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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Above the Clouds: Telescopes on Mauna Kea

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from First Light explains why the highest peak in the Pacific, Mauna Kea, is an ideal site for astronomical observations. Featured are new telescope technologies that allow astronomers to explore the universe...
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Breathing Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is the Biosphere?

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explains that as our knowledge of life on the planet evolves, we've come to use the word biosphere as a way of explaining the entire intertwined network of life on Earth. This concept combines an understanding of geology,...
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Idaho State University

Global Wind Systems [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A great description of the global scale circulation and heat energy. Discusses a single-cell model, a three-cell model, jet streams and more.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Whole Body Ozone Chemistry

For Teachers 6th - 9th
In this activity, learners will play the roles of various atoms and molecules to help them better understand how ozone is formed in the earth's stratosphere.
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Center for Educational Technologies

Cotf: Plate Tectonics

For Students 3rd - 8th
Plate Tectonics provides geology with a comprehensive theory that explains how the Earth works.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Stratosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the properties of the stratosphere.
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Antarctic Geological Drilling: Environmental Literacy Framework Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An impressive collection of lessons on climate science and climate change. The entire book can be downloaded. As well, each lesson has its own page with some combination of background information, PowerPoints, images, maps, glossaries,...
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Ozone Molecule

For Students 9th - 10th
This diagram shows a 3D computer generated image of the triatomic molecule known as ozone. Ozone is an allotrope that contains three oxygen atoms. The ozone layer found in the upper atmosphere helps protect the Earth against potentially...

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