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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Kinesthetic Astronomy: The Meaning of a Year
"Overview: In this interactive lesson, students will use kinesthetic techniques to model Earth's orbit around the Sun for a year. In this activity students will understand the astronomical meaning of an earth year, and l...
Meltwater Pulse 2B
"Overview: This video, from Yale Climate Connections, explores the 2014 melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet that captured headlines. Interviews, animations, and news broadcasts explore what the melting meant for both...
HEART Force - A Changing Climate: Understanding Drought in Colorado
"Overview: In this lesson, students build an understanding of drought in Colorado through exploring case studies, authentic data, and online resources. After completing this lesson, students will be able to understand th...
Melting Permafrost
"Overview: This video is accompanied by supporting materials including background essay and discussion questions. The focus is on changes happening to permafrost in the Arctic landscape, with Alaska Native peoples and We...
Meet the Greenhouse Gases
"Overview: Interactive cards with gasses portrayed as super heroes are provided for Water Vapor, Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Ozone, Nitrous Oxide, and Chlorofluorocarbons. On one side of the card is an explanation of how th...
Kinesthetic Astronomy: Longer Days, Shorter Nights
"Overview: This kinesthetic activity demonstrates to students that the earth's tilt is what is responsible for shifting light patterns and the change in seasons. In this activity students will learn that the Earth is til...
Mauna Loa CO2 Collection Data
"Overview: In this activity, students use datasets from both the Northern and Southern hemispheres to observe seasonal and hemispheric differences in changes to atmospheric C02 release and uptake over time. Subject: Phy...
Gulf Stream Heat Budget and Europe's Mild Climate: A Problem-based Learning Activity
"Overview: In this role-playing activity, learners are presented with a scenario in which they determine whether the Gulf Stream is responsible for keeping northern Europe warm. They must also address the potential futur...
Khaki Goes Green - Earth: The Operators' Manual
"Overview: This video segment highlights how the U.S. military is the single largest user of energy in the nation, but it is also trying to reduce its carbon bootprint. Scenes taped at Fort Irwin and Camp Pendleton show...
Greenhouse Gases - IR Spectra
"Overview: This animation allows students to explore the infrared spectra of greenhouse gases and depict the absorption spectra. Vibrational modes and Earth's energy spectrum can also be overlaid. Subject: Environmental...
Keeping Watch on Coral Reefs
"Overview: This activity identifies and explains the benefits of and threats to coral reef systems. Students read tutorials, describe the role of satellites, analyze oceanographic data and identify actions that can be un...
Is Greenland Melting?
"Overview: Data-centric activity where students explore the connections between an observable change in the cryosphere and its potential impact in the hydrosphere and atmosphere. Students analyze the melt extents on the...
Greenhouse Gases: A Closer Look
"Overview: This lesson covers different aspects of the major greenhouse gases - water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxides and CFCs - including some of the ways in which human activities are affecting the atmos...
Karoo Biome
"Overview: This is a National Geographic short video that briefly describes how succulent plants in the South African Karoo biome are dying off due to changes in climate. Subject: Physical Science Level: Middle School,...
Is Earth Warming?
"Overview: This video is part two of a seven-part National Academies series, Climate Change: Lines of Evidence. The video outlines, with the use of recent research and historical data, how we know that the Earth is warmi...
Is Earth Running Out of Water?
"Overview: This video is an episode of Above the Noise from PBS Digital Studios that engages students in thinking about drought and water shortages worldwide. Supporting materials include background reading on water shor...
Is Earth Running Out of Water?
"Overview: This video is an episode of Above the Noise from PBS Digital Studios that engages students in thinking about drought and water shortages worldwide. Supporting materials include background reading on water shor...
Just how long have we known about climate change anyways?
"Overview: An engaging and informational video describing the history of our knowledge about climate change. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: Middle School, High School Mate...
Is Climate Change Just a Lot of Hot Air?
"Overview: This short video illustrates how warming ocean temperature is a major factor in climate change, particularly the increase in severity of extreme weather (notably storms and drought). Subject: Environmental Sc...
Is Climate Change Happening?
"Overview: For this lesson, the guiding Concept Question is: What is climate change and how does climate relate to greenhouse gas concentrations over time? This activity is the second lesson in a nine-lesson module 'Visu...