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10.23.2007    

This teacher guide created by AAAS is designed to give you a brief overview of Project 2061's recommendations for the relevant ideas and skills that all students should learn to understand the science of climate change, the process of scientific inquiry, and the trade-offs and constraints implicit in making choices about technology.

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10.17.2007    

This resource includes animations that illustrate how the greenhouse effect works.

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10.10.2007    

In this lesson, students use observations, activities, and videos to learn basic facts about the Sun. For example, students will understand that the Sun is a star and that its radiation provides Earth with heat and light. Students also model the mechanics of day and night and use solar energy to make a tasty treat.

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09.15.2007    

This hands-on Oceanography article describes an activity that helps students better understand the nonintuitive concept of diffusion and introduces them to a variety of diffusion-related processes in the ocean. As part of this activity, students also practice data collection and statistical analysis (e.g., average, variance, and probability distribution functions).

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09.14.2007    

An open source on-line textbook for upper-division college students and graduate students in oceanography, meteorology, and ocean engineering.

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07.21.2007    

Interactive maps of surface conditions can be clicked on this tool to create in-water profiles of salinity, temperature, or density. Sources include interpolated atlas data or actual measurements from the database.

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06.28.2007    

How can we use ice core data from the polar regions to investigate changes in Earth's climate past, present, and future? Students investigate climate changes going back thousands of years by graphing and analyzing ice core data from Greenland and Antarctica.

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06.28.2007    

The Curriculum Guide activities engage students in an exploration of the impacts of global climate change on ecosystems and natural resources, on community, and on individuals and society.

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06.28.2007    

In this lesson, students build upon their previous investigations of water and its different forms by learning about the water cycle. Students begin by reviewing previous knowledge about water and how it can freeze or turn into a gas depending on how low or high temperatures become. They then learn about the water cycle and its key processes that affect our lands, oceans, and atmosphere. The ongoing need for fresh-water conservation is also highlighted.

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06.28.2007    

Students will use a lab activity to describe the change in water level when the water is exposed to heat, differentiate between thermal expansion and melting snow and ice fields as they relate to sea level rise, and predict the impact of rising sea level on coastal areas.

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06.28.2007    

Students observe convection in water due to temperature differences and describe the pattern of water movement with words and pictures. During a class discussion students learn that the same process happens in both the oceans and the atmosphere.

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06.28.2007    

This multimedia CD-ROM provides a virtual microscope, build your own phytoplankton bloom, special topics such as upwelling, and background information in the study of primary productivity and phytoplankton in our oceans.

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01.17.2007    

Exploring the Environment™ (ETE) is a series of interdisciplinary, problem-based learning (PBL) modules for high school students. The project engages student teams in addressing real-world problems related to weather, population growth, biodiversity, land use patterns, volcanoes, water pollution, and global warming. Teams analyze remotely-sensed satellite images to come up with solutions to open-ended earth science problems--problems that real scientists are working on today in much the same fashion. In this module, students are asked to track and predict landfall of the next hurricane to threaten the United States.

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