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Alberta Environment: Focus on Climate Change [Pdf]
This article explains what climate change is, what causes it, why it poses such a threat and some of the things we can do to combat it.
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1 Sky: The Basics of Climate Change
Understand the basics of climate change and how it affects our planet. Learn ways to take action that can impact how our government deals with climate change
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Personal Website: Richard Treves: Lesson Plans
Study climate change with Google Earth, explore glaciers in the Himalayas, and learn how to avoid lava destroying a home in Hawaii with these three expert-developed lesson plans.
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Libcom: Climate, Class, and the Neolithic Revolution
This is the first in a series of articles about food under global warming. This article takes a long view of the relationship between climate, agriculture, and class society.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Earth Day Network: Healthy Earth, Sick Earth [Pdf]
Madeline Kaplan's book, Planet Earth Gets Well, introduces a lesson focused on climate change. Students will discover ways to keep Earth healthy.
US Geological Survey
Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation: The Forces Are With Us: Natural Forces
A collection of science activities that focus on natural forces that affect Lake Pontchartrain Basin. Students will understand how global climate change relates to storm events, subsidence, and erosion. Background information on...
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: Antarctica Warms, Which Threatens Penguins
Describes the threat of climate change in the Antarctica to emperor penguins by affecting the ice sheets where penguin breeding grounds are located.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Climate and Civilization: The Maya Example
Learners 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...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Global Warming Graph Analysis
Young scholars interpret a variety of graphs from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports learning the details of climate change.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Greenhouse Effect Lab
Students measure temperature changes inside soda bottles filled with CO2 and air as incandescent light is shined on them to model the Greenhouse Effect.
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Carbon Detectives: Find Out About Climate Change
Learn about climate change with video clips and interactive animations.
PBS
Pbs: Global Warming
This site provides an in-depth exploration from PBS into the international issue of global warming. Find out why scientists believe the global climate is changing, and explore actions certain governments have taken to prevent this...
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Environmental Defense Fund: Tips to Fight Global Warming
Read and take action to fight global warming with these 6 tips, complete with links and other climate change resources.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Dendrochronology Trees: Recorders of Climate Change
Learners discover how tree age can be determined by studying the rings, and how ring thickness can be used to deduce times of optimal growing conditions. Then they investigate simulated tree rings applying the scientific method to...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Hitting Home: Climate Change in Colorado [Zip]
Students examine and interpret varied observational data sets to determine whether climate change is occurring in Colorado.
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International Institute for Sustainable Development: Catalyzing Change in Canada
The International Institute for Sustainable Development, or IISD, provides information on all aspects of sustainable development. Here one can find more information on how the IISD is helping Canada deal with climate change. Find climate...
Climate Literacy
Clean: Greenhouse Gas in a Bottle Demonstration
A simple demonstration that is quick and easy to setup and provides dramatic evidence of the effect on temperature of an atmosphere with increased carbon dioxide. [4 min]
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Tulip Gardens
Track tulip growth as the season changes from winter to spring. See how temperature, rainfall, and sunshine affect growth and help scientists look for patterns of climate change.
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Wisconsin K 12 Energy Education Program (Keep)
The mission of KEEP is to improve energy education in Wisconsin's schools. It provides teachers access to resources, activities and web support for many hands-on lessons for all grade levels.
Geography 4 kids
Geography4 kids.com: Variety Is the Spice of Climate
To every thing there is a season. Understand the role climate plays in the change of seasons across the United States.
Scientific American
Scientific American Slideshow: Threatened Wildlife in the Here and Now
Learn about species that are presently facing endangered status in North America as climate change affects each in different ways in this slideshow from Scientific American.
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Polar Bear Ancestry Traced to Ireland
See five close-up images of polar bears as part of a study of the relationship between bear ancestry and historical climate change.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Week of 3 10 14: Freshwater Crisis
Article reports on ways in which climate change is affecting freshwater.
NOAA
Noaa: National Climatic Data Center: Groundhog Day
Find background about Groundhog Day and the folklore involved. Look through the charts that show how closely Punxsutawney Phil's predicitions align with the actual weather.