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Cornerstone Networks: Fourth Grade Science Lesson 1
This site, designed as a fourth-grade lesson plan, focuses on the earth's atmosphere with information on prevailing winds.
Oklahoma Mesonet
Oklahoma Climatological Survey: Heat Transfer
A discussion from the Oklahoma Climatological Survey of the thermal factors effecting the movement of air masses in the atmosphere. Numerous topics such as methods of heat transfer, latent heat, phase changes (including sublimation and...
Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Human Impact: Melting Ice
Lesson plan examines the potential impacts of the warming of the atmosphere.
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: The Habitable Planet: Energy Lab
Try and meet global energy demands by using alternative energy sources while keeping the carbon levels in the atmosphere down to acceptable levels. Simulator includes a data table available for download for student records.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Stabilization Wedges Game
A team-based exercise that teaches players about the scope of the greenhouse gas problem, plus technologies that already exist to dramatically reduce our carbon emissions and help steer Earth away from climate change.
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Arm Program's Education Center: Global Warming
An all purpose site with something for everyone. Learn about global warming and climate change, ask a scientist, take a quiz, or get a lesson plan!
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Made Clear: How Do Scientists Collect Data?
Find out how scientists continually collect information about the Earth and its atmosphere.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Little Ice Age: Where Have All the Glaciers Gone?
In this lesson, students examine images of alpine glaciers to develop an under-standing of how glaciers respond to climate change.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: El Nino Southern Oscillation
Learn how the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate fluctuation affects weather around the world.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Greenhouse S'mores
Students learn about climate change as they investigate how different materials are affected by a greenhouse effect. The lesson and accompanying PowerPoint can both be downloaded.
University of Oregon
University of Oregon: Coriolis Effect
This site from the University of Oregon provides a great explanation of the Coriolis Effect and then gives several chart type examples to help the understanding of it.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mind Bending Gps Occultations
Students learn about the remote sensing radio occultation technique and how engineers use it with GPS satellites to monitor and study the Earth's atmospheric activity. Students may be familiar with some everyday uses of GPS, but not as...
NOAA
Noaa: Atlantic Oceanographical and Meteorological Laboratory
The AOML researches oceanography, tropical meteorology, atmospheric and oceanic chemistry and acoustics in order to understand the physical characteristics of the ocean and atmosphere. Explore science in action!
NASA
Nasa: Weather
Though we live on the surface of the Earth, we actually live at the bottom of an ocean of air. Dynamic layers of air interact with the Earth's surface and the Sun's energy to produce the phenomenon of weather. The atmosphere is...
Other
Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Essentials of Weather
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.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: The Earth as a System
An overview of content about Earth and its atmosphere. The module was developed for middle school science teachers to provide background information for teaching the curriculum.
NOAA
Noaa: Pmel: El Nino Theme Page
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) sponsors this El Nino and La Nina resource site that features current and historic information about these weather systems with diagrams.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Biointeractive: Earth Viewer
Watch the earth change with this interactive app? What did Earth look like 250 million years ago? Or 1 billion years ago? Or 4.5 billion years ago? What was the climate like in the deep past? Find the answers with EarthViewer, an...
NOAA
Noaa: Weather Systems and Patterns
Imagine our weather if Earth were completely motionless, had a flat dry landscape and an un-tilted axis. This, of course, is not the case; if it were, the weather would be much different. The local weather that impacts our daily lives...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: The Greenhouse Effect
How do greenhouse gases affect the climate? Explore the atmosphere during the ice age and today. What happens when you add clouds? Change the greenhouse gas concentration and see how the temperature changes. Then compare to the effect of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Greenland Mass Variation Since 2002
Scientists study ice sheets because they influence weather and climate, playing a role in atmospheric and ocean circulation. Ice sheets can also have huge impacts on global sea levels because they store so much water. Explore this...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: The Greenhouse Effect
How do greenhouse gases affect the climate? Explore the atmosphere during the ice age and today.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Rising Co2! What Can We Do?
With this resource, students learn how much fossil fuel emissions have increased since 1600 by exploring a graph showing carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Then answer questions and read facts about climate change over the centuries....