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Ucar: What Do Soda and the Oceans Have in Common?
Students will use soda to explore how carbon dioxide is able to dissolve into liquid. They will learn about Henry's law, which describes how the solubility of gas into liquids is dependent on temperature and develop hypotheses about how...
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Ucar: Not Your Usual Pop!
Students learn how to crush a can with only air pressure.
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Ucar: Ozone Attack
In this activity, students observe how rubber bands deteriorate, developing cracks or pits, in locations with different ozone levels.
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Ucar: Ozone in Our Neighborhood
Students will experiment to understand variations in the amount of ground-level ozone between different places in their neighborhood, town, or city.
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Ucar: Modeling Smog
In this activity, students create molecule models using marshmallows to understand and explain how smog forms.
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Ucar: Modeling a Weather Front
In this demonstration, students observe how temperature changes can create a weather front, in particular how the mixing of warm and cold air can produce thunderstorms.
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Ucar: Make a Tornado
Students explore factors that influence why certain areas in the United States have more tornadoes than others and observe a model to visualize what is happening during a tornado.
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Ucar: Glaciers Then and Now
Students compare photographs of glaciers to observe how Alaskan glaciers have changed over the last century.
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Ucar: Co2: How Much Do You Spew?
Young scholars analyze the energy consumption of a hypothetical household to determine the amount of carbon dioxide they are adding to the atmosphere each year.
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Ucar: Get the Picture Severe Weather
Students review graphs and charts of severe weather data then answer "True and False" questions about the content conveyed.
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Ucar: Clouds in the Air: Why Are They There?
An experiment that demonstrates why there are clouds in the sky. Start with air, invisible water vapor, particles we call condensation nuclei, and air pressure...the cloud comes later!
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Ucar: Modeling Wind Dynamics and Forests
In this activity, students will develop a model of a forest using plastic bottles and then observe and analyze changes in winds related to differences in forest density.
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Ucar: Satellite Storm Search
Young scholars investigate a physical model to explore how satellite data impacts weather monitoring and forecasting.
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Ucar: Modeling Tree Transpiration
In this activity, young scholars will observe and measure the water given off through transpiration by a plant in a small terrarium.
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Ucar: Balloon Inside a Bottle
Air takes up space. It's only when air in the bottle escapes that more air is easily added!
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Ucar: Raise the Roof on Urban Heat
Students use a simple model to explore how roof colors can impact the temperature of an urban area.
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Ucar: Flood Chances
Students test the hypothesis that a 100-year flood happens once every hundred years, learning how the probability of a flood does not mean that floods happen at regular intervals.
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Ucar: Cloud Viewer
Use the Cloud Viewer to explore the clouds and sky outside.
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Ucar: The Water Cycle and Climate Change
Water moves from place to place through the water cycle, which is changing as climate changes. Learn how the water cycle is changing as global temperatures rise.
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Ucar: Why the Polar Vortex Keeps Breaking Out of the Arctic
Why does the Polar Vortex keep breaking out of the Arctic? Surprisingly, warming global temperatures play a role.
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Ucar: Create a Portable Cloud
In this hands-on activity, students experiment to discover how moisture, pressure, temperature, and condensation nuclei play a role in cloud formation.
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Ucar: Wind
Wind is air moving from a place that has higher pressure to one that has lower pressure. Sometimes wind is just a light breeze and other times it is strong enough to blow the roofs off buildings.
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Ucar: Visualizing Weather and Climate
With visualizations, we can see the entire planet from all angles at once. We can see the invisible - such as water vapor in the atmosphere and the way air flows around the world.
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Ucar: Weather Glossary
A glossary of common weather related words.