Students consider weather conditions before, during, and after a tornado and build a model to visualize what is happening when a tornado occurs.
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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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This is Part 2 of Lesson 4 of Project Resilience curriculum.
Students present their claims about which environmental problem is a priority to address and their ideas about solutions to the problem.
In this classroom activity, students investigate how clouds change over time by making repeat observations of a section of sky and then representing their data graphically.
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Drip Drop! is a music video intended to engage young people in a conversation about climate and water.
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Students develop an understanding of the dynamic and variable nature of the Sun by comparing and contrasting images that vary with respect to time, scale, or technology, and share their findings with peers. The class discusses the implications of the Sun as a variable force of nature and brainstorms a list of questions that have been raised by the comparison of images. During the following class period, the instructor facilitates a slide show to further student understanding of the dynamic processes of our Sun and offer explanations to student questions.
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In this activity, students will analyze data sets that show how carbon dioxide varies through the atmosphere at different latitudes, altitudes, and different times of year.
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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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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 and instruments.
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This activity describes a field trip to Point-Aux-Chenes, LA that occurred during the Project Resilience pilot project.
Students visit locations of coastal protection and adaptation projects to observe how land loss impacts their community.