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Title: Global Warming: Early Warning Signs
Grade Level: High school
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists
The featured curriculum is part 4 of a 4-part series exploring the different impacts of climate change. This section focuses on climate change and ecosystems. The goal is to have students research the interdependencies among plants and animals in an ecosystem and explore how climate change might affect those interdependencies and the ecosystem as a whole.…
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Title: Blooming Thermometers
Grade Level: Middle School
Source: National Center for Atmospheric Research
This activity is part of an NCAR series on climate change over time, and the Little Ice Age. It serves as an introduction to phenology, and an inderstanding of how cultural events are tied to seasonal changes. After creating a list of seasonal natural phenomena,…
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Title: Budburst Protocol
Grade Level: All
Source: GLOBE
Students identify one or more trees at a designated site, recording what the dominant species is, and flagging or taping the selected trees. Students observe the trees starting two weeks before expected budburst (based on past data, if available), and increase the frequency of checks to daily once the buds appear to be swelling.
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Case study filler.jpg
Title: Global Warming: Early Warning Signs
Grade Level: High school
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists
The featured curriculum is part 4 of a 4-part series exploring the different impacts of climate change. This section focuses on climate change and ecosystems. The goal is to have students research the interdependencies among plants and animals in an ecosystem and explore how climate change might affect those interdependencies and the ecosystem as a whole.…