CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
"Overview: The students get to be climate detectives as they make a model of sediment cores using different kinds of glass beads and sand. They learn how to examine the types, numbers, and conditions of diatom skeletons in the model sediment cores and tell som...
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What Is Ocean Acidification?
"Overview: This static image from NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Carbon Program offers a visually compelling and scientifically sound image of the sea water carbonate chemistry process that leads to ocean...
What Is Climate?
"Overview: This video provides entertaining animations about the similarities and differences between weather and climate. It is very simple and fast. References are provided at the end of the video. Students learn th...
What I Can Do About Climate Change Educator Guide
"Overview: This resource from MIT engages students in a conversation about their unique skills and perspectives that can contribute to climate change solutions. In this discussion based activity, students will listen to...
What Can a Tree Do For You?
"Overview: Using real data, this hands-on activity investigates different types of trees and forests as carbon sinks and stores. This activity follows the scientific method as students collect their own data and analy...
What Can We Do for Coral?
"Overview: This series of videos does an excellent job introducing coral bleaching and touches upon the subject of a project that breeds super corals. It also addresses climate solutions and things that everyone can do a...
What Are Nature-based Solutions?
"Overview: This video introduces the components necessary to describe climate adaptation and mitigation projects as nature-based. Teaching tip: Five components of nature-based solutions are identified in this video by...
What About the Ozone Hole?
"Overview: This video provides history on product development by General Motors and other industries that led to the release of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). It explains the connection between global warming and the ozone...
West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide: Modeling our Future Climate
"Overview: In this video, students see how data from the ice core record is used to help scientists predict the future of our climate. Video features ice cores extracted from the WAIS Divide, a research station on the We...
Weather and Climate Events
"Overview: This detailed animated map shows global weather and climate events from the beginning of 2009 to the present. As the animation plays, specific events are highlighted to provide context and details for the view...
The tip of the iceberg
"Overview: Children observe an ice cube in water and discuss the amount of ice above and below the water, discuss density of ice, and make predictions. Based on what they have observed about small ice chunks, the childre...
The impact of a global temperature rise of 4 degrees C
"Overview: This poster, viewable online, highlights some of the impacts of a global-average temperature rise of 4 degrees C above the pre-industrial age climate. Subject: Physical Science Level: Middle School, High Scho...
The impact of a global temperature rise of 4 degree Celsius
"Overview: This interactive world map shows the impact of a global temperature rise of 4 degrees Celsius on a variety of factors including agriculture, marine life, fires, weather patterns, and health. Hot Spots can be c...
Weather Stations: Winds
"Overview: Children use a toaster to generate wind and compare the appliance's heat source to Jupiter's own hot interior. They discover that convection drives wind on Jupiter and on Earth. Subject: Environmental Studies...
A guide to the energy of the Earth
"Overview: This animated video outlines Earth's energy. The video presents a progression from identifying the different energy systems to the differences between external and internal energy sources and how that energy i...
Solar Power Basics
"Overview: This introductory video summarizes the process of generating solar electricity from photovoltaic and concentrating (thermal) solar power technologies. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: M...
An abrupt global climate change event in Earth history- Evidence from the ocean
"Overview: This activity is a research project in which students explore and synthesize key paleoceanographic evidence for the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) as found in marine sediment cores collected and analy...
Weather Stations: Temperature and Pressure
"Overview: Children discover the relationship between temperature and pressure in the lower atmospheres of Jupiter and Earth. They chart the increasing temperature as they add pressure to a 2-liter soda bottle with a Fiz...
Zero-Energy Housing
"Overview: Students investigate passive solar building design with a focus on heating. Insulation, window placement, thermal mass, surface colors, and site orientation are addressed in the background materials and design...
Solar Panels for Your Home
"Overview: In this video segment from NOVA's Saved By the Sun hour-long video, students learn about photovoltaics and see how two families are using solar technologies in their homes. The video introduces the ideas of st...
Weather Stations: Storms
"Overview: Children test how cornstarch and glitter in water move when disturbed. They compare their observations with videos of Jupiter's and Earth's storm movements. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science, A...