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The Data Literacy Company | Tuva - 0 views

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    The Tuva tools enable students to easily explore and manipulate data to create their own graphs and charts. They promote conceptual understanding of important mathematical and statistical concepts and ideas
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WikiWatershed: Freshwater Stewardship Web Tools - 4 views

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    Welcome to WikiWatershed, a web toolkit designed to help citizens, conservation practitioners, municipal decision-makers, researchers, educators, and students advance knowledge and stewardship of fresh water.
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Air Pollution - Our World in Data - 2 views

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    How do levels of air pollution vary across the world? What are the health and mortality impacts of exposure to air pollution? See global and country-level data on air pollution and its consequences. Anything with Roser's name = interesting data.
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Video: Clearing California Skies - 2 views

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    Clearing California Skies California, 1943. The mysterious haze called smog was getting worse - burning eyes, searing throats, literally choking the life out of Californians. The video, Clearing California Skies tells the story of how concerned citizens, top scientists, and local and state government agencies fought back. It took the best science and engineering to control smog forming emissions from factories, shops, incinerators, and the automobile. Despite meteoric population gains, (more factories, more cars, more trucks) - air quality has improved dramatically over the past 50 years, and along the way California emerged as a world leader in the battle against air pollution.
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Global Pollution Map - 1 views

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    Pollution.org is envisioned as a site for policymakers and the public alike to find, understand, and interpret data about the pollution crisis affecting us all. Most importantly, the site seeks to start conversations about solutions and to collect data on what is working. Following the publication of The Lancet Commission on Pollution + Health, this website was developed to collect and present credible, up-to-date datasets on exposures re
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    Gapminder's downloadable slides and tools ... nice ways of applying 
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Quiz: Climate change solutions - 2 views

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    To reduce our impact on the climate and avert disaster, it's going to take more than switching to high-efficiency light bulbs. But the most effective ways that individuals, policymakers and businesses can reduce our carbon footprint might surprise you. Let's see how much you know about what can be done to fight climate change.
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Understanding Global Change | HHMI BioInteractive - 1 views

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    This interactive tool allows students and educators to build models that explain how the Earth system works and how it is affected by human activities and nonhuman phenomena.
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Illustrated Graphs: Using Art to Enliven Scientific Data - Science Friday - 0 views

  • For many of us, envisioning the profound effects of climate change is hard to do without relatable examples. By illustrating specific aspects of climate change research, Pelto provokes viewers to question, wonder, and want to know more. In this exercise, you will select a scientific graph that addresses an important real-world issue, create an illustrated graph from that original, and craft an effective artist’s statement that connects the two. Once you’re done, keep
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    For many of us, envisioning the profound effects of climate change is hard to do without relatable examples. By illustrating specific aspects of climate change research, Pelto provokes viewers to question, wonder, and want to know more. In this exercise, you will select a scientific graph that addresses an important real-world issue, create an illustrated graph from that original, and craft an effective artist's statement that connects the two. Once you're done, keep an eye out for other ways you can merge science with art. The possibilities are endless!
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Welcome to Inquiry to Student Environmental Action - 0 views

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    a variety of simtualtions : carbon footprint, marine scientist tanks, ocean acidification..and more...worth looking at.
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Digital Library - Free Educational Labs and Experiments | PASCO - 0 views

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    PASCO's labs and experiments for all probes, all grade levels
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Vertebrate Declines and the Sixth Mass Extinction | HHMI BioInteractive - 1 views

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    The left panels show the absolute number of species whose populations have declined in each region; the right panels show the percentage of species that declined in each region. The top panels include all land vertebrates (amphibians, birds, reptiles, and mammals), whereas the bottom panels represent only bird species. Project or distribute the image to engage students. The downloadable Educator Materials PDF, which includes background information, graph interpretation and discussion questions, and the Student Handout, which includes the image and background information, have been remediated to comply with Section 508 of the National Rehabilitation Act for accessibility and can be used with screen readers.
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Operation Wallacea - Conservation Research Expeditions - 0 views

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    The mother of all "field trips" . Take students around the world, sleep in tents, dive on reefs and help with data collection.
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Data Nuggets - 2 views

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Home - Living Oceans FoundationLiving Oceans Foundation - 0 views

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    Great resource for marine ecosystem curiculum
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