This Yellowstone National Park website offers an online tour of the Norris …
This Yellowstone National Park website offers an online tour of the Norris Geyser Basin. Prominent geysers, fumaroles, and hot springs are highlighted with photos and information concerning their eruption patterns and relation to other geothermal features. Similar tours of the Old Faithful area, the Fountain Paint Pots, the Mammoth Hot Springs, and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone are also available online.
SYNOPSIS: In this lesson, students make personal connections to fire, understand how …
SYNOPSIS: In this lesson, students make personal connections to fire, understand how climate change is making wildfires worse in Oregon and across the globe, and create a wildfire solution presentation to promote a prevention or preparation strategy.
SCIENTIST NOTES: This lesson allows students to learn about the causes of wildfire and how they are induced by climate change. It also highlights locations at risk to wildfires in Oregon and ways students can develop tactics to promote effective management of wildfire events. The archival data on wildfires will enable them to interpret wildfire hotspots for contingency planning. This lesson is very engaging and is recommended for classroom use.
POSITIVES: -This lesson can be taught in a language arts class or a science class. -Students make a personal connection to fire before learning about climate change’s impact on wildfires. -Students promote a prevention or preparation strategy to share with their class, school, or community.
ADDITIONAL PREREQUISITES: -It would be helpful for students to have some background knowledge of what makes fire burn. The resources Heat and Fuel and Oxygen can provide more context for students. -The data in the sortable table titled, Oregon Biggest Fires, comes from this article. You can access the data by clicking, “Download the data.”
DIFFERENTIATION: -If teachers want to provide more context on active fires in Oregon, this map provides up-to-date information. -This video can provide additional information and also serve as inspiration for students to create their own presentations.
In this experiential activity, students demonstrate to themselves the effect of the …
In this experiential activity, students demonstrate to themselves the effect of the optic disc, or blind spot, inherent to the optic nerve entering the posterior of the eye (bulbus oculi). This resource is from PUMAS - Practical Uses of Math and Science - a collection of brief examples created by scientists and engineers showing how math and science topics taught in K-12 classes have real world applications.
This article profiles Gerrit Vyn and Martha Fischer, sound recordists with the …
This article profiles Gerrit Vyn and Martha Fischer, sound recordists with the Macaulay Library, Cornell University, and their expedition to Nunavut, Canada, to record male sanderling vocalizations.
On this site, through a variety of activities, you can learn about …
On this site, through a variety of activities, you can learn about anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, biodiversity, the brain, climate change, the Earth, Einstein, expeditions, genetics, marine biology, paleontology, water, and zoology.
Students grow crystals and identify the crystal system by observing their basic …
Students grow crystals and identify the crystal system by observing their basic geometric form. Students all research crytallization processes.
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Learn how snowfall happening later in the year than usual is impacting …
Learn how snowfall happening later in the year than usual is impacting cultural practices in this video segment about climate change adapted from the College of Menominee Nation.
In this video segment adapted from the College of Menominee Nation, tribal …
In this video segment adapted from the College of Menominee Nation, tribal members observe lower water levels in lakes and streams and call for global, collaborative solutions to address climate change.
This activitiy is a lab experience where students observe, compare and classify …
This activitiy is a lab experience where students observe, compare and classify rocks. Close examination of a variety of rocks reveals their differences and can also spark questions regarding their origins.
This OLogy matching game challenges kids to match pictures of eight ocean …
This OLogy matching game challenges kids to match pictures of eight ocean creatures with their descriptions. The reward? Eight new OLogy trading cards.
In this activity, students are presented with a satellite image of ocean …
In this activity, students are presented with a satellite image of ocean temperature, and examine the map to determine whether ocean temperature is influenced by latitude. Students graph each temperature value as a function of latitude and write a linear equation that best fits the points on their graph. A student worksheet is provided. Summary background information, data and images supporting the activity are available on the Earth Update data site. To complete the activity, students will need to access the Space Update multimedia collection, which is available for download and purchase for use in the classroom.
This video introduces phytoplankton - the base of the marine food web, …
This video introduces phytoplankton - the base of the marine food web, the source of half of the oxygen on Earth, and an important remover of CO2 from the atmosphere. The video also explains how satellites are used to monitor phytoplankton and how warming waters and acidification negatively affect phytoplankton.
This lesson guides a student inquiry into properties of the ocean's carbonate …
This lesson guides a student inquiry into properties of the ocean's carbonate buffer system, and how changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels may affect ocean pH and biological organisms that depend on calcification.
This video adapted from KTOO explores the impact of oil contamination on …
This video adapted from KTOO explores the impact of oil contamination on the herring population of Prince William Sound, Alaska, in 1999, 10 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Data modeling activity using oil reserve and consumption data. Students predict when …
Data modeling activity using oil reserve and consumption data. Students predict when oil reserves meet or exceed reserves.
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