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High Adventure Science
This collection of lessons is built around the NSF funded High-Adventure Science project—a set of online curriculum modules for middle and high school science classrooms.
The modules integrate computer models and real world data to help students examine contemporary unanswered questions in Earth science—think climate change, the availability of freshwater, land management, and more. Students explore evidence and discuss the issues of certainty—and uncertainty—with the models and data. Each lesson in the collection includes five activities with complete directions for classroom integration, alignment to national standards, and additional resources for student learning.
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What Is the Future of Earth's Climate?
Evaluate how scientists can be certain that Earth is warming while not being entirely certain about how much Earth will warm.
Grades 7–12 | 3.75 hours
What Are Our Energy Choices?
Consider the advantages and disadvantages of different energy sources for generating electricity, with a focus on the hydraulic fracturing process.
Grades 7–12 | 3.75 hours
Will There Be Enough Fresh Water?
Explore the distribution and uses of fresh water on Earth and examine how humans can preserve supplies of fresh water for the future.
Grades 7–12 | 3.75 hours
Will the Air Be Clean Enough To Breathe?
Explore the interactions of factors, including human development, that affect a region's air quality.
Grades 7–12 | 3.75 hours
Can We Feed the Growing Population?
Examine the resources that make up our agricultural system and compare the effect of different management strategies on the land.
Grades 7–12 | 3.75 hours
Is There Life in Space?
Discover how scientists search for distant planets and how they determine whether those astronomical bodies could be habitable.
Grades 7–12 | 3.75 hours
Funded by the National Science Foundation