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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Realistic Ways You Can Combat Climate Change, Today
"Overview: This visualization offers a variety of realistic actions anyone can take to live a more sustainable lifestyle. Topics include how to create an energy efficient home, how to practice sustainable shopping, how t...
Reading Antarctica's Rock Cores
"Overview: In this activity, students learn about the tools and methods paleoclimatologists use to reconstruct past climates. In constructing sediment cores themselves, students will achieve a very good understanding of...
Rain Measurements Tell a Story
"Overview: This activity focuses on measuring, graphing, and interpreting rainfall following an 8 day rainfall event story in Boulder, Colorado from 2013. Data is from this real world example, and background materials in...
Rain Gauge Activity
"Overview: In this hands-on inquiry-based activity, students face an engineering challenge based on real-world applications. They are tasked with developing a tool they can use to measure the amount of rain that falls ea...
Quantifying The Drivers and Impacts of Natural Disturbance Events â The 2013 Colorado Floods
"Overview: Several factors contributed to the extreme flooding that occurred in Boulder, Colorado in 2013. In this data activity, students explore and visualize the data for stream discharge data collected by the United...
Puzzling Wisconsin's Biological Communities
"Overview: This is an in-depth activity that focuses on Wisconsin ecosystem characteristics and energy flow within ecosystems. The activity is lengthy, but selected parts of it could be adapted to a variety of teaching s...
Project Resilience: Resilience in Action
"Overview: In this activity, students explore resilience toolkits to better understand their value. Students then draw upon these toolkits to design a resilience plan for their school campus as the culminating task of th...
Project Resilience: Case Studies of Coastal Change
"Overview: Students use primary resources to investigate three case studies of environmental change, including how the combined effects of sea level rise and sinking land are projected to impact the Louisiana coast this...
Project Drawdown Summary of Solutions
"Overview: This resource provides an easy-to-read table summary of solutions to decrease anthropogenic releases of CO2 to the atmosphere. The sources in the data set are clickable for a deeper look into the emission sour...
Product Development and the Environment
"Overview: Students describe the steps in a product life cycle assessment and suggest ways to reduce the environmental impacts of engineered products. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Scie...
Probable Futures Map
"Overview: This interactive map allows students to explore current and future projections across a global and regional scale for different variables such as temperature and precipitation. The maps are very easy to use...
Predicting the Effects of Climate Change on Soil Loss
"Overview: In this activity, students investigate soil erosion and how a changing climate could influence erosion rates in agricultural areas. This activity is part of a larger InTeGrate module called Growing Concern. S...
Predicting Patterns: What Does La NiÃa Look Like?
"Overview: This is an activity designed to allow students who have been exposed to the El NiÃo-Southern Oscillation to analyze the La NiÃa mechanism and predict its outcomes in a case study format. Subject: Environmenta...
Predicting Glacial Futures
"Overview: This activity in a case study format explores ice loss from the Greenland ice sheet by way of outlet glaciers that flow into the ocean. Students do basic calculations and learn about data trends, rates of chan...
Precipitation Towers: Modeling Weather Data
"Overview: In this activity students use stacking cubes to graph precipitation data. In this activity students use stacking cubes as a way to graph precipitation data, comparing the precipitation averages and seasonal...
Precipitation Extremes and Community Health
"Overview: This short video explains how climate change can lead to more extreme precipitation events and more frequent flooding. Information from the CDC has succinct information about the health downsides of extreme pr...
Power for Developing Countries
"Overview: This small-group activity uses engineering concepts to design energy systems for three off-the-grid towns in Mali, Ethiopia, and Namibia. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: Middle School,...
Power Your House with Wind
"Overview: This is a hands-on activity students design, build, and test. They compare the energy-generating capacities of vertical- and horizontal- axis wind turbine prototypes they have built as potential sources for po...
Power Metering Project
"Overview: This activity focuses on applying analytic tools such as pie charts and bar graphs to gain a better understanding of practical energy use issues. It also provides experience with how different types of data co...
Potentially Kinetic
"Overview: This activity supports sense-making around kinetic and potential energy through a series of demonstrations. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: Upper Primary, Middle School Material Type:...