Appendix
Unit References
Lesson 1 Get in Touch with Trees!
Ann Arbor Energy Commission Special Subcommittee. (2012). City of Ann Arbor Climate
Action Plan. Retrieved from http://www.a2gov.org/departments/systems-planning/
energy/Documents/CityofAnnArborClimateActionPlan_low%20res_12_17_12.pdf
Forests: Types of Trees. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/
forests/types_of_trees.cfm
Kids Discover. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.kidsdiscover.com/infographics/infographicphotosynthesis-for-kid/
Seasholes, K., & DeVoil, R. (1998). Environmental Factors That Affect Plant Growth. Retrieved
from http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/mg/botany/environmental.html
Lesson 2 Connections to Climate Change
International Year of Chemistry Project. (2011). Lesson 2: Is Climate Change Happening?
Retrieved from http://www.explainingclimatechange.ca/Climate Change/Lessons/
Lesson 2/lesson2.html
National Geographic. (2014). Weather Versus Climate Change. In Cosmos: A Spacetime
Odyssey. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBdxDFpDp_k
National Science Foundation. (n.d.). How Do We Know? An Introduction to What Science
is Telling Us About Climate Change. In To What Degree?. Retrieved from http://
science360.gov/playlist/know-introduction-science-telling-climate-change/1ffd57f0bdae-4baa-9e81-346bcaa32c93
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (n.d.). Climate Change Basics. Retrieved from http://
epa.gov/climatechange/students/
Utah Education Network. (n.d). Climate Science in a Nutshell: What is Climate? In Climate
Science in a Nutshell. Retrieved from http://www.uen.org/climate/videos.shtml
Lesson 3 Down to the Core!
Barnes, B. and W. Wagner. (2004). Michigan Trees: A guide to the trees of the Great Lakes
Region. The University of Michigan Press. Retrieved from https://www.press.umich.edu/
pdf/0472113526-fm.pdf
Cummiskey, T. (Ed.). (2005). Fun Facts About Oaks and Acorns. Retrieved from http://www.
jeffersoncountyconservation.com/newsletter.html
DeVries, L. (2014). White Oak - Medicinal Herb Info. Retrieved from http://medicinalherbinfo.
org/herbs/WhiteOak.html
Hall, D. (2011). Silver-spotted skipper - Epargyreus clarus (Cramer). Retrieved from http://
entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/bfly/silver-spotted_skipper.htm
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. (2015). Quercus rubra (Northern red oak). Retrieved
from http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=QURU
Little, E.L., Jr. (1977) Atlas of United States Trees Vol. 4, Minor Eastern hardwoods: U.S.
Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication 1342, 17 p.,230 maps. Retrieved
from http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/data/little/
Unit References
Michigan Historical Museum. (n.d.). [Page missing]. Retrieved from http://www.hal.state.mi.us/
mhc/museum/explore/museums/hismus/prehist/lumber/images/shntyboy.gif
Nienstaedt, H., & Zasada, J. (n.d.). Picea glauca (Moench) Voss - White Spruce. Retrieved from
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/silvics_manual/Volume_1/picea/glauca.htm
Ober, H. (2011). The Value of Oaks to Wildlife. University of Florida IFAS Extension. Retrieved
from http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/uw292
Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry. (n.d.). [Page missing]. Retrieved
from http://ohiodnr.com/trees/locust_bk/tabid/5380/Default.aspx
Ohio Department of Natural Resources. (2012). Nuisance Wildlife. Retrieved from http://
wildlife.ohiodnr.gov/species-and-habitats/nuisance-wildlife
Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry. (n.d.). [Page missing]. Retrieved
from https://ohiodnr.com/forestry/trees/spruce_colorado/tabid/5420/Default.aspx
Rudolph, P. (n.d.). Pinus resinosa Ait. - Red Pine. Retrieved from http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/
silvics_manual/Volume_1/pinus/resinosa.htm
Sander, I. (n.d.). Quercus rubra L. - Northern Red Oak. Retrieved from http://www.na.fs.fed.us/
pubs/silvics_manual/volume_2/quercus/rubra.htm
U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service. (2002, February 5).
Plant Fact Sheet: Eastern White Pine. Retrieved from http://plants.usda.gov/factsheet/
pdf/fs_pist.pdf
U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service. (n.d.). Plants
Profile for Pinus resinosa (red pine). Retrieved from http://plants.usda.gov/core/
profile?symbol=PIRE
U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service. (n.d.). Plants Profile
for Pinus strobus (eastern white pine). Retrieved from http://plants.usda.gov/core/
profile?symbol=PIST
U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service. (n.d.). Plants
Profile for Quercus alba (white oak). Retrieved from http://plants.usda.gov/core/
profile?symbol=qual
U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service. (n.d.). Plants Profile
for Quercus rubra (northern red oak). Retrieved from http://plants.usda.gov/core/
profile?symbol=QURU
U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service. (n.d.). Plants Profile
for Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust). Retrieved from http://plants.usda.gov/core/
profile?symbol=ROPS
U.S. Forest Service Fire Effects Information System (FEIS). (2015, June 16). Pinus resinosa.
Retrieved from http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/pinres/all.html
U.S. Forest Service Fire Effects Information System (FEIS). (2015, June 16). Quercus alba.
Retrieved from http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/quealb/all.html
U.S. Forest Service Fire Effects Information System (FEIS). (2015, June 16). Robinia
pseudoacacia. Retrieved from http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/robpse/
all.html
Unit References
Lesson 4 Scientific Modeling
CK-12 Foundation. (2015). Scientific Model. Retrieved from http://www.ck12.org/earthscience/Scientific-Models/lesson/Scientific-Models/
Lesson 5 Making Sense of Data
Maryland State Department of Education. (2014). Components of Exemplary Line Graphs
and Scatter Plots. Retrieved from http://www.mdk12.org/instruction/curriculum/
mathematics/graph_line-scatter.html
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). (n.d.). Examining X-Y (Scatter) Plots. Retrieved
from https://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/help/user_guide/graph/scatter.asp
Lesson 6 Climate and Plant Growth
Desert - Biome Card
Blue Planet Biomes. (2000). Desert. Retrieved from http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/desert.htm
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (2015). Desert. Retrieved from http://
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Experiments/Biome/biodesert.php
University of California Museum of Paleontology. (2015). The desert biome. Retrieved from
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/deserts.php
Northern Coniferous Forest - Biome Card
Blue Planet Biomes. (2000). Taiga. Retrieved from http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/taiga.htm
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (2015). Coniferous Forest. Retrieved from
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Experiments/Biome/bioconiferous.php
Virginia Tech Forest Biology and Dendrology Education. (2010). Northern Coniferous Forest
Biome. Retrieved from http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/forsite/ncfbiome.htm
Temperate Deciduous Forest - Biome Card
Blue Planet Biomes. (2001). Deciduous Forest. Retrieved from http://www.blueplanetbiomes.
org/deciduous_forest.htm
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (2015). Temperate Deciduous Forest.
Retrieved from http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Experiments/Biome/biotemperate.
php
Tropical Rainforest - Biome Card
Blue Planet Biomes. (2001). Tropical Rainforest. Retrieved from http://www.blueplanetbiomes.
org/rainforest.htm
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (2015). Rainforest. Retrieved from http://
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Experiments/Biome/biorainforest.php
Tundra - Biome Card
Blue Planet Biomes. (2002). Tundra. Retrieved from http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/tundra.
htm
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (2015). Tundra. Retrieved from http://
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Experiments/Biome/biotundra.php
University of California Museum of Paleontology. (2015). The tundra biome. Retrieved from
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/tundra.php
Unit References
Lesson 7 Regional Impacts and Predictions
Climate Change Impacts Articles
Abatzoglou, J., & Kolden, C. (2011). Climate Change in Western US Deserts: Potential for
Increased Wildfire and Invasive Annual Grasses. Rangeland Ecology & Management,
64(5), 471-478. Retrieved from http://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_Abatzoglou/
publication/249993502_Climate_Change_in_Western_US_Deserts_Potential_for_
Increased_Wildfire_and_Invasive_Annual_Grasses/links/02e7e51e83528788b0000000.
pdf
Archer, S., & Predick, K. (2008). Climate Change and Ecosystems of the Southwestern United
States. 23-28. Retrieved from http://www.brightsourceenergy.com/stuff/contentmgr/
files/0/d301e9d754051145f369f8579f999146/attachment/rala_30_03_23_28.pdf
Cole, K., Schmidt, L., & Puckett, C. (2011). Uncertain Future for Joshua Trees Projected with
Climate Change. Retrieved from http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2723#.
VVQ92JPOHJe
Deserts. (2012). In S. Philander (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change,
Second Edition (2nd ed., pp. 441-443). SAGE Publications.
Dierkes, C. Ohio State University Climate Change Outreach Team. 2015. “Accounting for
Carbon” Retrieved from <http://changingclimate.osu.edu/features/accounting-forcarbon>
Effects of climate change on tropical rainforests: The evidence [Page missing]. (n.d.). Retrieved
May 14, 2015, from https://web.duke.edu/nicholas/bio217/jmz28/effects3.html
Feeley K.J., Hurtado J., Saatchi S., Silman M.R., Clark D.B. 2013. Compositional shifts in Costa
Rican forests due to climate-driven species migrations. Global Change Biology, 19(11),
3472–3480.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (n.d.). The Regional Impacts of Climate Change.
Retrieved from http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/sres/regional/index.php?idp=16
Koven, C.D. (2013). Boreal carbon loss due to poleward shift in low-carbon ecosystems.
Nature Geoscience. 6, 452–456.
Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Research Department. (n.d.). Vegas FAQs.
Retrieved from http://www.lvcva.com/includes/content/images/media/docs/2014Vegas-FAQs.pdf
Laurance, W. (2011). The World’s Tropical Forests Are Already Feeling the Heat. Retrieved
from http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_worlds_tropical_forests_are_already_feeling_
the_heat/2397/
Nepstad, D. (2007). The Amazon’s Vicious Cycles : Drought and Fire in the Greenhouse. World
Wildlife Fund, 1-23. Retrieved from http://assets.panda.org/downloads/amazonas_
eng_04_12b_web.pdf
New South Wales Office of Environment & Heritage. (2014). Wind erosion. Retrieved from
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/soildegradation/winder.htm
One World Education. (2014). Deforestation in the Amazon. Retrieved from http://www.
oneworldeducation.org/deforestation-amazon.
Parks, N. (2010). The Future of Spring Bud Burst: Looking at the Possibilities. Science
Findings, 128, 1-6. Retrieved from http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/sciencef/scifi128.pdf
Unit References
Perlman, H. (2014). Snowmelt - The Water Cycle. Retrieved May 14, 2015, from https://water.
usgs.gov/edu/watercyclesnowmelt.html
Rustad, L., Campbell, J., Dukes, J., Huntington, T., Fallon Lambert, K., Mohan, J., &
Rodenhouse, N. (2012). Changing Climate, Changing Forests: The Impacts of Climate
Change on Forests of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada. US Forest
Service Northern Research Station General Technical Report, NRS-99, 1-48. Retrieved
from http://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/gtr/gtr_nrs99.pdf
Steltzer, H., Landry, C., Painter, T., Anderson, J., & Ayres, E. (2009). Biological consequences
of earlier snowmelt from desert dust deposition in alpine landscapes. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(28), 1162911634. Abstract retrieved from http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/crc_research/400/
Thomas Gilbert, M. (2012). “Invasive plants may threaten Alaska’s native berries.” The Tundra
Drums. Retrieved from http://www.iab.uaf.edu/news/iitn_pdfs/503.pdf
United Nations Environment Programme. (2006). Global Deserts Outlook. Retrieved from
http://www.unep.org/geo/gdoutlook/045.asp
United States Environmental Protection Agency. (2013). Climate Impacts in Alaska. Retrieved
from http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/impacts-adaptation/alaska.html
United States Environmental Protection Agency. (2013). Climate Impacts in the Southwest.
Retrieved from http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/impacts-adaptation/southwest.html
United States Environmental Protection Agency. (2014). The Impact of Climate Change on
the Mid-Atlantic Region. Retrieved from http://www.epa.gov/reg3artd/globclimate/
ccimpact.html
United States Environmental Protection Agency. (2015). Adaptation Examples in Alaska.
Retrieved from http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/impacts-adaptation/alaskaadaptation.html
United States Environmental Protection Agency. (2015). Climate Impacts in Alaska Retrieved
from http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/impacts-adaptation/alaska.html
United States Geological Survey. (2009). Our Dynamic Desert. Retrieved from http://pubs.
usgs.gov/of/2004/1007/climates.html
Woods Hole Research Center. (n.d.). Ecosystems Studies & Management: Boreal Forest &
Arctic Tundra Dynamics. Retrieved from http://www.whrc.org/ecosystem/highlatitude/
Yale Environment 360. (2010). Arctic tundra is being lost as far north quickly warms. Retrieved
from http://e360.yale.edu/feature/arctic_tundra_is_being_lost_as_far_north_quickly_
warms/2229/
Lesson 8 Student Actions
United States Environmental Protection Agency. (2007). What You Can Do. Retrieved from
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/
Field Trip
Alderson, C. (2006). Common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica L.). Retrieved from http://www.
columbia.edu/itc/cerc/danoff-burg/invasion_bio/inv_spp_summ/Rhamnus_cathartica_L.
html
Unit References
Armstrong, W. (1999). Blowing In The Wind: Seeds & Fruits Dispersed By Wind. Retrieved
from http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plfeb99.htm
Athman, J., & Monroe, M. (2002). Enhancing Natural Resource Programs with Field Trips. IFAS
Extension, 1-4.
Field Studies Council. (2007). Do One Thing - Autumn Term 2008. Retrieved from http://www.
field-studies-council.org/breathingplaces/food_for_us.htm
Illinois State Museum. (2000). Quercus alba. Retrieved from http://www.museum.state.il.us/
muslink/forest/htmls/trees/Q-alba.html
Jabr, F. (2014). A New Generation of American Chestnut Trees May Redefine America’s
Forests. Scientific American. Retrieved from http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/
chestnut-forest-a-new-generation-of-american-chestnut-trees-may-redefine-americas-forests/