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Handout
Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Hot Summer Days Ozone Action

For Students 3rd - 5th
Easy to read and understand site from Environmental Education for Kids. Good and bad ozone explained and illustrated. Complete with glossary and Quizzler at the end.
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Unit Plan
Center for Educational Technologies

Nasa Classroom of the Future: Environment Module: Uv Menace

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information and activities for classes to learn more about ozone depletion and UV radiation.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Battling for Oxygen

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Using gumdrops and toothpicks, students conduct a large-group, interactive ozone depletion model. Students explore the dynamic and competing upper atmospheric roles of the protective ozone layer, the sun's UV radiation and harmful...
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eBook
Other

University of Wollongong: The Hole Story

For Students 9th - 10th
Professor Beder's 1992 book describes the problems and causes of ozone depletion. Find out how ozone depletion affects the environment.
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Unit Plan
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Ozone in the Troposphere

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A detailed overview of the ground-level ozone, tropospheric ozone, with explanations about how it is called the bad ozone and how it varies day to day. All information is reinforced through pictures, graphs, and learning activities....
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Reducing Ozone Destruction

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How banning CFCs helped protect the ozone layer.
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Handout
US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Basic Ozone Layer Science

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provides general information about ozone damage.
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Reducing Ozone Destruction Study Guide

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about efforts to fight ozone depletion in the atmosphere. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The No Zone of Ozone

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore the causes and effects of the Earth's ozone holes through discussion and an interactive simulation. In an associated literacy activity, students learn how to tell a story in order to make a complex topic (such as global...
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Article
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Volcano Eruptions Deplete Ozone

For Students 9th - 10th
From ABC News in Science, this March 2002 article describes the ozone depletion from volcanoes. According to research, a hole in the ozone layer could form over the North Pole due to one more major eruption.
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Handout
NASA

Nasa Earth Observatory: Ozone

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover what ozone molecules are made of and the important role ozone plays in the safety of humans. In this article, learn about scientists rating ozone levels and the harm linked with "bad" ozone levels.
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Lesson Plan
University of California

Graphing Stratospheric Ozone

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan that will help teachers learn more about ozone and guide young scholars in a graphing stratospheric ozone. The lesson plan includes four parts, an introduction, links to ozone chemistry and two links for graphing activities.
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Website
American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Mario J. Molina, ph.d.

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the life of Mario J. Molina, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the danger that chlorofluorocarbons presented to the Earth's ozone layer long before anyone else recognized it. Includes a profile, videos,...
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Website
Other

Ecology

For Students 9th - 10th
Humans are having a negative effect on the ecology of Antarctica. Get the facts on krill harvesting, global warming, and ozone depletion.
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Handout
Government of Alberta

Alberta Environment: Focus on the Ozone Layer [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explains what the ozone layer is, why it is important, and how we can help to slow down its depletion from the atmosphere.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Nasa: Ozone Hole Watch

For Students 9th - 10th
You may have heard of CFCs and how harmful they can be to the ozone layer, but do you know the process that chlorine undergoes to contribute to this destruction? NASA explores this topic and has charted the depletion of the ozone since...
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Unit Plan
European Union

Environment for Young Europeans: Air

For Students 3rd - 8th
Part of a larger site on the environment in general, the site concentrates on air, air pollution, and climate change. From the European Union.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Environment for Kids: Ozone Layer Depletion

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the depletion of the ozone layer. How CFCs have cause a hole in the ozone. For teachers and students.
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Website
Community Learning Network

Community Learning Network: Global Warming/climate Change Theme Page

For Students 9th - 10th
A large collection of web resources on the topics of global warming and climate change. Some links may be broken, as the site is no longer actively maintained.
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Unit Plan
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese Real Time Data Project:s Air Pollution: What's the Solution?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This comprehensive site on air pollutions, sponsored by the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education at Stevens Institute of Technology, includes worksheets, knowledge-assesment tools, and detailed instructions.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Air Pollution and Illness

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how air pollution affects human health.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Effects of Air Pollution on Human Health

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How air pollution affects human health.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Composition of the Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the gases that the atmosphere is made out of.
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Other

North Carolina Deq: The Adventures of Clair & Cam [Pdf]

For Students K - 1st
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality offers the PDF "The Adventures of Clair & Cam" a K-5 Curriculum & Activity Guide which provides air quality education videos, lessons, activities, and music. Requires Adobe...

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