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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Climate Connections

For Students 9th - 10th
NPR and National Geographic have joined forces to present the latest information on global warming. Reports speak to the causes, the signs, adaptations, profiles as well as solutions and what to do to help the situation.
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Unit Plan
Center for Educational Technologies

Nasa Classroom of the Future: Earth on Fire

For Students 9th - 10th
Information and activities looking at the impact of industrial and agricultural practices on global warming.
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New York Times

New York Times: Questions: Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] What is alarming to experts about the science and the politics surrounding Earth's rapidly warming temperatures? Small groups will have conversations about global warming with the prompts provided.
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Handout
NASA

Nasa Earth Observatory: Polar Ice Fact Sheet

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about polar ice, its effects on energy exchanges, how much surface area it covers, and how it is affected by global warming.
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Website
University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: The Ultimate Heating Season

For Students 9th - 10th
This article talks discusses the climbing temperature and how it is affecting our lives here on earth. It examines El-Nina, global warming, and the greenhouse effect.
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Handout
Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Physics & Chemistry: Methane

For Students 9th - 10th
Article explaining what methane is, its impact as a greenhouse gas on global warming, and natural and man-made sources of methane. (Published: April 30, 2010)
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Website
Other

Energy Star: Energy Star Kids

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Government sponsored resource helps individuals protect the environment through superior energy efficiency. Topics examined are climate change, global warming, and energy. The resource consists of games and activities, lesson plans,...
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Website
Other

Koshland Science Museum: Earth Lab: Degrees of Change

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information on all of the aspects of global warming, climate change, and the future of the earth.
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Article
DOGO Media

Dogo News: Week of 9 8 14 : Italian Adventurer to Live on Iceberg Until It Melts

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about how Alex Bellini plans to live on an iceberg in order to draw attention to the issue of global warming.
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Website
Other

Woods Hole Research Center

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information about the issue of climate change. Here you can learn about the greenhouse effect, the scientific evidence to support global warming, the culprits, potential outcomes, what the skeptics don't tell you, and...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hot Stuff!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students observe demonstrations, and build and evaluate simple models to understand the greenhouse effect and the role of increased greenhouse gas concentration in global warming.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Metamorphosis Stories of Change

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
The goal of this activity is for students to learn how to tell a story in order to make a complex topic (such as global warming or ozone holes) easier for a reader to grasp. Students realize that the narrative impulse underlies even...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Dinosaur Breath

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Through discussion and hands-on experimentation, students learn about the geological (ancient) carbon cycle. They investigate the role of dinosaurs in the carbon cycle and the eventual storage of carbon in the form of chalk. Students...
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Website
BBC

Bbc News: Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
This guide to climate change contains numerous BBC resources and scientific evidence for global warming.
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Handout
Simon Fraser University

Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Molecules and the Properties of Bonded Atoms

For Students 9th - 10th
College-level site goes into great detail about chemical bonding properties, as far as energies, structure, angles, and length. Infrared absorption, the greenhouse effect, and global warming are addressed to exemplify bond length...
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Climate Kids

For Students 3rd - 8th
Climate Kids thoroughly covers climate change and global warming. There are videos, games, puzzles (e.g., Cloud Picture Scrambles), interactives (e.g., the Climate Time Machine) and stories (e.g., Climate Tales). An educators' page links...
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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Prehistoric Climate Change and Why It Matters Today

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In a lesson in this issue of Smithsonian in Your Classroom, students do the work of a team of paleontologists studying a time of rising carbon dioxide and rapid global warming during the Eocene epoch. By examining fossils of tree leaves,...
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Handout
National Wildlife Federation

Natural Wildlife Federation: Live Green

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what you can do to reduce global warming in this succinct but informative resource. Several links are provided to related sources.
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Website
Nature Canada

Nature Canada: Climate Change Is Here.

For Students 9th - 10th
A resource that looks at the causes and effects of climate change on the world-at-large. Find out how climate change affects animals like birds and the polar bear. The site also offers strategies for how we can reduce global warming...
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Article
Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses greenhouse gases and how they affect climate change. [May 7, 2010]
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Lesson Plan
NASA

Nasa: Introduction to Earth's Dynamically Changing Climate

For Teachers 9th - 10th
NASA and PBS have joined forces to provide a lesson plan that will enable students to analyze data that documents a warming planet. Videos and other necessary documents for the lesson plan are provided. PBS TeacherLine also provides a...
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Website
Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Sila: Clue Into Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
The Arctic is where climate is changing at a faster pace than any other place in the world. Explore Water, Earth, Fire, and Air to investigate the basic elements that support all life and learn about the impact climate change is having...
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Handout
National Wildlife Federation

National Wildlife Federation: Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about what climate change is and how it impacts wildlife and ecosystems.
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Website
ProCon.org

Pro con.org: Is Human Activity Primarily Responsible for Global Climate Change?

For Students 9th - 10th
This site thoroughly covers the controversy over whether climate change is mainly caused by humans. Provides extensive background and quick facts, a long list of detailed arguments both for and against the question, videos, and a...

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