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Big Idea: The transfer of energy through the atmosphere creates weather and is affected by climate change.

Coal and natural gas fueled generator near Hanna, Alberta, Canada

Generating Electricity: Fossil Fuels

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Learn how energy from fossil fuels can be used to generate electricity.

Jean Paquin outside

Jean Paquin

Water Resources Analyst Engineer at Rio Tinto

Jean Paquin is a Water Resources Analyst Engineer at Rio Tinto.
Solar power illustration

Generating Electricity: Solar Cells

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Learn how energy from the Sun can be used to generate electricity.

Weather map of Canada

Weather: Atmospheric Pressure

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Learn about the layers of the atmosphere, atmospheric pressure, pressure systems and fronts.

Timothy Burkhart

Query a Career Profile

Lessons

Students will explore career profiles and relate them to what they are learning in science class.

Cow

Cows, Methane, and Climate Change

STEM Explained

How do beef and dairy cows contribute to climate change? Livestock agriculture is a source of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

Krysten Rutherford

Krysten Rutherford

Career Profiles

PhD Candidate, Oceanography

Krysten Rutherford is a PhD Candidate of Oceanography at Dalhousie University.
Dense tropical rainforest

Tropical Rainforest Biome

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Learn about the location, plants, animals, human impacts and conservation of tropical rainforest biome.

African savanna

Savanna Biome

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Learn about the location, plants, animals, human impacts and conservation of the savanna biome.

Sheridan Thompson sur une falaise rocheuse

Sheridan Thompson (she/her/they/them)

Career Profiles

Doctoral Candidate

Sheridan Thompson is a Doctoral Candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Variety of plant groups in Banff National Park, Alberta

Plant Taxonomy

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Learn about the categories, or phylum, of the plant kingdom with examples from each.

Leaf and the Sun

Plant Functions

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Learn about the important plant functions of photosynthesis, respiration and transpiration

Scott Kelly et Terry Virts inspectent le système d’élimination du dioxyde de carbone de la SSI (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)

Carbon Dioxide on Earth and on the ISS

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Carbon dioxide is an important part of the air on Earth and in space. What is carbon dioxide? How is it measured? How can it affect us mentally and physically?

Why is rain not salty?

Why is rain not salty?

Hands-on Activities

Make a model of the water cycle and find out how water moves around on planet Earth.

A melting world-shaped glacier

What is Ocean Warming and Why Does It Matter?

STEM Explained

Oceans absorb the greatest amount of solar radiation on Earth. Ocean warming can lead to glaciers melting and ocean acidification.