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  No Impact Project: Water

  Learn ways to conserve water and minimize the amount of chemicals that we put in our drains. The lesson also incorporates web site resources that build on themes that emerge from the family’s experiences.

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Solutions, Water Issues
  Subject:Science, English / Language Arts, Geography, Civics & Citizenship, Environmental Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  Ocean Impacts of an El Nino Event

  This lesson plan will help students to examine the relationships among sea surface height, sea surface temperature, and wind vectors in classifying the ocean characteristics of an El Nino.

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Water Issues
  Subject:Science, Geography, Physics, Earth Science
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  Oceans of Climate Change

  NASA’s education department delivers a creative video description of the ocean’s role in climate change. An experiment using a balloon helps describe the concept of heat capacity of both air and oceans.

  Type:Video
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Water Issues
  Subject:Science, Geography, Physics, Environmental Science
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  One Degree Matters

  One Degree Matters follows social and business leaders as they travel to Greenland and experience for themselves the dramatic effects of the melting of the ice caps and come to understand the planetary effects of climate change and...

  Type:Video
  Topic:Business and Economics, Ecosystems, Water Issues
  Subject:Geography, Economics, Social Studies, Environmental Studies, Global Studies
  Level:Secondary
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  Our Climate, Our Future

  This video is a compilation made from a series of video outputs of projects by Plan in partnership with IDS investigating the use of Participatory Video for working with children on climate change adaptation and disaster risk...

  Type:Video
  Topic:Food and Agriculture, Social Justice, Water Issues
  Subject:Geography, Social Studies, Global Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
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  Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle

  The past decade has been the hottest ever recorded since global temperature records began 150 years ago. This video discusses the impacts of the sun's energy, Earth's reflectance and greenhouse gasses on global warming.

  Type:Video
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Water Issues
  Subject:Geography, Environmental Science
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  Plant Productivity in a Warming World

  Warmer global temperatures and higher levels of precipitation are generally good for plant productivity, but as temperatures have continued to rise, the benefits to plants are now overwhelmed by longer and more frequent droughts.

  Type:Video
  Topic:Ecosystems, Food and Agriculture, Water Issues
  Subject:Science, Geography, Biology, Environmental Science
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  Polar Regions: Arctic Adaptations and Global Impacts

  Ocean literacy involves understanding, among other things, that the ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems, and that the ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected. This lesson explores these principles through...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Ecosystems, Water Issues
  Subject:Science, Geography, Social Studies
  Level:Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle
  Grade:JK K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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  Quest for Clean Shorelines

  This project will have you and your action team doing your part to help remove garbage from a local body of water. By removing litter from sensitive aquatic habitats you are helping to restore the environment and creating healthier...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Recycling and Waste Management, Taking Action, Water Issues
  Subject:Science, Social Studies
  Level:Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle
  Grade:JK K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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  Reports for Intergrated Watershed Management for Ontario

    Published by conservation Ontario; these reports highlight the impact, cost and benefit of intergrated watershed management within Ontario. These reports are at times technical and bureaucratic, but there are gems of information...

  Type:Research
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Natural Resources, Water Issues
  Subject:Science, Geography, Environmental Studies
  Level:Secondary
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