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Subtopic: Energy Transfer

Resource Grade Level Media Type
Alaska Tsunami  

Alaska Tsunami
In this video adapted from Alaska Sea Grant, discover why multiple tsunamis resulted from the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Anatomy of a Tsunami  

Anatomy of a Tsunami
Using visual models and other graphics, this interactive activity from NOVA Online reveals details of the December 26, 2004 tsunami that collided with coasts around the Indian Ocean.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Antarctic Ice Movement: Part II  

Antarctic Ice Movement: Part II
Within Antarctic ice sheets are fast-moving streams of ice. This video segment adapted from NOVA hypothesizes about how ice streams are the result of warming at the end of the last ice age.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Bear Creek Wind Farm Tour  

Bear Creek Wind Farm Tour
In this interactive, a construction project manager explains the process of constructing a wind farm, its challenges and benefits.

9-12 Flash Interactive
Compare and Contrast Warm and Cold Fronts  

Compare and Contrast Warm and Cold Fronts
This visualization from McDougal Littell/TERC visualizes the movement of warm and cold fronts and the cloud types that are generated as a result.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Convective Cloud Systems  

Convective Cloud Systems
This video segment adapted from the Atmospheric Radiation Program explains the differences in the formation of tropical convective cloud systems over islands and over the ocean.

3-8 QuickTime Video
Earth as a System  

Earth as a System
This visualization adapted from NASA maps progressive global changes onto a rotating globe. Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere are shown to be dynamic and interconnected.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Earth System: Ice and Global Warming  

Earth System: Ice and Global Warming
This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explains ice's role in the Earth system, highlighting the delicate balance that could be upset with a continued rise in temperature due to climate change.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Examine Global Surface Currents  

Examine Global Surface Currents
This visualization from McDougal Littell/TERC visualizes the relationship between global wind directions and the direction of ocean surface currents.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Global Warming: Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect  

Global Warming: Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect
This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE demonstrates the physical property of carbon dioxide that causes the greenhouse effect.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Global Warming: The Physics of the Greenhouse Effect  

Global Warming: The Physics of the Greenhouse Effect
This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE examines the greenhouse effect, its role in keeping Earth habitable, and the industrial changes that have led to an increase in the planet's average temperature.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Great Ocean Conveyor Belt: Part II  

Great Ocean Conveyor Belt: Part II
A substantial increase in freshwater running into the northern Atlantic Ocean could dramatically affect climate and global ocean currents. This audio segment from National Public Radio presents viewpoints from scientists studying changes in ocean circulation.

6-12 QuickTime Audio
How Hurricanes Form  

How Hurricanes Form
This animation from NASA illustrates the phases in the formation of a hurricane.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Hurricane Katrina: Possible Causes  

Hurricane Katrina: Possible Causes
This media-rich essay from NOVA scienceNow explores new research into hurricanes that may help explain Katrina's devastating impact and discusses the possibility that global warming played a role.

6-12 HTML Document
Infrared Gallery  

Infrared Gallery
How would your world look if you saw heat instead of light? In this interactive resource produced for Teachers' Domain, see what familiar objects look like through an infrared camera and watch infrared videos of geysers, mudpots, and hot springs.

3-12 Flash Interactive
Infrared: More Than Your Eyes Can See  

Infrared: More Than Your Eyes Can See
In this video segment adapted from NASA, astronomer Michelle Thaller introduces the world of infrared light and demonstrates how infrared cameras allow us to see more than what the naked eye can perceive.

3-12 QuickTime Video
A New Theory of Lightning  

A New Theory of Lightning
In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, follow scientists as they test a new theory suggesting that lightning here on Earth is triggered by cosmic rays from far-away dying stars.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Ocean Temperatures and Climate Patterns  

Ocean Temperatures and Climate Patterns
This animation from The New Media Studio illustrates how the atmosphere and ocean together shape wind, current, and rainfall patterns in the tropical Pacific.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Once and Future Tsunamis  

Once and Future Tsunamis
In this interactive world map from NOVA Online explore nine key tsunamis dating from 3.5 billion years ago and discover what experts have learned from studying them.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Siting Wind Power  

Siting Wind Power
Wind Power Curves and Community Considerations

9-12 Lesson Plan
Solar Car  

Solar Car
In this video from DragonflyTV, follow the investigation of Isaac and Anjali as they record, measure, and analyze data about how the Sun's position in the sky affects a solar-powered car's speed.

4-8 QuickTime Video
Students Measure Changes in Lake Ice and Snow  

Students Measure Changes in Lake Ice and Snow
In this video adapted from KUAC-TV and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, students provide field measurements that researchers need in order to understand how lakes in Alaska are changing as a result of climate change.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Vertical Structure of the Atmosphere  

Vertical Structure of the Atmosphere
This interactive resource produced for Teachers' Domain describes the changes in temperature, pressure, and gaseous composition of the atmosphere as the altitude increases.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Wave of the Future  

Wave of the Future
This media-rich essay from NOVA Online describes the challenges involved in installing a warning system for tsunamis in the Indian Ocean.

6-12 HTML Document
What Causes the Gulf Stream?  

What Causes the Gulf Stream?
This video segment adapted from NOVA visualizes how Earth's rotation and uneven heating from the Sun cause prevailing winds and influence ocean surface currents. An animation and infrared satellite image illustrate the shape and direction of the Gulf Stream System in the Atlantic Ocean.

6-12 QuickTime Video