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Learners will create a model that demonstrates the principles of kinetic molecular theory.

A small blue house wearing a scarf sitting on top of a white radiator.

Heat: Outdoors and Indoors

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Learn about the importance of heat, its sources and how people control it indoors.

Heat pipe in a laptop

Heat and Space Missions

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Learn about how people control heat in spacecraft such as the ISS and Orion.

Vaccine cooler bag

How can you design an insulated container?

Hands-on Activities

How can you design a container that keeps something cold?

Earth with thermometer

Let's Talk Climate Change: Resources

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Discover a set of resources to give you background knowledge on climate change.

Cars driving through thick smog

How Vehicles Pollute the Air

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Learn how vehicles affect air quality, including their contribution to smog.

Insulated food containers

Design & Build an Insulated Food Container

Lessons

Students will design and build a prototype of a device to keep food cold for a specified time.

Green leaf inside

Green Energy

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An overview of environmentally-friendly ways to generate electricity and power

Flood water with traffic sign submerged.

Earth Month: Climate Change

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Discover the probable causes, likely effects, and potential ways to mitigate climate change.

Earth with thermometer

Climate Math

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Learn about how to calculate temperature anomalies as a way of understanding how our climate is changing.

Illustration of the Earth

Summer Symposium Series: Climate Career Resources

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A career focused on climate change and sustainability would let you help people by working to help solve the biggest problems of our time.

Photographie inbtermittente des étoiles de la Voie lactée, dans l'hémisphère sud du Chili, par Rodrigo Vidal.

Rodrigo Vidal

Career Profiles

Architect, Teacher

My work helps people achieve the most comfortable temperature in their building.
Hands holding a hot mug

Introduction to Heat Transfer

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Learn about the different ways that heat is transferred.

Our climate is changing

Introduction to Climate Change

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Learn more about the causes and impacts of global climate change.

Casting hot iron

What Causes Hot Things to Glow?

STEM Explained

Getting electrons excited by heat can cause certain materials to give off visible light when heated - like filaments in light bulbs.

Hurricane Katrina as seen from space

Where Do Hurricanes Come From?

STEM Explained

Hurricanes are a kind of tropical cyclone. But where do they come from? And why do they cause so much damage? This article will answer all your storm-related questions!