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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NOVA: Climate Change
"Overview: This video segment describes climate data collection from Greenland ice cores that indicate Earth's climate can change abruptly over a single decade rather than over thousands of years. The narrator describes...
NOAA View Data Exploration Tool
"Overview: This data viewing tool from NOAA offers nearly instant access to dozens of datasets about Earth through an engaging interface. Users can select data categories from atmosphere, ocean, land, cryosphere, and cli...
NOAA Temperature and Precipitation Tools
"Overview: This activity provides information on how to access and use a wealth of data and tools from NOAA to analyze climate through time. A video tutorial and background information are provided and show students how...
NOAA Sea Level Trends
"Overview: The NOAA Sea Level Trends map illustrates U.S. regional and some international trends in sea level, with arrows representing the direction and magnitude of change. Students can investigate sea level changes ar...
Living Landscapes: Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Fish
"Overview: Interactive map tool to assess how rising stream temperatures could affect native fish of the Northwest. Lesson concepts include the relationship between water temperatures, dissolved oxygen levels in streams,...
NOAA Ocean Odyssey: Ocean Currents
"Overview: This lesson provides a demonstration and lesson focused on ocean currents. The demonstration of how cold water and warm water interact is a strong learning tool for the topic. The lesson includes a demonstr...
NOAA Ocean Odyssey: Cycles in the Ocean
"Overview: In this activity, students connect art and science by creating a drawing and conceptual model of the thermohaline circulation. Students get to create drawings to understand how water moves in the ocean and...
NOAA Data in the Classroom: Understanding Ocean and Coastal Acidification
"Overview: Through the five lessons in this module, students will explore relationships between carbon dioxide, ocean pH, and aragonite saturation state. By examining these parameters using interactive graphs and models,...
NOAA Data in the Clasroom: Monitoring Estuarine Water Quality
"Overview: This self-paced online resource from NOAA explores the relationship between water quality and estuarine ecology through a series of 5 levels that range from one to two 45 minute class periods. This resource...
The Lifestyle Project
"Overview: This multi-week project begins with a measurement of baseline consumptive behavior followed by three weeks of working to reduce the use of water, energy, high-impact foods, and other materials. The assignment...
NCA4 Wildfire Figure
"Overview: This is a graphic on how climate change has impacted wildfire rates. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Biology, Ecology, Physical Science, Atmospheric Science Level: Middle School, High S...
Life Cycle Assessment of Biofuels 101
"Overview: In this activity, students conduct a life cycle assessment of energy used and produced in ethanol production, and a life cycle assessment of carbon dioxide used and produced in ethanol production. Subject: En...
NASA eClips: Our World: ICESat-2 - What Is Ice?
"Overview: This 3-minute eClip video from Nasa's Our World series introduces students to the unique properties of water. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: Upper Primary Material Type: Diagram/Illus...
NASA eClips: Our World: ICESat-2 Measures Ice Sheets
"Overview: A short video on the satellite ICESat-2 and what it measures (ice). Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: Lower Primary, Upper Primary Material Type: Diagram/Illustrat...
NASA eClips: Our World: Cool Clouds
"Overview: This eClip video is part of NASA's Our World series and introduces students to the basics of cloud formation. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science, Atmospheric Science Level: Lower Primary, Upper...
Lessons in Sea-Level Rise
"Overview: This activity allows students to examine graphs of sea level rise data as well as global temperature data. They calculate amounts and rates of sea level rise for various time periods and answer questions discu...
NASA Global Warming Demonstration
"Overview: This demonstration shows how water absorbs more heat than air. The corollary that is made is that the oceans are absorbing a lot of the heat related to climate change. The video tutorial shows an engaging demo...
My Angle on Cooling: Effects of Distance and Inclination
"Overview: In this hands-on lesson, students measure the effect of distance and inclination on the amount of heat felt by an object and apply this experiment to building an understanding of seasonality. In Part 1, the st...
Lessons for Understanding Our Water Footprint
"Overview: This activity contains lesson plans aimed at teaching about water resources, water use and conservation, and the importance of personal and household choices regarding water use. This resource includes both...
Motions of the Sun Lab
"Overview: This Motions of the Sun Lab is an interactive applet from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Astronomy Applet project. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Science, Physics Level: H...