Students investigate a physical model to explore how satellite data impacts weather monitoring and forecasting.
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Students learn about the urban heat island effect by investigating which areas of their schoolyard have higher temperatures. Then they analyze data about how the number of heat waves in an urban area has increased over time with population.
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Students explore how shadows work and why they change through the day as the Sun appears to move across the sky by comparing their shadows at different times of the day and modeling with shadow puppets to see how the location of a light source changes a shadow.
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In this activity, students will observe and measure the water given off through transpiration by a plant in a small terrarium.
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After reading about hurricanes and their impacts on the coast, students model conditions during a hurricane that produce storm surge and witness its impact on model coastlines.
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Students create a simple model to learn how a major volcanic eruption affects the atmosphere, and how the reduction in light to Earth’s surface contributes to climate change.
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In this computer-based virtual lab, students will learn about the layers of Earth's atmosphere by launching virtual weather balloons to collect temperature and pressure data at various altitudes.
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Students learn how making changes to our environment can help keep people safe and reduce the impacts of weather hazards as they explore a human-built pond that is sometimes dry and sometimes filled with floodwater.
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This is Part 2 of Lesson 3 of Project Resilience curriculum.
Students use data about Hurricane Michael and Hurricane Florence to investigate how hurricanes affect the Louisiana coast.
To understand how and why the climate has changed in the past scientists study evidence such as ice cores, coral reefs, and more. Learn about different types of paleoclimate proxies and how they tell the story of Earth's past climate.
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