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Tag: "environment"

Lesson Plan October 16 2016

Student Reporting Labs STEM Lesson Plan: Solar Cars and S'mores

Can you think of innovative ways we can use the sun to provide us with energy? In this NewsHour lesson, students will design their own solar cars and research how to make their vehicles ecologically friendly.

Lesson Plan October 03 2016

Student Reporting Labs: Talking trash and your environment

OverviewGlobally, plastic is the most abundant type of marine litter. This activity allows students…

Daily Video August 26 2016

Lionfish-zapping robot offers solution to invasive species

Invasive lionfish have devastating effects on native species and ecosystems in the Western Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, but robotic technology offers a new way to stem their spread.

Lesson Plan June 07 2016

PBS Student Reporting Labs STEM lesson plan: Climate change and your community

Ninety-seven percent of scientists currently agree that global surface temperatures have incre…

Post June 07 2016

Third mass coral bleaching in 18 years threatens Great Barrier Reef

by Amanda Wilcox One of the seven wonders of the natural world is currently in peril: Austr…

Lesson Plan May 31 2016

Take a poll, debate the issue: Environmental policy

Where do students stand on environmental policy? In this lesson plan, have students take a poll before and after they debate the issue to see if their views change.

Daily Video March 31 2016

Colorado explores new, stinky source of alternative energy

In Colorado, a growing industry relies on human and animal waste as a new source of renewable energy.

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Daily Video January 04 2016

Out of control crayfish threaten nation’s deepest lake

Warmer temperatures in the United States’ deepest lake may explain the growth of a crayfish population that now threatens the lake’s long-time resident, the Mazama newt, and other wildlife.

Student Voices December 17 2015

Paris Agreement is "first step" in addressing threat of climate change

Before I took a class on human impact on the environment, I would not have considered myself an environmentalist. Sure, our use of the environment was destroying the earth, but we wouldn’t see the consequences anytime soon, at least not here. Right?

Daily Video December 08 2015

Environmental watchdog group monitors pollution in China

In China, decades of rapid industrial growth have resulted in largely unrestricted environmental pollution affecting millions of people.

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