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Global Warming Demonstration
Duration: 30 minutes
Grade Levels: 1-12
This demonstration uses a water balloon to show how Earth's oceans are absorbing most of the heat being trapped on our warming world.
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Grade Levels: 1-12
Duration: 30 minutes
Concepts/Skills: Earth Science, Earth processes
Climate Standards Connections
| Next Generation Science Standards | ||
| Grade | Performance Expectation | Description |
| 4 | 4-ESS3-1 | Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment |
| Climate Change Connections | human impact renewable energy | |
| Clarification Statement & Assessment Boundary | Examples of renewable energy resources could include wind energy, water behind dams, and sunlight; non-renewable energy resources are fossil fuels and fissile materials. Examples of environmental effects could include loss of habitat due to dams, loss of habitat due to surface mining, and air pollution from burning of fossil fuels. | |