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Need: the National Energy Education Project has developed detailed curriculum on a variety of energy sources and created versions for all grade levels
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Facing the Future's Climate Change: Connections and Solutions for Grades 6-8 inspires students to think critically about climate change and collaborate to devise solutions.
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| NOVA Labs: Learn how to predict solar storms in the sun lab, design renewable energy systems in the energy lab; and track major storms in the cloud lab. |
Soils, Systems, and Society is a new teaching module that consists of course discussions, map analysis, hands-on soil investigations, concept mapping of Earth systems, and the development of a standards-aligned K-8 Soils, Systems, and Society Kit.
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Getting the Picture:Our Changing Climate Innoative online multimedia tool for climate education. Includes unique archives of media, film, and photography.
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WWF's Climate Witness Project: Stories of people from across the world who have witnessed climate change.
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PBL Projects: Resources include lessons and activities designed by teachers exploring and collaborating with researchers
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NASA's Climate Kids: NASA has developed a separate website that focuses of air, water, ocean, energy and climate and includes activities for students, as well as a teacher's section.
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BetterLesson: Has partnered with outstanding educators across the country to create over 16,000 rich lessons.
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PolarTREC: Contains citizen science websites os students can be a part of research
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Steve Spangler Science: Register to receive free accress to library of science experiments
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Mass Audubon: Provides programs for schools groups and resources for teachers
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Climate Central: Research and reports about the science and impacts of climate change
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Zooninverse: Contains citizen science websites os students can be a part of research
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Conservation Law Foundation
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Earth Labs: A National Model for Earth Science Lab Courses
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CLEAN Collection: A searcheable. reviewed collection of classroom ready educational resoruces
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GLOBE Teacher's Guide: GLOBE provides five scientific investigation areas, each providing background information, measurement protocols and learning activities.
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Biomimicry: This site shows how nature can teach important principles and inspire new technolgies.
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Alliance for Climate Education: Resources and lessons for teaching climate change
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Dr. Jeff Master's Wunderblog
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Skeptical Science: Explaining climate change science & rebutting global warming misinformation
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Carbon Footprint Calculator: Students can measure thier carbon footprint by calculating how much greenhouse gas their activities produce.
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NOAA's ClimateWatch Magazine: collection of resources pertaining to climate change.
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Journal of Emerging Investigators: A scientific journal for middle and high school students
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Bob Ackley's blog on natural gas etc.
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Science Bob: A site geared toward hands-on science. There are sections for science fair resources, a number of experiments that students can perform at home, and an Ask Science Bob feature. The site also has lesson plans for teachers.
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The Challenger Center: Includes lesson plans and an interactive climate modeler approproate for middle school classrooms.
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Climate Generation: Free downloads of lcimate curriuclum units for a range of grade levels.
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Great Earth Science Website: Has great animations. Is geared to middle school.
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Education World: Tons of information ranging from professional development to lesson plans on any subject.
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PBS Learning Media is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners.
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IBM Try Science is your gateway to experience the excitement of contemporary science and technology through on and offline interactivity with science and technology centers worldwide.
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NASA for Students in grades 5-8 offers a number of games, activities, art and stories.
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization encourages international peace and universal respect by promoting collaboration among nations.
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Discovery School: This website offers various resources and activities in math and science, including links to over 700 homework help sites, study tools, games, clipart, a search engine for information about specific topics, and various learning explorations.
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NSTA - National Science Teachers Association: Site has extensive collection of information about the teaching of science. Requires a membership except for selected articles and the Grab Bag.
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Science "Snacks" from Exploratorium: Miniature science exhibits that teachers can make using common, inexpensive, and easily available materials.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science: Resources for teachers, parents, and students.
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How Stuff Works: The science sections of How Stuff Works contain information on various topics in earth science, engineering, life science, physical science, space, and military.
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Arbor Scientific has a CoolStuff newsletter with lots of activities.
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Young Voices on Climate Change is a film series featuring young people who are making a difference! They are shrinking the carbon footprint of their homes, schools, and communities.
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Eight Must Have Charts Summarize the Evidence for a "Human Fingerprint" on Recent Climate Change
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American Chemical Society: Look for the Educator and Student Tab all the way through the collegiate level.
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Carolina Biological also has a site with ideas for classroom activities.
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Sea and Sky is your one-stop source for all things related to the oceans, seas, and space exploration; features information, games, images, news, and much, much more.
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Building Big - PBS Television Series: Find information on building projects like skyscrapers, domes, and tunnels.
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Design Squad Nation: Projects, video, games, and blog based on the PBS series, Design Squad.
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Teach Engineering lessons for k-12 engineering classes searching by grade and topic.
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West Point Bridge program: This software will introduce you to engineering through an authentic, hands-on design experience. It provides the tools to model, test, and optimize a steel highway bridge, based on realistic specifications, constraints, and performance criteria.
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National Science Digital Library is a compendium of teaching resources searchable by grade, topic, and type of resoruce.
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eGFI - Dream Up the Future: Presented by ASEE and its partners, eGFI is a resource available for students and teachers to learn about engineering.
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Engineer Your Life is a guide to engineering for high school girls.
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WatchKnowLearn: videos for kids to learn from - organized by subject.
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Science House Foundation: video experiments for science classrooms.
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This is Climate Change: a photography project to document and publicize the real impacts of climate change.
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Alaska Native Perspectives on Earth and Climate: collection of resources on Teacher's Domain.
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Concord Consortium Science modules for Middle School incldue all aspects of science, including energy efficiency and the greenhouse effect.
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Sponsored by the NSF GK-12 Program
