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AIRPLANES AND THE ATMOSPHERE: INVESTIGTAING HUMAN IMPACT ON THE EARTH'S CLIMATE
A Curriculum Module for New York City Earth Science Teachers

CURRICULUM LINKS

Lesson 3
Layers of the atmosphere descriptions - The descriptions in the students' textbook will most likely be sufficient. If the students do not have access to textbooks in class, the descriptions can be printed from the Internet. Three web pages with good descriptions of the layers of the atmosphere are:
* NASA - http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/9-12/features/912_liftoff_atm.html
* PBS - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/balloon/science/atmosphere.html
* UCAR (descriptions are given on three different reading levels) - http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Atmosphere/layers_activity_print.html&edu=mid

Lesson 4
The Rise Of Oxygen video
http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org/?sid=e.f.rise02.20040301&src=l

Lesson 9
NOAA Climate Webpage
* Climate At A Glance - http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/cag3.html

Lesson 12
Surface weather data
* Current surface weather data - http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sfc_ne_inv.html
* Key for surface weather symbols - http://weather.unisys.com/surface/details.html#surface

Lesson 13
NAO: Driving Climate Across the North Atlantic video
http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org/?sid=e.f.nao.20040910&src=l

Lesson 18
Greenhouse effect article
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/367.html

Lesson 19
Maps of population, CO2 emissions, and wealth
http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/rfl/web/hallbio/maps/

Lesson 20
Global warming graphs
* Temperature vs CO2 levels over 40,000 years - http://www.grida.no/climate/vital/02.htm
* CO2 levels over the last 50 years - http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/images/maunaloa_CO2graph.jpg
* Medieval Warming vs Little Ice Age graph -
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Lesson 21
Archived in Ice video
http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org/?sid=e.f.glaciers.20050331&src=l

Lesson 22
Solar radiation and cloud cover data
Evidence for global dimming articles
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/contrail.html
Background information on evidence for global dimming
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/dimm-nf.html

Lesson 23
"September's Science" article
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20020511/fob1.asp
Information on "Dimming the Sun" video
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/

Lesson 24
Hurricane article and video
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/goes/hurricanes/#

Lesson 25