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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Exploring Environmental Change

For Students 6th - 9th
Students explore the connections that can exist in a natural environment, and examine how changes to the environment, particularly those caused by human activity, can affect those connections.
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Lesson Plan
National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Serc: Modeling the Effects of Dam Removal on the Elwha River

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students are introduced to river systems and how they evolve and interact with the Earth's surface over time. They learn about the social and scientific issues surrounding the removal of the Glines Canyon Dam on the Elwha River and...
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Website
My Science Site

Life Systems: Cells, Tissues, Organs

For Students 9th - 10th
Extensive site for teachers provides some helpful resources that pertain to plant and animal cells. Includes a microscope diagram as well as plant, animal and pond labs. Also contains links to structures and mechanisms, matter and...
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Handout
Harvard University

Harvard University: The Sun

For Students 9th - 10th
Includes a brief history of the sun's development and its future. Also provides simple statistics, solar activities, and references.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: What Causes the Gulf Stream?

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA uses satellite imagery to illustrate the Gulf Stream's path and animations to explain how atmospheric phenomena cause it to move. [1:51]
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Lesson Plan
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Climate Discovery Teacher's Guide: Investigating Climate Present

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plans on the following: Carbon cycle: Carbon Dioxide Sources and Sinks, Nitrogen Cycle: Traveling Nitrogen, Ocean and Atmosphere: Make Convection Currents, Energy Cycle: Albedo
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Exploring Sugarloaf Cove: Geology of Lake Superior's North Shore

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students gather information about a restored wetland, pebble beach, and lava flows at Sugarloaf Cove on Minnesota's North Shore. Students in the field will make observations using field notebooks and digital media equipment while...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Tectonic Plate Movement in Alaska

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video adapted from KUAC-TV and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, learn how tectonic plate movement is responsible for building mountains, such as the Wrangell and St. Elias Mountains. 2m 16s
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Measuring Distance and Area in Satellite Images

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will select from a series of Satellite images of the Aral Sea from 1973 through 2003 and will measure changes in the area of the lake and distance across the lake over time.
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Website
Other

Nrdc: Clean Water and Oceans

For Students 9th - 10th
What prompted congress to pass the Clean Water Act? Has this legislation been successful? The Natural Resources Defense Council offers information on fresh and ocean waters, pollution control, conservation, and more.
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Article
National Earth Science Teachers Association

Windows to the Universe: The Nitrogen Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting information on the Nitrogen Cycle as it relates to the Earth system.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Albedo and Global Warming

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive activity adapted from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, learn about Earth's albedo (the ratio of reflected vs. incident solar radiation), how pollution alters albedo, and how ice-albedo feedback may accelerate...
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Website
Geography 4 kids

Geography4 kids.com: What Happens When Two Plates Meet?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Different events occur when two parts of the earth shift. Highlighted in this resource are details of faults, dips, slips, folds, and strike slips.
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Handout
Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Chemistry in the Environment

For Students 5th - 7th
This brief overview of the chemistry of the Earth gives students an idea of what environmental chemists might study.
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Website
Geography 4 kids

Geography4 kids.com: When the Ground Moves

For Students 3rd - 8th
Understand the process of an earthquake.
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Article
Nature Research

Nature Education: Studying and Projecting Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
A model organizes what we think we know about something in order to predict how it might behave in the present, future, or past as well as how it might respond to external influence. Models are especially useful when direct, controlled...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers:biodome

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Investigate biological systems that support plant life by constructing a self-sufficient, enclosed environment for growing plants.
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Website
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: The Wind Swe Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a technical site from MIT. It provides data and information from satellites which observe solar winds. Provide 3-D models of the heliosphere and uptodate plots of solar wind data.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: La'ona De Wilde: Environmental Biologist

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video profile produced for Teachers' Domain, meet La'ona DeWilde, an environmental biologist who integrates her Athabascan heritage and her Western scientific training to help remote Alaskan villages address environmental issues.
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Website
Other

Earthworks: Jobs

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you interested in an environmental career? Explore current environmental job opportunties in the Earthworks database.
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Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Schools Online:knowing Your World: Water Rich Water Poor

For Students 3rd - 5th
"Water Rich Water Poor" emphasizes the importance of water conservation and provides suggestions for conserving water.

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