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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Polar Lab
"Overview: Using a combination of clickable 360 degree landscapes, 2D and 3D videos, animations, interviews with scientists, and mini-games, the Polar Lab takes players onto the glacier ice and into the lab in search of...
Polar Bears Go with the Floes Board Games
"Overview: In this 45-60 minute high-stakes board game, everyone wins or everyone loses. As they play, groups of three to four children ages 8 to 13 build an understanding of how human actions impact global change. As te...
Poker Chip Model: Global Carbon Pools and Fluxes
"Overview: This short activity provides a way to improve understanding of a frequently-published diagram of global carbon pools and fluxes. Students create a scaled 3-D visual of carbon reservoirs and the movement of car...
Plum's Island Explorer: Land and Water
"Overview: This is an interactive video in which students navigate around a virtual island while learning about the characteristics of land formations and bodies of water. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental S...
Plugged in to CO2
"Overview: In this classroom activity, students measure the energy use of various appliances and electronics and calculate how much carbon dioxide (CO2) is released to produce that energy. Subject: Environmental Science...
Plant for the Planet
"Overview: This video describes the foundation Plant for the Planet, a foundation created by a 9-year-old German boy, Felix. This foundation has planted more than 500,000 trees in Germany, which he says help sequester ca...
Pixels on Fire
"Overview: In this activity, students use measurement and area skills to learn about remote detection of wildfires from space. After detecting mock wildfires with mobile devices, students then study satellite-data visual...
Pika Models + Climate Change
"Overview: Students explore the life of pikas, tiny mammals that live in alpine areas, and how they are being impacted by climate change. After a brief introduction which includes a reading, a short video, and a story th...
Photosynthesis: Calculating Biomass and Carbon Storage in Trees
"Overview: In this lesson students measure the diameter of trees to determine the biomass of the tree and how much carbon the tree is taking up during photosynthesis. Teaching tip: The topic of the lesson is a tree's...
Phenology Trends and Climate Change in Minnesota
"Overview: In this module, students will practice answering a specific question about how climate change has affected the flowering date in American elm trees. After students learn to manipulate the elm data set, build g...
Phenology Example
"Overview: This collection of learning activities allows students to explore phenology, phenological changes over time, and how these changes fit into the larger context of climate change. Students explore patterns of so...
The Pentagon and Climate Change - Earth: The Operators' Manual
"Overview: This video highlights the Pentagon's focus on climate change as the military examines potential risks, strategic responses, and impacts of climate change on future military and humanitarian missions. In 2010,...
Paleotempestology Lab
"Overview: This activity introduces students to stratigraphic correlation and the dating of geologic materials, using coastal sediment cores that preserve a record of past hurricane activity. Subject: Environmental Stud...
Paleoclimates and Pollen
"Overview: In this activity, students examine pictures of pollen grains representing several species that show the structural differences that scientists use for identification. Students analyze model soil samples with m...
March of the Polar Bears: Global Change, Sea Ice, and Wildlife Migration
"Overview: In this activity students use NASA satellite data to study changes in temperature and snow-ice coverage in the South Beaufort Sea, Alaska. They will then correlate the data with USGS ground tracking of polar b...
Mapping a Personal Story of Environmental Change
"Overview: This is a very simple but effective lesson that engages students with drawing a map of their local environment, then annotating their map with environmental changes they've observed. The activity taps into hig...
Mann and Ramsdorf on IPCC 2013
"Overview: In this video, Michael Mann and Peter Ramsdorf explore some of the information from the 2013 IPCC 5th report in light of public perceptions of climate science. Subject: Physical Science Level: Middle School,...
Making a Solar Oven
"Overview: This activity from the Department of Energy provides background information about solar ovens and instructions on building a simple model solar cooker. Subject: Technology, Environmental Studies, Physical Sci...
Making Sense of Data - Tree Growth and Climate
"Overview: In this learning activity, students analyze an actual dataset of the influence of temperature on tree growth. They use mathematical and statistical concepts like slope equations and lines of best fit to determ...
Paleoclimate Reconstruction Lab
"Overview: In this activity, students reconstruct past climates using lake varves as a proxy to interpret long-term climate patterns. Students use data from sediment cores to understand annual sediment deposition and how...