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6.1.16

The Arctic is Melting – So What?

The activities are as follows: Teacher Guide Student activity, Level 4 Grading Rubric An adapted version of the original scientific paper Think of the North Pole as one big ice cube – a vast sheet of ice, only a few meters thick, floating over the Arctic Ocean. Historically, the amount of Arctic sea ice would be at

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1.12.16

What do trees know about rain?

The activities are as follows: Teacher Guide Student activity, Level 3 Grading Rubric An adapted version of the original scientific paper Excel spreadsheet of the full dataset for computer graphing exercises Did you know that Australia is the driest inhabited continent in the world? Because it is so dry, we need to be able to predict how

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