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  • Online Extras: Understanding Climate Change

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    Online Extras: Understanding Climate Change If you have purchased Understanding Climate Change, you can view the accompanying student model examples and video online. These resources are for your personal use only and are not to be redistributed. To view the online extras, please type in the second word in the body…

  • Understanding Climate Change, Grades 7–12

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    Get help teaching one of the hottest topics in science with Understanding Climate Change, Grades 7–12. This nine-session module is written to be practical and accessible. It provides both extensive background and step-…

  • Climate Change From Pole to Pole: Biology Investigations

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    Climate Change From Pole to Pole: Biology Investigations offers timely, relevant, biology-based case studies and background information on how to teach the science of climate change. The six painstakingly researched and…

  • Earth’s Changing Climate

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    In 1896, Svante Arrhenius published the first model of the effects of industrial carbon dioxide (CO2) on Earth’s climate. Since the days of Arrhenius, scientists have moved from pencils to supercomputers. Calculations…

  • Climate Change Conference

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    In this session, students engage in a mock scientific conference to demonstrate another aspect of the work of scientists—sharing work with peers and seeking critical review. The mock conference provides an opportunity…

  • Climate Change Challenges

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    This session provides an opportunity for students to integrate the information they have learned from their research. They create charts or mind maps to anticipate the ripple effects from an aspect they have studied.…

  • Climate Change Solutions

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    This session is about hope. After students learned a great deal about the serious implications of a warming planet, it is important for them to have reasons to be hopeful and to see solutions that are being implemented…

  • Getting to the Core of Climate Change

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  • Biological Effects of Climate Change

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    How important is climate change—something that has occurred throughout Earth’s history? Can ecosystems tolerate the magnitude and rate of future change? How will other conservation threats interact with climate change?…

  • Exploring Biome Shifts With Climate Change

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    This high school Earth and space science and life science lesson has the following learning goals for students: use quantitative methods to identify the two to three most abundant tree species in a forested field plot (…

  • Crafting and Critiquing Climate Change Evidence Arguments

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  • Media Literacy in the Age of COVID and Climate Change

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  • Conducting Research on Current Climate Change Topics

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    This session leverages the power of student discovery, viewed through the lens of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), to support students’ awareness of the complex nature of a warming planet. Students begin…

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