional activity activity in which students conduct a life cycle assessment of energy and carbon dioxide used and produced in ethanol production.
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Clean: Evaluating Woody Biomass Options for North Carolina's Electricity Future
In this activity, students learn about the pros and cons of co-firing woody biomass fuels with coal to produce electricity.
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Clean: Fueling the Future: Evaluating the Sustainability of Biofuels
Students consider the impact and sustainability of use of different biofuels on the economy, the environment, and society. Students also learn about bioelectricity and how converting biomass to electricity may be the more efficient way...
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Clean: Fermentation in a Bag
A hands-on inquiry activity using zip-lock plastic bags that allows students to observe the process of fermentation and the challenge of producing ethanol from cellulosic sources. Students are asked to predict outcomes and check their...
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Clean: Time Series: Uncovering the Hidden Processes in Science
In the following exercise, students will review techniques useful to scientists asthey analyze series of data. Learn about scientific observation and try to recognize a pattern or trend within the data.
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Clean: Penguin Communities Shift on the Antarctic Peninsula
This multi-lesson activity investigates the shifting of three penguin communities in Antarctica in response to climate change.
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Clean: It's Time to Tell the Story About Buds, Leaves and Global Warming
In this activity, students explore how, in New England, the timing of color change and leaf drop of deciduous trees is changing.
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Clean: Investigating Behavior of Krill
In this lab activity, students use brine shrimp as a substitute for krill to investigate how changes in environmental factors affect behavioral responses of krill in the unique environment of Antarctica.
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Clean: Introduction to Earth's Climate
This lesson is an introduction to Earth's climate and covers key principles regarding Earth's unique climate, atmosphere, and regional and temporal climate differences. Students will gain an understanding of how the weather and climate...
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Clean: A Global Issue: The Impacts of Climate Change
This is activity five of a 9-activity module. Activity explores the effects of climate change on different parts of the Earth system and on human well-being: polar regions, coral reefs, disease vectors, extreme weather, and biodiversity.
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Clean: Hurricanes as Heat Engines
For this activity, young scholars examine the effects of hurricanes on sea surface temperature using NASA data. They examine authentic sea surface temperature data to explore how hurricanes extract heat energy from the ocean surface.
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Clean: Greenhouse Gases: A Closer Look
One lesson in a larger module covering different aspects of the major greenhouse gases including some of the ways in which human activities are affecting the atmospheric concentrations of these key greenhouse gases.
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Clean: Is Climate Change Happening?
A instructional activity studying climate change. Students will discuss how greenhouse gas concentrations relates to climate. This instructional activity is part of a series of nine-instructional activity module.
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Clean: Carbon Dioxide Fertilization of Marine Microalgae Cultures
For this experiment, students investigate the importance of carbon dioxide to the reproductive growth of a marine microalga, Dunalliela sp.
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Clean: Climate and Civilization: The Maya Example
Students use geophysical and geochemical data collected by the Ocean Drilling Program to examine climate in Central America during the recent past. They also have the opportunity to investigate the link between climate change and...
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Clean: Climographs: Temperature, Precipitation, and the Human Condition
A lesson where students learn how to read, analyze, and construct climographs which display monthly average temperature and precipitation. Students also practice matching climographs to various locations and summarize global-scale...
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Clean: Mt. Pinatubo and the Atmosphere
This lesson explores the impact of volcanic eruptions on the atmosphere. Students will analyze three types of visual information: a graph of aerosol optical depth v. global temperature, a global map with temperature anomalies, and an ash...
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Clean: State Electricity on Google Earth: How Many Solar Panels Would It Take?
This activity addresses the Energy Awareness Principle by having students calculate electricity use by state, and also determine how much land would be required to replace all sources of electricity with solar panels considering costs...
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Clean: Carbon Dioxide Sources and Sinks
For this lab activity, students use a chemical indicator (bromothymol blue) to detect the presence of carbon dioxide in animal and plant respiration and in the burning of fossil fuels and its absence in the products of plant...
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Clean: Us Energy Production and Consumption
In this lesson students will compare and contrast regional energy production of 5 different US regions, including California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington. Students will also analyze production and consumption data of US...