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Handout
University of Kansas Medical Center

University of Kansas Medical Center: Respiratory System

For Students 9th - 10th
What do you know about the respiratory system? Check out this site to learn more about this fascinating body system. This resource features slides of the different parts of this system.
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Unit Plan
University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: Climate and Weather Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
This online lecture covers topics of air pressure, density and temperature.
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Website
Oklahoma Mesonet

Oklahoma Climatological Survey: Air Masses

For Students 9th - 10th
This Oklahoma Climatological Survey explores how air masses form, as well as the weather formations, which tend to appear on the edges of these masses in what is known as a front.
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Unit Plan
Columbia University

The Climate System: Atmospheric Forces, Balances, and Weather Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
The large scale horizontal flow of air in the atmosphere is driven by the imbalance of net radiation over the globe. This resource introduces us to the physical laws governing the horizontal motion of air. It also describes types of...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Fun With Air Powered Pneumatics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Working as engineering teams in this introductory pneumatics lab, students design and build working pneumatic (air-powered) systems. The goal is to create systems that launch balls into the air. They record and analyze data from their...
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Activity
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Lab 6: Air, Water, Land, & Life: A Global Perspective

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An investigation that is part of a series of lab lessons that expose students to Earth Systems through research, data, and visualizations. In this lab, students will follow the pathway of water on a big scale and a small scale down to...
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Unit Plan
Other

Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Essentials of Weather

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A suite of lessons focusing on the basic elements of climate and weather. Inquiry-based exploration of extreme weather events and the factors of weather including clouds, wind, air pressure, temperature, and the water cycle.
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Lesson Plan
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Cycles of the Earth System: Make Convection Currents!

For Teachers 5th - 9th
In this lesson, students will understand that temperature changes can cause density changes in water and in air.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Heating Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores the function of a heating system and how it works.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti Navigator System Humidity Makes Air Feel

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using data from the USA TODAY graphic,"Humidity makes air feel even hotter," students will explore quadratic and cubic functions to determine how well they model the relationship between air temperature and heat index. When the models...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti Navigator System Humidity Makes Air Feel

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using data from the USA TODAY graphic "Humidity makes air feel hotter" students will explore linear functions to determine how well they model the relationship between air temperature and heat index. When the model has been determined...
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Handout
Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Local and Regional Wind Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about regional and local wind systems, including information on changes in atmospheric pressure, thermal energy in the atmosphere, sea and land breezes, mountain and valley breezes, and monsoon winds.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Tom Swift and His Air Scout by Victor Appleton

For Students 5th - 9th
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Tom Swift and His Air Scout, an adventure multi-chapter book from 1919, written by the ghost writer Victor Appleton. In this book's quest, the main character...
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Handout
National Academy of Engineering

Greatest Engineering Achievements of 20th Century: Air Conditioning & Refrigerat

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about air conditioning and refrigeration in the 20th century. The resource consists of historical information, a timeline, and a personal essay by a key innovator.
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Bio Topics

Bio Topics: The Human Respiratory System

For Students 9th - 10th
Print this resource off as a worksheet or use it as a teaching tool. The site provides viewers with the ins and outs of the human respiratory system. Label diagrams, list the order of the route of air, note the mechanism of breathing,...
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Unit Plan
Other

Kean: Weather Systems [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
No scientific phenomena concern us as much as the daily evolution of weather systems. We live in a culture where weather, the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place,helps us define regional cultural variations. States such as...
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets: Ancient Times & the Greeks

For Students 9th - 10th
In ancient times only five planets were known: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Learn about Greek astronomer Ptolemy's theory for the solar system that was to survive for fourteen centuries.
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Website
NASA

Nasa: How Air Pressure Affects You

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from NASA offers a general overview of air pressure. Explores the concept through experiments and interactive games, as well as discussion questions.
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eBook
Other

Biology at Clermont College: The Respiratory System

For Students 9th - 10th
What do you know about the respiratory system? This site gives a detailed description of this integral human body system. Don't miss out.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: High and Low Pressure Systems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides an opportunity to sort high and low pressure system characteristics using a graphic organizer. Activote activity provides assessment of student learning.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Human Body Systems Vote

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart identifies major body systems and their functions and illustrates body systems that provide support and movement, transport, air/gas exchange, excretion, immunity, reproduction and...
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Article
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Ww2010: Atmospheric Pressure

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Illinois describes what air pressure is and how it is measured. Explains high and low pressure areas, isobars, and how pressure changes with height.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Building a Barometer

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the weather from a systems approach, learning how individual parts of a system work together to create a final product. Students learn how a barometer works to measure the Earth's air pressure by building a model out...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Factors of Weather Under Pressure

For Teachers K - 1st
How does air affect our weather? Students will conduct an experiment to demonstrate how air pressure and humidity work. Included are pictures and videos of the lesson plan in action, whole group and individualized instruction plans, and...