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Soil Ecology Lab

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Soil Ecology Lab

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Students collect soil samples from places of interest around campus and run a series of basic soil analyses to make conclusions about how soil fertility relates to the biological community and human management.

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Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Chemistry; Environmental Studies; Physical Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 09/06/2020

Soil Microbes and Global Warming

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Soil Microbes and Global Warming

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In this video, adapted from KUAC-TV and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, viewers learn how one-celled organisms in permafrost may be contributing to greenhouse gas levels and global warming.

Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Applied Science; Biology; Chemistry; Earth and Space Science; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Geology; Life Science; Physical Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: KUAC; Teachers' Domain; WGBH Educational Foundation
Date Added:: 05/15/2012

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Soil Quest

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In this interactive, students learn all about soil and how to conserve it. Students are walked through a series of questions and scenarios to help them learn about the connection to the carbon cycle and climate change.

Subject:: Agriculture; Agriculture and Natural Resources; Applied Science; Ecology; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Life Science; Physical Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Captain Planet Foundation; ProjectHero
Date Added:: 06/27/2022

Soils ��Field Characterization, Collection, and Laboratory Analysis

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Soils ��Field Characterization, Collection, and Laboratory Analysis

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Field characterization of soil profiles in coniferous and deciduous settings; sample collection of soils from different horizons; laboratory analysis of soil moisture, soil organic carbon (by loss on ignition), and grain size distribution (by sieving)

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Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Applied Science; Biology; Chemistry; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Life Science; Physical Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 09/06/2020

Soils as Construction Materials

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Soils as Construction Materials

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This geotechnical project will introduce you with the concept of using soils as construction materials.This project involves characterizing soils using various laboratory analyses and applying the Unified Soil Classification System in naming the soil.

Keywords: Geotechnical, Mass Wetness, Grain Size Analysis, Atterberg Limits

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Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Biology; Earth and Space Science; Environmental Studies; Life Science; Physical Geography
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 08/06/2019

Solar Convection

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Solar Convection

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In this activity, students will use hot and cold water to see how fluids at different temperatures move around in convection currents.

Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Atmospheric Science; Earth and Space Science; Environmental Studies; Oceanography; Physical Science; Physics
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Lawrence Hall of Science; Science Friday
Date Added:: 07/28/2022

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Solar Energy

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This activity comes at the beginning of a sequence of activities in an energy module. Students observe the transfer of solar energy to different appliances with a solar cell and then they investigate the effect of using different solar sources to supply energy to appliances.

Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Environmental Studies; Physical Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Environmental Literacy and Inquiry Working Group; Lehigh University
Date Added:: 08/29/2012

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Solar House

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This video segment from 'What's Up in the Environment,' shares how an entire home can be constructed using green energy sources (solar and geothermal energy). Video is narrated by young boy whose father is the chief engineer on the project.

Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Applied Science; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Physical Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Teachers' Domain; Thirteen/WNET.org
Date Added:: 05/15/2012

Solar Influence: Climate Change

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Solar Influence: Climate Change

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This short video, the sixth in the National Academies Climate Change, Lines of Evidence series, explores the hypothesis that changes in solar energy output may be responsible for observed global surface temperature rise. Several lines of evidence, such as direct satellite observations, are reviewed.

Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Environmental Studies; Physical Science; Physics
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: National Research Council; The National Academies
Date Added:: 08/29/2012

Solar Panels for Your Home

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Solar Panels for Your Home

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In this video segment from NOVA's Saved By the Sun hour-long video, students learn about photovoltaics and see how two families are using solar technologies in their homes. The video introduces the ideas of state incentives and net metering benefits.

Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Environmental Studies; Physical Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: NOVA scienceNOW; Teachers' Domain; WGBH Educational Foundation
Date Added:: 05/15/2012

Solar Power Basics

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This introductory video summarizes the process of generating solar electricity from photovoltaic and concentrating (thermal) solar power technologies.

Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Environmental Studies; Physical Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Date Added:: 03/09/2023

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Solar Racing

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In this 'Energy Education for the 21st Century' design challenge, students construct and evaluate a solar-powered model car. Students utilize the design process and undergo review by their peers to select an optimal gear ratio and components for their car. As a culminating activity, students compete in a Solar Sprint race modeled after the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Junior Solar Sprint competition.

Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Environmental Studies; Physical Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Date Added:: 03/09/2023

Solar Structures

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Solar Structures

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This activity explores solar energy and the difference between passive and active solar design. Students will design and build a solar structure in order to test how radiation and conduction distribute heat.

Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Applied Science; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Physical Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Try Engineering
Date Added:: 06/29/2022

Solar Water Heater

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Solar Water Heater

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Student teams design and build solar water heating devices that mimic those used in residences to capture energy in the form of solar radiation and convert it to thermal energy. In this activity, students gain a better understanding of the three different types of heat transfer, each of which plays a role in the solar water heater design. Once the model devices are constructed, students perform efficiency calculations and compare designs.

Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Applied Science; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Physical Science; Physics
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Date Added:: 03/09/2023

Solving the Carbon Dioxide Problem

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Solving the Carbon Dioxide Problem

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Students use information from Project Drawdown to learn about the sectors where climate solutions are being implemented to help slow down climate warming. Students construct a plan for using specific solutions to reduce and remove the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and make a claim describing how their plan could work to keep global temperature change below 1.5 ÂC.

Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Applied Science; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Physical Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Melissa Rummel; University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Center for Science Education
Date Added:: 06/27/2022

South Carolina Studies: Bringing the Geologic Time Scale Down to Earth in the Students' Backyard

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South Carolina Studies: Bringing the Geologic Time Scale Down to Earth in the Students' Backyard

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Students visit Drayton Hall historic plantation near Charleston, South Carolina and are led on a field trip that starts with a discussion of documented historic changes that have affected the mansion and the surrounding property. The field trip continues with a study of Native American artifacts and ends with analysis of coastal plain deposits exposed along the Ashley River. Students use paleogeographic maps to discuss both historic and prehistoric changes to the landscape. Back in the classroom, students gather data to draw paleogeographic maps of their own school site through geologic time.

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Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Biology; Earth and Space Science; Environmental Studies; Geology; Life Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Module
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 09/30/2022

Southern Great Plains and Southwest | Global Weirding

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Southern Great Plains and Southwest | Global Weirding

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This video discusses impacts that the Midwestern US is experiencing due to climate change. It describes how climate change is affecting agriculture, tourism, drought and flood, water cycles and freshwater availability, the spread of invasive species and disease, as well as other topics.

Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Applied Science; Atmospheric Science; Earth and Space Science; Economics; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Physical Science; Social Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Global Weirding Series; Katharine Hayhoe
Date Added:: 06/25/2019

Southern Ocean Sentinels

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Southern Ocean Sentinels

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This video discusses two key signs of global change in the Southern Ocean: changes in Antarctic bottom water and ocean acidification.

Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Applied Science; Biology; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Life Science; Physical Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Date Added:: 03/09/2023

Spatial and Temporal Tracer Test Data Analysis

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Spatial and Temporal Tracer Test Data Analysis

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This is an assignment I worked on with Dr. Brusseau (University of Arizona) for his Contaminant Transport class. In this problem solving exercise, students are provided data sets that could be obtained by monitoring flow and transport of a tracer or contaminant in the field or in a soil column experiment in the laboratory. They will need to input the equations into a spreadsheet to complete the assignment.

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Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Chemistry; Earth and Space Science; Environmental Studies; Hydrology; Physical Science
Material Type:: Lesson Plan
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 08/06/2019

State Electricity on Google Earth: How many solar panels would it take?

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State Electricity on Google Earth: How many solar panels would it take?

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In this activity, students calculate electricity use by state and determine, using Google Earth, how much land would be required to replace all sources of electricity with solar panels.

Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Applied Science; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Physical Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Billy Goodman Passaic Valley High School; CLEAN Community Collection; Maureen Padden McMaster University; Todd Greene California State University-Chico
Date Added:: 03/09/2023