University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: The Greenhouse Effect
Students will learn how greenhouse gases temporarily trap heat within Earth's atmosphere, warming the planet via the greenhouse effect.
Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Human Impact: Melting Ice
Lesson plan examines the potential impacts of the warming of the atmosphere.
NASA
Space Math: Nasa Satellite "Sees" Carbon Dioxide [Pdf]
Using this map from NASA you can calculate the concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Solve the four problems and you will see how concentrations are spread across the globe and where there are regional differences.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Carbon Cycle
This lab uses a robust model of the carbon cycle to give students an intuitive sense for how carbon circulates through the atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, and crust. It allows them to experiment with how human input to the cycle might...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Methane
Brief article explores methane, a flammable gas found in the Earth's atmosphere.
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...
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...
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Global Warming: Graphs Tell the Story
Examine these graphs from the NOVA/ FRONTLINE Web site to see dramatic increases in the temperature of Earth's surface and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Looking for a Gas
This overview of gases explores what a gas is and how matter becomes a gas.
NASA
Nasa: Global Warming
This site introduces global warming, and the greenhouse effect and the gases contributing to it.
Other
The Greenhouse Effect: Natural and Amplified Warming
This concise resource presents a thorough drawing which simplifies the explanation of the greenhouse effect into six easy to understand steps.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Greenhouse Effect Teaching Box
This teaching box provides resources related to the greenhouse effect. It will help you teach how the greenhouse effect warms our planet.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Damage to the Environment
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...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Carbon Dioxide: The Heat Is On
In this activity, students will observe the effect of the gases resulting from a burned fossil fuel on the heat absorption of air and determine the ability of phytoplankton to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. This activity is...
Other
Breathing Earth
Breathing Earth layers data about rates of carbon dioxide emission along with birth and death rates onto a map of the world in a real-time simulation of one of the principal greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere, CO2.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Pollution Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about global efforts to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Introduction to Climate Change
This is designed to be an introductory instructional activity to climate change. It covers the importance of the atmosphere, the basics of the "Greenhouse Effect" and an introduction to the human contribution to increased greenhouse gases.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Why Does Climate Change?
Factors that have the power to change global climate can be natural, like volcanic eruptions and changes in solar energy, or caused by humans, like the addition of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: What Do Soda and the Oceans Have in Common?
Students will use soda to explore how carbon dioxide is able to dissolve into liquid. They will learn about Henry's law, which describes how the solubility of gas into liquids is dependent on temperature and develop hypotheses about how...
Climate Literacy
Clean: Carbon Footprint
In this instructional activity students investigate how much greenhouse gas (carbon dioxide and methane) their family releases into the atmosphere each year and relate it to climate change. To address this, students use the Environmental...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Co2: How Much Do You Spew?
Young scholars analyze the energy consumption of a hypothetical household to determine the amount of carbon dioxide they are adding to the atmosphere each year.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Understanding Air: Climate Change and Modeling Combustion
In this instructional activity, students learn about the components of air and the chemical reactions that release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and explore the connection between carbon dioxide, climate change, and environmental...
NASA
Nasa: Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics
Includes exhaustive information and a wealth of activities pertaining to aerodynamics and the physics of flight.
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