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Interactive Story Map: Return from Catastrophe: Moore, Oklahoma

On May 20, 2013, a devastating tornado occurred in Moore, Oklahoma. How did the people of Moore work to rebuild their community?
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Interactive Story Map: Twister Dashboard: Exploring Three Decades of Violent Storms

Students investigate three decades of tornado data through an interactive Story Map from Esri.
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Jigsaw group research on the 2013 Colorado Floods

Students research the 2013 Colorado floods, present the information they find, and summarize all information presented.
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It's Just a Phase: Modeling the Phases of Water

In this activity, students will construct models of the arrangement of water molecules in the three physical states. Students will understand that matter can be found in three forms or phases (solid, liquid, and gas).
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Demonstrating the Thickness of Atmospheric Layers

Students will observe two scale models of Earth's atmosphere and the layers of the atmosphere to gain an appreciation for the size of the atmosphere compared to the planet Earth.
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Climate Variability Card Shuffle

Students use a deck of cards to model climate variability and longer-term trends in climate.
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Modeling How Air Moves

In this activity, students use models to observe that air is a fluid that flows due to temperature-driven density differences.
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Analyzing Tree Ring Data Sequences

Align tree ring cores of different ages to build up a long timeline of past climate data in this hands-on activity.
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Mixing Up Parts Per Million (and Billion)

Students follow steps to dilute a colored dye in water until the dye is one part per million. Then students consider atmospheric gases that are present in trace quantities, like ozone, and discuss how pollutants can be hazardous at very small concentrations.
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Comparing Planetary Gases

Use jelly beans to compare the compositions (amounts of different gases) of the atmospheres of Earth, Mars, and Venus.
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