Balancing & Reactions
(View Complete Item Description)Students write balanced equations for a series of word equations. Students will also indicate the type of reaction as described.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students write balanced equations for a series of word equations. Students will also indicate the type of reaction as described.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This app for iPad devices is a fully interactive atomistic simulation that shows the motions of atoms as they attract, repel, and collide with one another. With the tap or swipe of a finger, students can add, delete, or highlight molecules, as well as increase/decrease temperature, pressure, or volume and explore the states of matter. An associated simulation, Salts, allows students to manipulate atoms and ions to join to form crystals.
Material Type: Interactive
This is a short video outlining the causes and effects of a magnitude 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in 1964. Additional resources include a background essay and discussion questions.
Material Type: Presentation
This animation illustrates how seismic waves travel through the earth to a single seismic station. Scale and movement of the seismic station are greatly exaggerated to depict the relative motion recorded by the seismogram as P, S, and surface waves arrive.
Material Type: Lesson
This animation illustrates the movement of the three basic waves associated with an earthquake and the effect of these waves on a building.
Material Type: Lesson
This animation illustrates the movement of the three basic waves associated with an earthquake and the effects of these waves on various locations. By measuring the travel time of the P and S waves, distances from the epicenter can be calculated.
Material Type: Lesson
In August 2008, the "Mountain Weather Workshop: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Forecasting" was held in Whistler, BC, Canada. It was sponsored by the American Meteorological Society, UCAR/COMET, and the Meteorological Service of Canada. The workshop brought together researchers, faculty, students, and operational forecasters. Its primary goals were to help provide a better understanding of the state of the science of mountain meteorology from both a research and an operational perspective, and to discuss ways of improving interaction between the research and forecasting communities. The workshop consisted of lectures by distinguished speakers covering numerous topics related to weather in complex terrain. This webcast collection contains recordings of the presentations from the workshop.
Material Type: Module
This AP Environmental Science class is intended to meet the same objectives as a first-year college-based course. However, the method of instruction for this course is unique compared to similar courses because we have adopted a project-based learning (PBL) approach. Although PBL may take many forms, our approach involves student investigations and simulations that require students to think like scientists, policymakers, farmers, and other adults in real-world settings. Teachers engage students in collaborative problem solving, argumentation, and deep exploration of the concepts and principles of the discipline. The goal for student learning is understanding rather than relying on rote memory to create meaningful learning and knowledge that is actionable, adaptive, and transferable.
Material Type: Syllabus
This website explains aquaculture, provides examples, and explains NOAA's role in regulation.
Material Type: Lesson
Students describe the comparative rates at which water and land surfaces heat and cool.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this activity, students play a game that simulates the carbon cycle. During the activity students will compare the carbon cycle before and after the industrial revolution.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this activity, students will work in collaborative groups to develop an advertisement for a political candidate in support of one side of an issue - should we build low-cost housing on part of the land presently occupied by an estuary? Each group will decide which side they want to support - either for or against building the housing - and write an ad that will be run in a local paper, or that will be viewed on local TV, to support their argument.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will examine geologic maps in order to assess the likelihood and location of earthquakes in California.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will examine geologic maps in order to understand how water shapes the land and is stored within the land - in part of the Grand Canyon.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will examine the choices people make regarding the use of water.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this simulation activity, students play the roles of community members wrestling with the problem of cleaning up a polluted pond on their common property. They quickly discover that because of their different values and interests, the important question is not whether to clean up the pond, but how much clean-up they are willing to pay for.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This brief classroom activity can be used to informally assess students ability to apply the principles of economic reasoning to environmental issues.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The AirData website provides access to air pollution data for the entire United States. Users have the ability to produce reports and maps of air pollution data based on criteria that they specify.
Material Type: Data Set, Diagram/Illustration, Interactive, Lesson, Reference Material
Students learn about air masses and the role they play in weather and climate.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
The purpose of this online tutorial activity is to introduce air masses that commonly influence the weather in the United States, characteristics of these air masses, and how to identify air masses on weather maps. Key words throughout this activity link directly to helper resources that provide useful information for answering the questions.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson