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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Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic Time Machine
"Overview: In this TED talk, Wall Street Journal science columnist Lee Hotz describes the research of the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide project, in which scientists examine ice core records of climate change in the...
Monitoring Methane: Human Health and Abatement
"Overview: This resource from Our Climate Our Future explores the variety of health and social issues associated with gas extraction and unregulated methane emissions. This activity has students learning about different...
HEART Force - Adapting to Extremes: Exploring the Science of Floods in Colorado
"Overview: In this lesson, students analyze and synthesize data, and design local flood preparation strategies to answer the question, "What can we learn from past flood events to prepare for fut...
Modeling the oceanic thermohaline circulation with STELLA
"Overview: In this activity for undergraduate students, learners build a highly simplified computer model of thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean and conduct a set of simulation experiments to understand...
The Last Time the Globe Warmed
"Overview: This video primarily focuses on comparing the current global warming trend compared to a previous time in Earth's history when the global average temperature also increased. Subject: Environmental Science, En...
Modeling the Seasons
"Overview: This hands-on activity demonstrates and explains the reasons for the seasons caused by the tilt of Earth on its axis as it orbits around the sun. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physica...
Modeling the Process of Mining Silicon Through a Single Displacement / Redox Reaction
"Overview: The heart of this activity is a laboratory investigation that models the production of silicon. Students learn about silicon and its sources, uses, properties, importance in the fields of photovoltaics (solar...
HEART Force - Adapting to Extremes: Exploring the Science of Drought in Colorado
"Overview: In this lesson, students analyze and synthesize data about how drought is measured, how scientists expect drought to change in the future, and how we can mitigate the impacts of drought in our communities....
Last Glacial Maximum
"Overview: In this activity for undergraduates, students explore the CLIMAP (Climate: Long-Range Investigation, Mapping and Prediction) model results for differences between the modern and the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)...
Modeling the Complexities of the Carbon Cycle Utilizing Excel
"Overview: This set of activities is about carbon sources, sinks, and fluxes among them - both with and without anthropogenic components. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: Hi...
Land Ice/Sea Ice/Grounded Ice: How does melting ice affect sea level?
"Overview: Students create a model of sea level rise based on the melting of land ice, sea ice, or grounded ice. Student predictions are recorded and models are run. Making explanations based on data, cause and effect, a...
Modeling Our Climate
"Overview: This video is simple in its appearance, but it contains a wealth of relevant information about global climate models. Subject: Environmental Science, Physical Science, Geoscience Level: High School, Community...
HEART Force - A Changing Climate: Understanding Wildfire in Colorado
"Overview: In this lesson, students investigate wildfires in Colorado by analyzing wildfire data and information to create a local news story that educates community members about wildfire risk. In Part 1, students watch...
Modeling Earth's Energy Balance
"Overview: In this activity, learners use the STELLA box modeling software to determine Earth's temperature based on incoming solar radiation and outgoing terrestrial radiation. Starting with a simple black body model, t...
Mitigation or Adaptation?
"Overview: Explaining mitigation vs adaptation can be tricky but this activity has clearly defined each of the terms for students. Students will gain a better understanding of mitigation and adaptation through real-life...
Lake County Cascading Hazards Unit
"Overview: The unit gives a brief introduction to several natural hazards that impact communities in California; drought, flooding, earthquakes, landslides, and wildfire, and connects the hazards by introducing the conce...
The Methane Circus
"Overview: In this activity from NOAA's Okeanos Explorer Education Materials Collection, learners investigate how methane hydrates might have been involved with the Cambrian explosion. Subject: Environmental Science, En...
HEART Force - A Changing Climate: Understanding Floods in Colorado
"Overview: In this hazard lesson, students build an understanding of flooding in Colorado by exploring case studies, authentic data, and online resources. After completing this lesson, students will be able to understand...
Met 101: Basic Weather Processes
"Overview: This activity is an overview of basic weather processes, starting incoming with solar radiation and how that establishes basic atmospheric processes. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science, Atmosphe...
Merging Social Justice with Environmentalism
"Overview: Students will learn about the environmental justice movement from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries through reading about key movements in time. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental...