Using language arts, math, and measurement skills, elementary students explore rainfall data and learn how to measure precipitation through an interactive story.
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The atmosphere stretches far above Earth's surface, all the way to the limits of space. How do we study the atmosphere and what is happening within it near the ground, at different altitudes above our heads, and over both land and ocean?
Students examine "pollen" in simulated lake bottom sediment core samples to infer past climate in the vicinity of the lake.
This web series tells the story of the lengths people went to in order to explore the atmosphere and the technologies they used to get high in the sky and make measurements.
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Students explore the relationship between weather and climate by graphing weather temperature data and comparing with climate averages.
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One morning, six-year-old Ying-Hwa Kuo woke on his family's rice farm in Tai Chung, in west-central Taiwan, to a world transformed. A typhoon—the name for hurricanes in the Northwest Pacific—had brought intense rain and flooding.
Students receive data about tree ring records, solar activity, and volcanic eruptions during the Little Ice Age (AD 1350–1850). By comparing and contrasting time intervals when tree growth was at a minimum, solar activity was low, and major volcanic eruptions occurred, they draw conclusions about possible natural causes of climate change.
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Students will investigate how different surfaces of the Earth reflect and absorb heat and apply this knowledge to real-world situations.
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Our climate is warming, which is changing the physical environments that support living systems. In many places, environments are changing so fast that plants and animals cannot keep up, endangering entire ecosystems.
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Extreme Events and Human Health