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Earth's deep geologic history and real science data at your fingertips

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EarthViewer is a hands-on data model of planet Earth through its whole history, allowing students and teachers to travel back and forth through time, studying modern history, the last eon, or back 4.5 billion years to the formation of the planet. It's available as an app, as a Windows or Mac download, or for use in your browser. Manipulating the app's controls allows users to see how the continents were oriented millions of years ago and how they moved into their positions today. It also lets students compare such data as the temperature of the Earth and the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere over billions of years.

The interface includes timeline columns on the left that show the eon, era, and period, as well as a movable marker showing the current displayed point in Earth's history. Users can tap to get more information, as well as pinch in or out to switch between the three timeline views. On the right side of the screen, Earth can be rotated, moved around, or zoomed in or out. It's also where users can see information such as how far in the past they are looking, how much oxygen and carbon dioxide were in the atmosphere, and how long the days were. At the bottom of the screen are many additional options: Charts can be displayed showing temperature, oxygen level, carbon dioxide level, day length, luminosity, and biodiversity over time. Users can also toggle markers on the map and timeline for geological events, biological events, mass extinctions, impact events, fossils, cities, and the latitude and longitude grid.

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EarthViewer is a hands-on data model of planet Earth through its whole history, allowing students and teachers to travel back and forth through time, studying modern history, the last eon, or back 4.5 billion years to the formation of the planet. It's available as an app, as a Windows or Mac download, or for use in your browser.

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Search results for Climate

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See how all life is connected at the world's only aquarium-planetarium-rainforest-living museum.

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Great kick off resource on Climate Change

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Climate Kids is a comprehensive website from NASA covering a variety of global climate change topics. The website provides many ways to engage in learning, including games, hands-on activities, facts, videos, and career profiles. The site is organized into categories such as Atmosphere, Water, Weather & Climate, Plants & Animals, and Energy. The Big Questions section introduces students to the basics and provides answers to "What is global climate change?" and "What can we do to help?" The information is often text-heavy, and no audio support is offered. A page is dedicated to teaching about climate change and includes links to other websites; some of these links no longer work.

The Climate Change Time Machine is a standout interactive feature of the site that feeds the scientific inquiry process. Users can go backward and forward through time to visually see evidence of how Earth has changed over the years. The Time Machine includes maps of sea ice, sea level, carbon emissions, and average global temperature.

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Climate Kids Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Climate Kids is a comprehensive website from NASA covering a variety of global climate change topics. The website provides many ways to engage in learning, including games, hands-on activities, facts, videos, and career profiles. The site is organized into categories such as Atmosphere, Water, Weather & Climate, Plants & Animals, and Energy.

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Climate resources

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Resource Library | National Geographic Society

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Ultimate Guide to Weather and Climate Resources online

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From the local weather reports to discussions of global warming and climate change, there's no denying that talk of the weather and climate is everywhere we turn. Our basic knowledge of these two sciences helps us make decisions from what to wear when we get up in the morning, to what time of year to plan ski vacations or camping trips, and when to plant our gardens.

But, just how do those weather reporters forecast what the day will be like, much less the week? What does all this stuff about climate change really mean? And how can we even know what the climate was like before humans were around? If you're interested in answering these questions and learning more about weather and climate, or if you're considering pursuing a career in this field, we've compiled a list of great online resources to help get you started.

General Weather and Climate Resources

Weather and Climate Resources for Kids

Weather and Climate Resources for Teens

Weather and Climate Resources for Educators

Bad Meteorology is a site dedicated to informing educators and the general public about commonly held misconceptions in weather and climate science. Before you pass on your understanding of weather and climate to your students, make sure you're not passing on a misconception by visiting this site.

Climate Change Education provides educators with resources to help incorporate current issues of global climate change into their curriculum. Lessons are provided for all grade levels and across all subject areas.

Met Ed K-12 is an extension of the Met Ed site, and provides well-developed, scientifically accurate modules to teach students about weather and meteorology. Registration is required for access to materials, but it's free and worth it for access to these high quality units.

Met Office for Teachers is the United Kingdom's national weather service site for educators and provides extensive, well-developed resources for teaching about the weather. Lessons are aligned to geography, science, and math standards for the U.K., and may need to be adapted to fit state or national standards where you teach.

Meteorology: An Educator's Resource for Inquiry-Based Learning for Grades 5-9 is a great way to supplement a more traditional meteorology curriculum with experimental and hands-on learning experiences that help students arrive at a deeper understanding of scientific concepts about weather and climate. You can download the entire guide as a PDF file.

National Snow and Ice Data Center - Education Resources has selected the most interesting and student-friendly data, videos, and photos on snow and ice climate research. Highlights include then and now glacier photographs, Inuit observations on climate change, and frequently updated satellite imagery from Arctic regions.

NASA Educator Resources on Climate Change provides educators free access to units and modules developed by NASA to help students study climate and climate change. This site will help you incorporate some of NASA's scientific approaches, data, and imagery into your lessons on climate change.

NOAA Education for Teachers features a number of well-developed lessons, activities, and other resources for educators. This site also has links to information about NOAA trainings and other programs for teachers.

Paleoclimatology Resources for K-12 is a series of student activities designed to help your students explore the study of past climates through proxies. These web-quests guide students through paleoclimatology techniques and specific sites where research in this field is booming.

Student's Cloud Observations On-line (S'cool) offers an authentic audience for your students' scientific observations of clouds. Standards-aligned lesson plans, project ideas, and printable materials are all provided through this NASA program.

The GLOBE Program is a program designed to connect your primary and secondary students to scientists studying earth systems around the world. Its focus is inquiry-based learning that promotes deep understandings of science, while at the same time providing students access and avenues to communicate with professionals in this field.

Weather Scope is an interdisciplinary, investigative unit to help middle and high school students better understand weather and climate. If you're looking for an authentic audience for your students, this program also creates a space on its site to display photos of students engaging in the investigation, as well as a place to display their final reports.

Weather Watch allows schools to exchange information about their weather in order to make the concept of weather as a localized phenomenon more tangible to young students. Register your school on weather watch, and have your students exchange weather information and photos with schools around the world, to help them better understand weather from a global perspective.

Web Weather Teacher Tips provides several simple experiments to demonstrate common weather phenomenon in the classroom. Activities are aligned to National Science Standards and most involve materials that are affordable and easy to obtain.

WW2010 is a collection of online resources designed to explain weather phenomenon to educators, and to provide activities that make these concepts attainable to students. Topics range from weather basics to weather anomalies, and all teaching modules are reviewed by scientists for accuracy prior to publication.

Weather and Climate Resources for College Students

Resources on Climate Change

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The Ultimate Guide to Weather and Climate Resources Online

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From the local weather reports to discussions of global warming and climate change, there's no denying that talk of the weather and climate is everywhere we turn. Our basic knowledge of these two sciences helps us make decisions from what to wear when we get up in the morning, to what time of year to plan ski vacations or camping trips, and when to plant our gardens.

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Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

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The following organizations provide reviewed listings of the best available student and educators resources related to global climate change, including NASA products.

The CLEAN project, a part of the National Science Digital Library, provides a reviewed collection of resources to aid students' understanding of the core ideas in climate and energy science, coupled with the tools to enable an online community to share and discuss teaching about climate and energy science.

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For Educators | NASA Global Climate Change

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The following organizations provide reviewed listings of the best available student and educators resources related to global climate change, including NASA products. The CLEAN project, a part of the National Science Digital Library, provides a reviewed collection of resources to aid students' understanding of the core ideas in climate and energy science, coupled with the tools to enable an online community to share and discuss teaching about climate and energy science.

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How California is effected by climate change

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California currently provides two-thirds of the country's fruits and nuts, but according to a new study published , by the end of the century California's climate will no longer be able to support the state's major crops, including orchards.

The report, published in "Agronomy," warns that the increased rate and scale of climate change is "beyond the realm of experience" for the agricultural community, and unless farmers take urgent measures, the consequences could threaten national food security.

"For California, as an agricultural leader for various commodities, impacts on agricultural production due to climate change would not only translate into national food security issues but also economic impacts that could disrupt state and national commodity systems," the report warns.

The study, led by researchers from the University of California, Merced and Davis campuses, looked at past and current trends in California's climate and examined what impact record low levels of snowpack, and extreme events such as drought will have on crop yields over time.

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Study: Climate Change Threatens Major Crops in California

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California currently provides two-thirds of the country's fruits and nuts, but according to a new study published , by the end of the century California's climate will no longer be able to support the state's major crops, including orchards.

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A student's guide

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Uncovering climate change

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