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Lesson Plan: Data Centers, Local Communities, and the Real Cost of the Digital Economy

March 9, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

‘The digital colonization of flyover states’: how datacenters are tearing small-town America apart   The rapid rollout of datacenters across

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A.I. Could Soon Need as Much Electricity as an Entire Country

Lesson Plan: Energy Demands and The Environmental Impact from AI Data Centers

April 10, 2025 Ann S. Michaelsen

Grade Level: High School (Grades 10-12) Subject: Environmental Science / Technology Overview: This lesson examines the escalating energy demands of

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Lesson Plan: Analyzing the Impact of Recent U.S. Executive Orders on Climate Policy

January 27, 2025 Ann S. Michaelsen

Grade Level: High School and Undergraduate Subject: Environmental Policy, Political Science On the heels of the hottest year in recorded

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Lesson Plan: The Impact of Bottled Water on Health and the Environment

October 10, 2024 Ann S. Michaelsen

New research challenges the common belief that bottled water is the safest drinking option. Scientists from Weill Cornell Medicine in

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Lesson Plan: Innovative Wildfire Tracking Technology

July 21, 2024 Ann S. Michaelsen

Balloons will surf wind currents to track wildfires Urban Sky will deploy high-altitude balloons over Colorado this year to prove

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Lesson Plan: Unraveling the Recycling Mystery: The Case of Plastic

April 10, 2024 Ann S. Michaelsen

Trash or Recycling? Why Plastic Keeps Us Guessing. Did you know the ♻ symbol doesn’t mean something is actually recyclable?

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Lesson plan; What will Spain look like when it runs out of water?

March 7, 2024 Ann S. Michaelsen

When Spanish engineers built a reservoir in Catalonia in the 1960s, they flooded the town of Sant Romà de Sau

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Lesson plan; Killer whale filmed absolutely destroying great white shark, and it has scientists worried

March 4, 2024 Ann S. Michaelsen

Lesson Plan: Ocean Kings and Queens – Killer Whales and Great White Sharks It may seem that the true ruler

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Lesson plan; “Tackling Plastic Pollution: From Awareness to Action”

February 12, 2024 Ann S. Michaelsen

Lesson objective: To understand the causes and consequences of plastic pollution and explore possible solutions. BBC Science Focus: Based on

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Lesson plan; Reusable Water Bottles and Bacteria

January 29, 2024 Ann S. Michaelsen

Your reusable water bottle is likely much dirtier than you think. Here’s how to clean it properly A microbiologist explains

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Lesson Plan: Plastic Recycling and Climate Change

December 11, 2023 Ann S. Michaelsen

How to teach your students about plastic recycling and its impact on climate change Based on this article from MIT

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