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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: Seasons and Temperature: Greenhouse Effect

For Students 3rd - 8th
Animated resource helps young researchers understand what global warming and the greenhouse effect mean.
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Lesson Plan
NOAA

Noaa: Ocean Explorer: The Methane Circus

For Teachers 5th - 9th
In this activity students will understand the events occuring during the Cambrian explosion. They will also begin to explain how methane hydrates contribute to global warming. Finally, they will discuss links between methane hydrates...
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Damage to the Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
The atmosphere has not always been the same. It has been much the same, but nevertheless now contains more nitrogen and oxygen, and less carbon dioxide, than it did when the earth first formed. Recently, the addition of greenhouse gases...
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Website
US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Climate Change

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn all the facts and figures about climate change.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Choosing Earth's Climate Future

For Students 9th - 10th
Students focus on the three interconnected choices global society faces as Earth's climate continues to change -- suffer, adapt, and mitigate -- to analyze and predict current and future impacts to Earth's systems. Using videos excerpted...
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Handout
NASA

Nasa Earth Observatory: Ocean and Climate Fact Sheet

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Earth's oceans and the effects that climate have had on the rising temperatures over the past one hundred years. Discover how the Earth's ocean and atmosphere are interlocked so that when one changes, the other is affected.
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Other

Student Activities: Greenhouse Warming, What Is It? [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan resource contains a series of activities that allow the students to learn about the issue of global warming. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
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Other

The Canary Project

For Students 9th - 10th
If you're looking for photographic evidence of global warming, then this is a good resource to check out. Photographs from around the world document the effects of global warming.
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Article
National Earth Science Teachers Association

Windows to the Universe: Warming of the Polar Regions

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the climate in the Polar regions and how it is affected by global warming. Links to related material.
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Article
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: The Costs of Tackling Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
From ABC News in Science, this article discusses results from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the costs in battling global warming.
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Article
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Did Climate Change Drive Katrina?

For Students 9th - 10th
From ABC News in Science, Alister Doyle's article deals primarily with the issue of global warming and the possibility of it as a cause for Hurricane Katrina.
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: The Atmosphere, the Ocean, and Environmental Change

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course that explores the physical processes the control Earth's atmosphere, ocean, and climate that is taught at Yale University. The course covers topics like clouds, rain, severe storms, regional...
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McREL International

Mcrel: Climate Change Naep Released Items [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A worksheet regarding the effects of global warming.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Rising Carbon Dioxide! What Can We Do?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Energy is used everyday coming from burning fossil fuels which releases carbon dioxide into the air. Discover what this has to do with global warming and how we can do our part to slow it down.
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Be an Energy Saver

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Find out what you can do to be an energy saver and help slow global warming.
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Handout
Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Precipitation: Drought in Eastern Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
Article discussing the occurrence of drought in Eastern Africa, and how it is likely to increase in frequency in future years due to global warming, putting enormous stress on countries such as Kenya and Ethiopia. (Updated July 12, 2012)
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Website
Other

Ecological Enterprises, Inc.: Climate Ark

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides links, a search tool, and an archive to climate change related news stories on topics including greenhouse effect, deforestation, alternative energy sources, global warming, and other environmental issues.
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Article
BBC

Bbc News: Rising Sea Levels: A Tale of Two Cities

For Students 9th - 10th
When people talk about the impact of rising sea levels, they often think of small island states that risk being submerged if global warming continues unchecked.
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Article
Other

Earth Day Canada: Eco Kids: Limit Food Waste

For Students 2nd - 6th
Each year, people throw out millions of tons of food that could still be eaten. That is a lot of food! Even when we compost food waste there are still some negative impacts. Resources like water and energy are used to grow and transport...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Be an Energy Saver

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Find out what you can do to be an energy saver and help slow global warming.
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Website
Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Modelling Climate Change in a Box

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students model climate change in an experiment. Provides directions and models to accomplish this experiment on global warming.
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Lesson Plan
Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Let's Do Science Programs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Site provides three lesson plans about global warming including one that discusses scenarios for future generations.
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Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: A Brief Guide to the Steps of the Carbon Cycle

For Students 4th - 8th
Outlines the steps for the movement of carbon along the carbon cycle through photosynthesis, food chains, being dissolved into the ocean, the decomposition of organisms, fossil fuel formation, industrial use of fossil fuels, carbon...
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Website
Other

Greenpeace: Stop Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Greenpeace offers an in-depth look at climate change (or global warming). Content includes a look at the cause of climate change, the scientific evidence that supports it, the problems that occur during climate change, foreboding...

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