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Hear about how respect for Earth can help us attain a more sustainable lifestyle in the face of climate change in this video segment adapted from United Tribes Technical College.

Subject:: Life Science; Ecology; Environmental Science; Forestry and Agriculture
Material Type:: Lesson
Provider:: PBS LearningMedia
Provider Set:: PBS Learning Media Common Core Collection
Author:: NASA; WGBH Educational Foundation
Date Added:: 03/19/2012

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Air Quality Index

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In this interactive activity adapted from Air Quality Index: A Guide to Air Quality and Your Health by the U.S. EPA, learn about common pollutants in the air we breathe, their health effects, and how their levels are reported.

Subject:: Life Science; Ecology; Forestry and Agriculture
Material Type:: Interactive
Provider:: PBS LearningMedia
Provider Set:: PBS Learning Media Common Core Collection
Author:: NIEHS; WGBH Educational Foundation
Date Added:: 01/11/2011

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Alaska Native Pilots

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In this video adapted from Storyknife Productions, Alaska Native pilots share how they use traditional knowledge to read the landscape and predict the weather.

Subject:: Ecology; Environmental Science; Forestry and Agriculture
Material Type:: Lecture
Provider:: PBS LearningMedia
Provider Set:: PBS Learning Media Common Core Collection; Teachers' Domain
Author:: National Science Foundation; WGBH Educational Foundation
Date Added:: 11/04/2008

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Alaska Native Teens Help Researchers

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In this video adapted from KUAC-TV and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska Native students contribute to research on how their environment is changing as a result of global warming.

Subject:: Life Science; Ecology; Environmental Science; Forestry and Agriculture
Material Type:: Lesson
Provider:: PBS LearningMedia
Provider Set:: PBS Learning Media Common Core Collection
Author:: National Science Foundation; WGBH Educational Foundation
Date Added:: 11/04/2008

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Alaska Tsunami

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In this video adapted from Alaska Sea Grant, discover why multiple tsunamis resulted from the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964.

Subject:: Oceanography; Ecology; Environmental Science; Forestry and Agriculture
Material Type:: Lecture
Provider:: PBS LearningMedia
Provider Set:: PBS Learning Media Common Core Collection; Teachers' Domain
Author:: National Science Foundation; WGBH Educational Foundation
Date Added:: 11/04/2008

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Analyzing an Ecosystem

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In this interactive activity adapted from the University of Alberta, identify the living and nonliving things in an ecosystem. Then look further at the living things to identify the producers, the consumers, and examples of mimicry.

Subject:: Life Science; Biology; Ecology; Forestry and Agriculture
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Interactive
Provider:: PBS LearningMedia
Provider Set:: PBS Learning Media Common Core Collection; Teachers' Domain
Author:: National Science Foundation; WGBH Educational Foundation
Date Added:: 08/09/2007

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Antarctic Food Web Game

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In this interactive game adapted from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, build a food web that illustrates the flow of energy in an Antarctic ecosystem and the relationships between predators and prey.

Subject:: Life Science; Ecology; Forestry and Agriculture
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Interactive
Provider:: PBS LearningMedia
Provider Set:: PBS Learning Media Common Core Collection; Teachers' Domain
Author:: National Science Foundation; WGBH Educational Foundation
Date Added:: 08/09/2007

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Arctic Tundra

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This video segment from Wild Europe: "Wild Arctic" explores the struggle for survival in one of Earth's most extreme environments.

Subject:: Life Science; Ecology; Forestry and Agriculture
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: PBS LearningMedia
Provider Set:: PBS Learning Media Common Core Collection; Teachers' Domain
Author:: National Science Foundation; WGBH Educational Foundation
Date Added:: 09/26/2003

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Bears Don't Recognize Boundaries

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In this video segment from Nature, learn about the problems bears are creating on ranch land surrounding Yellowstone National Park.

Subject:: Life Science; Ecology; Forestry and Agriculture
Material Type:: Lecture
Provider:: PBS LearningMedia
Provider Set:: PBS Learning Media Common Core Collection; Teachers' Domain
Author:: Canon; Corporation for Public Broadcasting; SC Johnson; WNET
Date Added:: 11/12/2008

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Biomimicry and Sustainable Design - Nature Is an Engineering Marvel

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Biomimicry and Sustainable Design - Nature Is an Engineering Marvel

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Students are introduced to the concepts of biomimicry and sustainable design. Countless examples illustrate the wisdom of nature in how organisms are adapted for survival, such as in body style, physiological processes, water conservation, thermal radiation and mutualistic relationships, to assure species perpetuation. Students learn from articles and videos, building a framework of evidence substantiating the indisputable fact that organisms operate "smarter" and thus provide humans with inspiration in how to improve products, systems and cities. As students focus on applying the ecological principles of the previous lessons to the future design of our human-centered world, they also learn that often our practices are incapable of replicating the precision in which nature completes certain functions, as evidenced by our dependence on bees as pollinators of the human food supply. The message of biomimicry is one of respect: study to improve human practices and ultimately protect natural systems. This heightened appreciation helps students to grasp the value of industry and urban mimetic designs to assure protection of global resources, minimize human impact and conserve nonrenewable resources. All of these issues aid students in creating a viable guest resort in the Sonoran Desert.

Subject:: Technology and Engineering; Ecology; Forestry and Agriculture
Material Type:: Lesson Plan
Provider:: TeachEngineering
Provider Set:: TeachEngineering
Author:: TeachEngineering.org; VU Bioengineering RET Program,; Wendy J. Holmgren
Date Added:: 09/18/2014

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Botany & Art and Their Roles in Conservation

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The lessons in this issue of Smithsonian in Your Classroom introduce the work of botanists and botanical illustrators, specifically their race to make records of endangered plant species around the world. “Very little of the world’s flora has been fully studied,” says one Smithsonian botanist, “and time is running out.” In the first lesson, students gets to know six endangered plants. They examine illustrations, photographs, and dried specimens of the plants as they consider this question: If a scientist can take a picture of a plant, are there advantages in having an illustration? They go on to consider some of the big questions that botanists themselves must ask: Which of these species are most in need of conservation efforts? Are any of these plants more worth saving than others?In the second lesson, the students try their own hands at botanical illustration, following the methods of a Smithsonian staff illustrator. All that is required for the lesson are pencils, markers, tracing paper, and access to a photocopier.

Subject:: Fine Arts; Life Science; Botany; Ecology; Forestry and Agriculture
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Diagram/Illustration; Lecture; Lesson Plan; Reading; Unit of Study
Provider:: Smithsonian Institution
Provider Set:: Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund
Author:: Smithsonian Institute
Date Added:: 01/22/2018

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Can Organic Farms and Mosquito Control Coexist?

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Can Organic Farms and Mosquito Control Coexist?

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Learn about one town's conflict over the issue of spraying pesticides to combat disease-carrying insects, in this video segment from Greater Boston.

Subject:: Life Science; Ecology; Forestry and Agriculture
Material Type:: Lesson
Provider:: PBS LearningMedia
Provider Set:: PBS Learning Media Common Core Collection
Author:: NIEHS; WGBH Educational Foundation
Date Added:: 03/02/2011

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Can Venus and Mars Be Made Habitable?

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This activity is about planetary climate. Once familiar with the factors that determine a planet's surface temperature, learners will use an interactive spreadsheet model of a planet's atmosphere to determine if greenhouse gases, luminosity of the source, the distance of the planet from the source and the albedo of the planet can be manipulated so that the average surface temperature on Mars or Venus could support human life. Learners will then be asked to make some conclusions about these methods and suggest improvements for the spreadsheet model (see related resources for link to this model). The activity requires use of Microsoft Excel software. This is Activity D in the fourth module, titled "How do Atmospheres Affect Planetary Temperatures?," of "Earth Climate Course: What Determines a Planet's Climate?."

Subject:: Atmospheric Science; Life Science; Ecology; Forestry and Agriculture; Mathematics; Physics
Material Type:: Data Set; Full Course; Student Guide
Provider:: NASA
Provider Set:: NASA Wavelength
Date Added:: 10/13/2017

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Capturing Carbon

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In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, a scientist, inspired by his daughter's science fair project, develops a synthetic tree to remove excess carbon dioxide from the air.

Subject:: Technology and Engineering; Ecology; Environmental Science; Forestry and Agriculture; Chemistry; Physics
Material Type:: Lecture
Provider:: PBS LearningMedia
Provider Set:: PBS Learning Media Common Core Collection; Teachers' Domain
Author:: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; HHMI; National Science Foundation; Public Television Viewers; WGBH Educational Foundation
Date Added:: 08/20/2008

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Chemist and Biologist Catherine Drennan

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In this video produced for Teachers' Domain, learn about MIT professor Cathy Drennan's research into microorganisms that remove carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere.

Subject:: Life Science; Ecology; Environmental Science; Forestry and Agriculture
Material Type:: Lesson
Provider:: PBS LearningMedia
Provider Set:: PBS Learning Media Common Core Collection
Author:: Amgen Foundation; WGBH Educational Foundation
Date Added:: 09/08/2009

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Clean Up This Mess

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Students are challenged to design a method for separating steel from aluminum based on magnetic properties as is frequently done in recycling operations. To complicate the challenge, the magnet used to separate the steel must be able to be switched off to allow for the recollection of the steel. Students must ultimately design, test, and present an effective electromagnet.

Subject:: Technology and Engineering; Ecology; Forestry and Agriculture; Physics
Material Type:: Unit of Study
Provider:: TeachEngineering
Provider Set:: TeachEngineering
Author:: Justin Montenegro , Glencliff High School, Nashville; TeachEngineering.org; VU Bioengineering RET Program,
Date Added:: 09/18/2014

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Climate Change Impacts Alaska Glaciers

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This video adapted from KTOO takes a look at Earth's warming and cooling cycles and the current atypical trend of warming that is impacting the glaciers in Alaska's Inside Passage.

Subject:: Ecology; Environmental Science; Forestry and Agriculture
Material Type:: Lecture
Provider:: PBS LearningMedia
Provider Set:: PBS Learning Media Common Core Collection; Teachers' Domain
Author:: National Science Foundation; WGBH Educational Foundation
Date Added:: 11/04/2008

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Climate Literacy & Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN)

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The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) website includes a collection of educational resources related to climate and energy science. The site also hosts an online community for educators to share and discuss resources and teaching methodology.

Subject:: Education; Life Science; Ecology; Forestry and Agriculture
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Interactive; Lesson Plan
Provider:: AMSER: Applied Math and Science Education Repository; Internet Scout Project
Provider Set:: AMSER: Applied Math and Science Education Repository; Internet Scout Project
Date Added:: 02/21/2011

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Climate Wisconsin: Forestry

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Learn how a family farm in Wisconsin functions and how it is impacted by climate change in this multimedia video produced by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board.

Subject:: Ecology; Environmental Science; Forestry and Agriculture
Material Type:: Lesson
Provider:: PBS LearningMedia
Provider Set:: PBS Learning Media Common Core Collection
Author:: Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Educational Communications Board; Wisconsin ECB
Date Added:: 11/23/2010

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Colorful Critters

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The goal of this lesson is to introduce students to the advantages behind the colors and patterns displayed on Wisconsin critters using a collection of photos from Snapshot Wisconsin, a citizen science project utilizing a statewide network of trail cameras. This lesson plan includes an optional outdoor activity.

Subject:: Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources; Life Science; Ecology; Forestry and Agriculture; Zoology
Material Type:: Lesson; Lesson Plan
Author:: Taylor Peltier
Date Added:: 08/02/2019

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