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Prehistoric Climate Change: And Why It Matters Today

This activity, developed by Smithsonian Education, introduces students to environmental topics using fun and challenging real-world math problems. Students determine average annual temperatures 55 million years ago by examining the fossils of leaves from various prehistoric tree species.

Climate

This activity, developed by NASA, integrates a series of activities to introduce changes in water, ice and soil as well as understanding how they reflect climate.

Moisture and Clouds

In this activity developed by NASA, students develop a basic understanding of the relationship between cloud type and the form of precipitation. They also explore the relationship between the amount of water in the atmosphere available for precipitation and the actual precipitation observed by satellite.

What's Up with the Weather? Examining Temperature Statistics

This lesson prepared by NOVA examines temperature data over ten years. Students use a statistical analysis technique, the moving average, to search for meaningful trends in the raw temperature data.

Weather Watchers

In this Illuminations activity by the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics, students gather weather data, interpret the information and make a stem-and-leaf plot to illustrate patterns.

Graphing the Weather

Students track the weather over a month-long period using basic weather instruments, chart the information, and make predictions based on their observations.

What to Wear? What to Drink? Weather Patterns and Climatic Regions

In this lesson developed by the University of Colorado at Boulder, students learn about the different climatic regions and the factors that determine climate. They also explore how engineers enable humans to adapt to living in most environments by designing buildings, water systems and other technologies.

Measuring Weather with Tools

In this National Geographic Education activity, students study how weather is measured. Students will learn about the different instruments used to measure weather, the various units of measure and predict what instruments might be useful to measure weather on other planets.

Where's My Water?

This app for iPhone and Android is an exciting way to learn about water physics and the flow of water through plumbing. This can serve as a supplement to lessons on water movement and use.

H2O Calc

This app for iPhone provides a quick and easy method of estimating household water usage. This can serve as a supplement to water use lessons.

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