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Ucar: Why Earth Is Warming

For Students 9th - 10th
Over more than a century, the global average temperature warmed 1.5F (0.8C). Learn the science of why this has happened, and what the future holds.
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Article
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Ucar: Why Does Climate Change?

For Students 5th - 9th
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.
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Article
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: El Nino Southern Oscillation

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate fluctuation affects weather around the world.
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Lesson Plan
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Bubbles on Bottles

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars observe that a change in the temperature of air can impact the size of a bubble placed on a bottle that is cooled and/or heated.
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Lesson Plan
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Ucar: Modeling How Air Moves

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students use models to observe that air is a fluid that flows due to temperature-driven density differences.
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Ucar: The Sun

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the sun, the center of our solar system and the closest star to Earth.
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eBook
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: The 1991/1992 Drought

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research offers information on drought and global climate conditions, with an explanation of the trade winds.
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Activity
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Ucar: Make a Tornado

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site is provided for by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Make a tornado or a twister in a jar. The step by step directions give a clear description of how to make these items.
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Website
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Ucar: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out more about oceanography from space research.
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PPT
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Ucar: National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center: Snow Hydrology

For Students 9th - 10th
This slide show, developed by Don Cline, describes the effects and importance of snow. Topics covered are snowfall formation, snow cover, blowing snow, snow metamorphism, and snow modeling.
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Website
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Unidata: Conventional Weather Reports

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource talks about how the stations report their information. Several examples of how different universities compile the information are provided.
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Handout
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: High Altitude Observatory: Aristarchus of Samos (310 230 Bc)

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography and discussion of Aristarchus' theories provided here.
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Article
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Icy Precipitation

For Students 9th - 10th
Snowflakes are not the only type of icy precipitation. Find out about other types of ice that fall from the sky.
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Graphic
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Ucar: Cumulus Clouds

For Students 9th - 10th
View an image of cumulus clouds that are associated with fair or stormy weather.
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Interactive
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Atmospheric Chemistry Memory Game

For Students 9th - 10th
Choose a difficulty level. Then click on the tiles (squares) to reveal pictures of molecules. Try to match two pictures.
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Ucar: Project Skymath: Human and Match in the Infrared

For Students 9th - 10th
Simply a graphic of a human holding a match. Graphic is taken using a thermal camera showing heat distribution.