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Ucar: Little Ice Age: Blooming Thermometers

For Teachers 5th - 9th
In this lesson plan, students develop an understanding of the relationship between natural phenomena, weather, and climate change, the study known as "phenology." In addition, they learn how cultural events are tied to the timing of...
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Ucar: The Sun Earth Connection: Sunspots and Climate

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Through graphing data and interpretation, students learn about sunspots and their effect on the climate of our planet.
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Ucar: The Sun Earth Connection: Exploring the Dynamic Nature of the Sun

For Teachers 5th - 9th
The unit contains lessons and a presentation that allow students to explore the Sun through images and investigate how magnetism from the Sun interacts with the Earth's magnetic field during space weather events.
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Ucar: Tornadoes Teaching Box

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this teaching box are resources to help students learn why and where tornadoes happen and how these weather events impact people's lives.
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Ucar: Clouds, a Teaching Box

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A collection of educational resources to bring cloud science to elementary students.
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Ucar: Energy Balance & Greenhouse Effect Teaching Box

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teaching box will help your students understand how conservation of energy determines the average temperature of a planet, including Earth. These activities also illustrate how the greenhouse effect prevents our home planet from...
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Sun Teaching Box

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teaching box contains lessons about features of the sun relevant to space weather prediction.
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Ucar: Climate & Water Teaching Box

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate water in a warmer world. This teaching box is filled with explorations and readings that help secondary students learn how climate change is affecting the water cycle.
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Ucar: Satellites and Weather Teaching Box

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Help your middle school student learn how satellites help make weather forecasts more accurate and how the COSMIC satellites collect data about the atmosphere by measuring bending radio waves.
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Ucar: Greenhouse Effect Teaching Box

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teaching box provides resources related to the greenhouse effect. It will help you teach how the greenhouse effect warms our planet.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: El Nino Teaching Box

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Teaching Box combines readings and activities to build student understanding of the changes that happen during an El Nino event.
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Ucar: Flash Floods Teaching Box

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teaching box is filled with explorations and readings that help secondary students learn the science of flash flooding.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Air Quality Teaching Box

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teaching box is filled with educational resources that help students explore the science of, and solutions to, air pollution.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Winter Weather Teaching Box

For Teachers K - 1st
A collection of hands-on educational resources about the science of winter weather for primary grade learners.
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Ucar: The Systems Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Systems thinking is an important concept across the Earth sciences. In this game, students either are a part of a system or serve as scientists tasked with observing and making sense of the system moving in front of them.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: The Very, Very Simple Climate Model Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through a simple online model, students learn about the relationship between average global temperature and carbon dioxide emissions while predicting temperature change over the 21st Century.
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Ucar: Catching Snowflakes

For Teachers K - 1st
Are you in a place where snow falls in winter? If so, try catching snowflakes. Then take a close look. Can you find two snowflakes that look alike?
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Ucar: Planet Magnet

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students use iron filings to explore the magnetic field around a magnet and record their observations then apply their experience with the magnet to understand the magnetic field around Earth.
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Ucar: Urban Heat: A New York City Exploration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students use a graph to make a hypothesis about the difference between urban heat in New York City streets and in Central Park.
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Ucar: Air on the Go

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe that air under high pressure will move toward a low-pressure area and certain objects in the air's path may move in the same direction.
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Ucar: Thermal Expansion of Water

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate how thermal expansion of seawater impacts sea level.
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Ucar: Considering Flood Risk

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students analyze and interpret data on a map of floodplains to assess risk of flooding and inform decision making that will mitigate the effects of flooding.
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Ucar: Weather and Climate Data Exploration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the relationship between weather and climate by graphing weather temperature data and comparing with climate averages.
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Ucar: Field Projects: Science in Action

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students gather information about atmospheric scientific field projects in order to understand how a research question about the Earth system can be answered by collecting data using many different research platforms...