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Climate Change: Great American Desert? DLESE Reviewed Collection
http://ois.unomaha.edu/casde/casde/lessons/grass/teacherp.htm
From DLESE Community Collection (DCC)
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In this activity, students will assume the role of agronomists gathering and evaluating information about climate change and its possible effects on grasslands in western Nebraska and eastern Colorado. They will examine data related to temperature change, examine satellite imagery of Garden County Nebraska, and examine different varieties of grasses. They will then develop and present to the class an hypothesis about plant growth and an experiment to test it. Links are provided to tools, datasets, references, and tutorials needed for the activity.
Intended for grade levels:
  • High (9-12)
Type of resource:
  • For the classroom:
    • Classroom activity
    • Computer activity
    • Guide for instructor
  • To be supplied
Subject:
  • Climatology
  • Ecology
  • Other
Technical requirements:
RealPlayer plug-in
More specific technical requirements. DataSlate CD is required. The CD and teacher guide are distributed free of charge to individual teachers requesting the software from a school address. More extensive duplications of the CD can be coordinated for a minimum cost. It can also be downloaded as a zip file from http://ois.unomaha.edu/essea/dataslate/copyrite.htm
Cost / Copyright:
No cost
Copyright and other restrictions information are unknown.
DLESE Catalog ID: DLESE-000-000-007-582
Educational standards:
  • National Science Education Standards (NSES):
    • 5-8:
      • Unifying concepts and processes:
        • Systems, order, and organization
      • A - Science as inquiry:
        • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
      • C - Life science:
        • Diversity and adaptations of organisms
    • 9-12:
      • Unifying concepts and processes:
        • Systems, order, and organization
      • A - Science as inquiry:
        • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
      • C - Life science:
        • Interdependence of organisms
      • D - Earth and space science:
        • Energy in the earth system
      • F - Science in personal / social perspectives:
        • Environmental quality
Related resources:
This resource is part of 'Institute for Global Environmental Strategies'
http://www.strategies.org/
Resource contact / Creator / Publisher:
Publisher: Consortium for the Application of Spacedata for Digital Earth (CASDE)
http://ois.unomaha.edu/casde/

Contact: Bob Pawloski
Office of Internet Studies
University of Nebraska at Omaha