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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Ice Globes | Winter
"Overview: This short video focuses on how the melting of snow creates a more sticky substance that is easier to make snowballs with. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: Lower Primary Material Type:...
Ice Core Secrets Could Reveal Answers to Global Warming
"Overview: This video features research conducted at University of Colorado's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, which studies isotopes of hydrogen trapped in ice cores to understand climate changes in the past. S...
IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report Figure SPM1
"Overview: This visual shows how climate change has already caused widespread impacts and related losses and damages on human systems and altered terrestrial, freshwater, and ocean ecosystems worldwide. This is a very...
Google Earth Tours of Glacier Change
"Overview: A detailed Google Earth tour of glacier change over the last 50 years introduces this topic in an engaging way. Students are then asked to select from a group of glaciers and create their own Google Earth tour...
I Live in the Midwest and Northern Great Plains - Does Climate Change Matter to Me?
"Overview: This video features Katharine Hayhoe presenting a lively discussion of impacts that the Midwestern US is experiencing due to climate change. It steps through evidence for how climate change is affecting agricu...
Hurricanes and Climate
"Overview: In this activity, students use maps and data to learn about where and how hurricanes form and possible correlations with climate change affecting their strength. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental...
Global temperature projections with increasing and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions.
"Overview: This animation shows predicted changes in temperature across the globe, relative to pre-industrial levels, under two different emissions scenarios in the COP 17 climate model. The first is with emissions conti...
Hurricane Resilience Part 1: Hurricanes Affect Us
"Overview: In this activity, students learn how people prepared for and then dealt during a hurricane by analyzing news headlines about Hurricane Florence (2018). Then they analyze data about the amount of damage that di...
Hurricane Katrina
"Overview: In this problem-based learning module, students research and report on Hurricane Katrina, using an earth systems science analysis approach. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Scie...
Global patterns in Green-up and Green-down
"Overview: In this classroom activity, students analyze visualizations and graphs that show the annual cycle of plant growth and decline. They explore patterns of annual change for the globe and several regions in each h...
How the World Can Tackle Climate Change
"Overview: This short video reviews how nations and individuals can work together to reduce the emission of CO2. It discusses strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (energy conservation, renewable energies, change...
How is Climate Change Affecting Ice Cover on Madison Lakes?
"Overview: This resource tells the story of how climate change is affecting ice cover on lakes in Wisconsin. Students will understand at the end of the lesson that shorter ice cover seasons are having a profound impact o...
How does light travel?
"Overview: This activity includes two experiments that explore shadows and light and how mirrors can demonstrate how light travels. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science, Physics Level: Lower Primary, Upper P...
How does light travel?
"Overview: This activity includes two experiments that explore shadows and light and how mirrors can demonstrate how light travels. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science, Physics Level: Lower Primary, Upper P...
How does energy affect wildlife?
"Overview: This learning activity that asks students to consider the impacts of different types of electricity generation on wildlife. Students are asked some questions about their beliefs and knowledge on the topic, and...
Global Warming Webquest
"Overview: In this Webquest activity, students assume roles of scientist, business leader, or policy maker. The students then collaborate as part of a climate action team and learn how society and the environment might b...
How a Geothermal Power Plant Works
"Overview: This simplified animation of a geothermal power plant from the U.S. Department of Energy illustrates commonalities with traditional power-generating stations. While there are many types of geothermal power pla...
How Much Water Do You Eat?
"Overview: This lesson will help students understand water use in food production and ways to use less water. The activity covers how much water it takes to produce commonly eaten foods in the USA. There is a particul...
How Much Warming?
"Overview: This short video, is the fifth in the National Academies Climate Change, Lines of Evidence series. It focuses on greenhouse gases, climate forcing (natural and human-caused), and global energy balance. Subjec...
Global Warming: Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect
"Overview: This video segment demonstrates carbon dioxide's role in the greenhouse effect and explains how increasing concentrations of C02 in the atmosphere may be contributing to global warming. Video includes an unusu...