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Earth Sciences
Links:
*The
Earth Observing System Project (educator's visual materials)
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A series of extensively annotated space-based images of the earth
and sea, from NASA. Covers global climate change,
ozone
depletion, deforestation, and land use.
*A
Paleo Perspective on Global Warming
- This
site was developed to help educate, inform and highlight the importance
of paleoclimate research; as well as to
change.
Provided by NOAA.
*Global
Warming is a Problem: The varying impacts of global warming on a
global and local scales.
- Rising Waters: Coastal Flooding
- Health in a Warmer World
- Food and Water
- Global Warming's Impact on Nature
*A
Climate Change Atlas for 80 Forest Tree Species of the Eastern United
States
- "A
tremendous amount of information including distribution maps and tables
for different climate change scenarios,
life-history and disturbance attributes, ecological attributes,
forest type maps and sorted lists of species importance
values by state/county for different climate change scenarios and
more." A project of the USDA Forest Service,
Northeastern Research Station.
*NOVA
Online: Warnings from the Ice - "
Explore how Antarctica's ice has preserved the past – from
Chernobyl to the Little Ice Age – going back hundreds of
thousands of years, and then see
how the world's coastlines would recede if
some or all of this ice were to melt."
Lesson Plans:
*NOAA Greenhouse Gas educational materials
Teachers Guide
Student
Workbook
Answer
key
(from the NOAA website)
Middle School:
Acid Rain
A Home
Energy Audit
The
Formation of Fossil Fuels
Insulation:
Keeping Heat In or Out
Window
Treatments for Energy Savings
The Appliance
Explosion
(from: The Alliance to Save Energy)
High School:
Calculating
the Energy of Sunlight
Energy: The Issue of Renewable Energy
Energy
Efficient Homes
Generate
Your Own Hydropower
To
Conserve or Not To Conserve:
(from: The Alliance to Save Energy)
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