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Ucar: Water, Water Everywhere

For Students 3rd - 5th
Dewdrop teaches the water cycle through this interactive map of rivers, oceans, groundwater, the atmosphere, and glaciers.
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Ucar: Living in the Greenhouse

For Students 3rd - 5th
Check out the whole story of climate from ancient times through greenhouse gasses with this interactive resource.
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Ucar: Remote Sensing

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the importance of radar and satellite sensing in weather forecasting. Well illustrated with useful animations showing how radar and satellite sensing works.
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Ucar: Paleoclimates and Pollen

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this extensive lesson plan, learners examine and investigate pictures of pollen grains to determine the likely climate at the time the pollen was shed.
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Ucar: Project Learn: Where in the World Is Carbon Dioxide?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson on greenhouse gas, young scholars conduct experiments to detect and collect carbon dioxide, then use titration to determine how much carbon dioxide is present in an indicator solution.
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Ucar: Learning Zone

For Students 3rd - 8th
This comprehensive, interactive site is loaded with information, activities, and stories about thunderstorms, lightning, and tornadoes. Find out how these weather systems are formed, how they impact our lives, and how they cause chaos.
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Ucar: The Ozone Layer

For Students 9th - 10th
Nice overview of this ozone layer. The stratosphere is known as the "life-protecting" layer found at the top of the stratosphere.
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Ucar: The Earth as a System

For Teachers 6th - 8th
An overview of content about Earth and its atmosphere. The module was developed for middle school science teachers to provide background information for teaching the curriculum.
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Ucar: Atmospheric Science Explorers: Global Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed overview of global climate change, with explanations of Earth's climate change, the carbon cycle, ecosystems, and greenhouse gases, and how the movements of matter and energy impact on climate. All information is reinforced...
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Ucar: Make a Thunderstorm

For Students 9th - 10th
Thunderstorms only happen under certain conditions. See if you can choose the right mix of temperatures and humidity to create a big thunderstorm.
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Ucar: Create a Snowstorm

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the factors that combine to create a snowstorm in this interactive.
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Ucar: Make a Hurricane

For Students 9th - 10th
Make a hurricane and learn about the factors that control the strength of the storm, including temperature, moisture, and winds.
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Ucar: Layers of Earth's Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the layers of Earth's atmosphere: troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere.
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Ucar: The Very, Very Simple Climate Model

For Students 9th - 10th
Through a simple online model, students learn about the relationship between average global temperature and carbon dioxide emissions while predicting temperature change over the 21st Century.
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Ucar: Forecast a Hurricane

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to forecast a hurricane. Choose a high/low combination and see where the hurricane will go.
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Ucar: Earth's Energy Balance

For Students 9th - 10th
See how Earth's temperature would change if the Sun's brightness increased or dimmed or if Earth's albedo was different.
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Ucar: Virtual Ballooning to Explore the Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the atmosphere by launching Virtual Weather Balloons. This "virtual laboratory" simulation lets you investigate the layers of Earth's atmosphere.
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Ucar: Hurricanes and Climate

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate maps and data to learn where and when hurricanes form and how climate change may be affecting them.
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Ucar: The Art of Clouds

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students use a cloud identification guide to identify clouds in landscape paintings, then make their own art to identify cloud types.
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Ucar: The Nitrogen Cycle Game

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students play the role of nitrogen atoms traveling through the nitrogen cycle to gain understanding of the varied pathways through the cycle and the relevance of nitrogen to living things.
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Ucar: Cycles of the Earth System: Carbon Dioxide Sources and Sinks

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Learners will use a chemical indicator (BTB) to detect the presence of carbon dioxide.
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Ucar: Little Ice Age: Working With Indirect Evidence of Past Climates

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students explore the differences between direct and indirect evidence to understand how climate has varied through time.
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Ucar: Little Ice Age: Living During the Little Ice Age

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students brainstorm what the living conditions during the period known as the Little Ice Age (1350-1850) might have been like then study information about lifestyles, the economy, crop yields, and human and livestock mortality.
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Ucar: Cycles of the Earth System: Earth's Energy Cycle: Albedo

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students experiment and observe how the color of materials that cover the Earth affects the amounts of sunlight our planet absorbs.