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Ucar: Blue Skies and Red Sunsets

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Find out how some wavelengths of light are scattered more than others producing blue skies and red sunsets.
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Ucar: Cycles of the Earth System: Make Convection Currents!

For Teachers 5th - 9th
In this lesson, students will understand that temperature changes can cause density changes in water and in air.
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Ucar: Torrents, Droughts, and Twisters Oh My!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students review what scientists know and what they're working to understand about the relationship between extreme weather events and climate change.
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Ucar: Clouds, Weather, and Climate Teaching Box

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Teaching Box combines hands-on activities, data analysis, and discussion that help high school students consider how weather can affect cloud types and how cloud types can affect climate.
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Ucar: The Nature of Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teaching box engages middle and high school students in the Nature of Science - what it is and what it isn't - along with activities to ensure engagement and enhance science understanding explicitly.
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Ucar: Sun and Space Weather Image Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
Images and diagrams of the Sun, solar phenomena such as sunspots and flares, space weather, Earth's magnetosphere and upper atmosphere, the aurora, and more.
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Ucar: Atmosphere Images

For Students 9th - 10th
Photos, diagrams, and other images related to climate and climate change.
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Ucar: Energy Choices and Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Help the Joules family make choices that keep their greenhouse gas emissions low.
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Ucar: Elementary Globe: The Colors of the Seasons

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will search for all the colors in a natural place then repeat at different times of year and compare.
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Ucar: Elementary Globe: All Year Long

For Teachers K - 1st
In this activity, kids record their observations of an outdoor environment in a science journal. The spot they record could be close to home or seen out a window.
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Ucar: Climate Postcards

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners learn about the climate zones of the world by interpreting data and then identifying climate zones described in postcards.
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Ucar: Tracking Hurricane News

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students read news articles about Hurricane Irene, present information with classmates, and construct a timeline to describe the hurricane's story over time and across geographic area, exploring what happened, how people were affected,...
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Ucar: The Sun Earth Connection: The Magnetic Sun

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Learners will build a simple version of a magnetometer and use it to discover the types of areas of the Sun that have very strong magnetic fields. Students will then describe what the types of features associated with the Sun's strongest...
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Ucar: Plugged in to Co2

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students analyze the energy consumption of a household appliance and estimate the amount of carbon dioxide it is adding to the atmosphere each year.
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Ucar: Planning a Disaster Relief Mission: Storyboarding

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students plan a disaster relief mission employing a UAV (drone) by filling in a comic book-like storyboard of engineering design steps.
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Ucar: Little Ice Age: Dark Skies: Volcanic Contribution to Climate Change

For Teachers 5th - 9th
In this activity, students learn how volcanic eruptions affect global climate.
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Ucar: Serial vs. Parallel Processing Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn the difference between parallel processing and serial processing computer systems by racing to complete a task of stacking blocks.
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Ucar: Elementary Globe: Earth System in a Bottle

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
If you have seeds at home, try this activity to help kids learn what a seed needs to grow. Students will create experimental conditions in terrariums to study what plants need to live. They will learn about the importance of the...
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Ucar: Virtual Ballooning to Explore the Atmosphere Activity

For Students 9th - 10th
In this computer-based virtual lab, students will learn about the layers of Earth's atmosphere by launching virtual balloons to collect temperature and pressure data at various altitudes. Given a limited number of balloon flights,...
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Ucar: Elementary Globe: To Spread or Not to Spread

For Students K - 1st
Students will explore the difference between the three types of contrails. Then they will make observations of contrails outside, record their observations, and then make follow-up observations 15 minutes later to see how the contrails...
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Ucar: Tree Rings Simulation Dendrochronology

For Students 9th - 10th
Tree rings help scientists learn about past climates by decoding tree ring patterns. Use this interactive simulation to learn how tree ring patterns tell us about climate conditions in the past.
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Ucar: Tree Rings and Climate Timeline Simulation

For Students 9th - 10th
In this online interactive activity, you will align tree ring cores to build a long chronology of climate history.
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Ucar: Kids Crossing: Living in the Greenhouse

For Students 3rd - 8th
This web site provides information about the global climate, Earth's cycles, the greenhouse effect and greenhouse gases, ancient climate changes, and climate events and news.
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Ucar: Measuring Density by Bending Light

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students observe how different materials bend light, and how we can infer the nature of the material based on the amount it bends light rays.