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Nasa: Ozone Hole Watch Unit PlanNasa: Ozone Hole Watch Unit Plan
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NASA
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9th - 10th
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Unit Plan

Nasa: Ozone Hole Watch

Curated by ACT

You may have heard of CFCs and how harmful they can be to the ozone layer, but do you know the process that chlorine undergoes to contribute to this destruction? NASA explores this topic and has charted the depletion of the ozone since 1979. They present this visually engaging look at our current state of exposure though still images and videos.

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Concepts

ozone depletion

Additional Tags

ozone, ozone hole, ozone layer, ozone measurements, cfc, cfs's

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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