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Climate Literacy

Clean: Going for a Spin Making a Model Steam Turbine

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore how various energy sources can be used to cause a turbine to rotate and then generate electricity with a magnet.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Car Quest

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will determine the environmental effects of existing cars and a fleet consisting of their dream cars. They compute how many tons of heat-trapping gases are produced each year, how much it costs to fuel the...
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Other

How to smile.org: Build a Wind Turbine

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A step-by-step guide to build a wind turbine. Using their wind turbine, learners test how much energy is created by using a variety of wind blades and wind speeds.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: The Climate Business Game

For Students 9th - 10th
CEO2 is a role-playing game that helps students explore different business strategies in order to maximize profit, significantly cut CO2 emissions, and develop low-carbon products by 2030.
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill Ryerson: Human Impacts on Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
Take this ten question quiz on human impacts on ecosystems. The quiz is multiple choice.
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NASA

Climate Kids: Paper or Plastic?

For Students 3rd - 6th
Have you ever been in the grocery store and you were asked for paper or plastic? Discover the pros and cons of either choice, and then ultimately decide which might be the best.
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Other

Wuppertal Institute: Towards a Global Energy Transformation [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This study analyzes the deepening crisis in the availability of global energy resources and looks at ways to transform how we produce and use energy in order to create a sustainable development model. They state that "Socially just and...
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Other

Nrdc: Composting Is Way Easier Than You Think

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The NRDC breaks down how to easily achieve at-home composting. Find out what can and cannot be composted.
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Other

Union of Concerned Scientists: Science for a Healthy Planet and Safer World

For Students 9th - 10th
The official website for Union of Concerned Scientists provides information on environmental issues and suggestions on actions people can take to curb environmental harm.
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University of Groningen

American History: Essays: Second Bank of the United States

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a short description of the Second Bank of the United States. It contains a part of President Andrew Jackson's veto of the renewal bill for the Bank's charter.
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Other

Student Energy: Alternative Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides the definition of alternative energy and how it differs from the definition of renewable energy. Includes a list of links to some excellent resources.
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Other

Manitoba Agricultural Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Agriculture plays an important part of Manitoba's history, economy, environment and future. The Manitoba Agricultural Museum offers visits to its site in rural Manitoba, and through this website explains important aspects of farming in...
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University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: Human Environmental Interactions [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Inspired by Hemispheres' 2004 Teachers' Summer Institute, People and Place: Human-Geographic Relations, this curriculum unit was designed to address human adaptation to and modification of the environment. How have humans adjusted to...
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Other

Mackenzie Gas Project: About Natural Gas

For Students 9th - 10th
This gives a brief explanation of what natural gas is and tells how it is formed, how we harness it and how much it takes to heat a home or an urban area.

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