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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How Much Energy is on My Plate?
"Overview: This activity leads students through a sequence of learning steps that highlight the embedded energy that is necessary to produce various types of food. Students start by thinking through the components of a b...
How Global Warming Works
"Overview: This video succinctly explains the mechanism of the natural greenhouse effect and the cause of global climate change (anthropogenic global warming). It is short, basic, and to the point. It's also available in...
How Does Melting Ice Affect Sea Level?
"Overview: Students investigate how sea levels might rise when ice sheets and ice caps melt. By constructing a pair of models, students can observe the effects of ice melt in two different situations. Subject: Physical...
How Do Long and Short EM Waves Interact with the Earth's Atmosphere?
"Overview: This is a kinesthetic activity that demonstrates how shortwave radiation emitted by the sun and longwave thermal radiation emitted by the earth interact differently in the atmosphere. It allows students to exp...
How Do Greenhouse Gases Actually Work?
"Overview: This animated video explains how the molecular structure of atmospheric gases can absorb and re-radiate infrared energy. The video uses simple models and analogies to aid in student understanding. Subject: En...
Global Snow Cover Changes
"Overview: Students use an online mapping tool to investigate changes in global snow cover, develop a problem statement about global snow cover, and then use the tools to investigate a problem or question of their own de...
How Clouds Form - Understanding the Basic Principles of Precipitation
"Overview: The purpose of this investigation is to facilitate understanding of the basics of cloud formation involving the changing state of water. This activity should enhance the understanding of the change of state co...
How Climate Affects Community Health
"Overview: This animated video discusses how climate change is altering the environment and increasing disease risk from air pollution, spread of disease vectors, increased high temperatures, violent storms and flooding....
Household Carbon Calculator
"Overview: This interactive simulation allows users to calculate their household carbon emissions based on travel, home usage, food, and shopping habits. Students will be alerted to how their usage and habits affect thei...
Global Patterns
"Overview: This activity supports educators in the use of the activities that accompany the GLOBE Program's Earth System Poster 'Exploring Connections in Year 2007'. Students identify global patterns and connections in e...
Hourglass Lake Fire Challenge
"Overview: In this interactive game, students solve the challenges that their community faces during the course of a wildfire event by using available individual and community resources. Students work in three zone respo...
Hoover Dam and Hydroelectric Power
"Overview: This video segment is adapted from Building Big, a PBS series hosted by David Macaulay. It explores Hoover Dam's hydroelectric capabilities by explaining how it is able to harness the potential energy stored i...
Home Energy Quiz
"Overview: In this activity, students take a Home Energy Quiz to identify improvements that could make their homes more energy-efficient. Subject: Physical Science Level: Middle School, High School, Career / Technical M...
A Global Issue: The Impacts of Climate Change
"Overview: This is lesson five of a 9-lesson module. Activity explores the effects of climate change on different parts of the Earth system and on human well-being: polar regions, coral reefs, disease vectors, extreme we...
Heating it Up: The Chemistry of the Greenhouse Effect
"Overview: This lesson explores the chemistry of some of the greenhouse gases that affect Earth's climate. Third in a series of 9 lessons from an online module entitled 'Visualizing and Understanding the Science of Clima...
Heat-Trapping Gases
"Overview: This video discusses carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere that have increased due to the burning of fossil fuels in electricity generation, transportation, and industrial processes. Video includes h...
Healthy Habitats: Climate Change Action for K-2
"Overview: In this resource, students will explore their local schoolyard habitat, reflect on how climate change may be impacting their habitat, and work together to plan and implement an action that helps reduce local c...
From Dog Walking to Weather and Climate
"Overview: This short animation helps demonstrate the difference between climate and weather by using the analogy of a leashed dog walking with a man. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: Middle Schoo...
Health Concerns Over Fracking Fluids
"Overview: This video segment, adapted from Need to Know, discusses how the process of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is used to extract natural gas and how the process may be polluting water resources with hazardous ch...
Have a Talk: Climate Conversations
"Overview: In this learning activity students learn how to and practice having conversations about climate change with adults or peers. The activity is based on psychological and social science research. Subject: Enviro...