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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Global Ice Viewer
"Overview: With this simulation from the NASA Climate website, learners explore different examples of how ice is melting due to climate change in four places where large quantities of ice are found. The photo comparisons...
Fracking: How dirty a word?
"Overview: This video is one of a series from the Switch Energy project. It presents pros and cons of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. In this video, new fracking technologies are presented as more economical and envir...
Harnessing Nuclear Energy
"Overview: This activity teaches students how energy is obtained from nuclear fission and how it is used to produce electricity in a nuclear power plant. It also teaches students how some of the electricity they use is p...
Hands-on Greenhouse Gas Molecule Models
"Overview: This short Youtube video shows a visual model of greenhouse gases using tennis balls, explaining why carbon dioxide absorbs more heat energy than oxygen or nitrogen. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmen...
Hamster-like Pika in Peril
"Overview: This video describes the effect of a warming climate on the tundra biome and specifically the impacts of changing climate on the Rocky Mountain Pika, a small mammal that struggles with summer heat. Subject: P...
The Four Seasons
"Overview: In this activity, students investigate what causes the seasons by doing a series of kinesthetic modeling activities and readings. Subject: Physical Science Level: Middle School, Career / Technical Material Ty...
HEART Force Wildfire Resilience Game
"Overview: This resource outlines an engaging role-play activity in which students apply knowledge of wildfire mitigation, preparedness, and resilience to planning for community wildfire preparedness. The game also inclu...
Global Forest Watch
"Overview: Global Forest Watch is an interactive, online forest monitoring and alert system that provides users globally with the information they need to better manage and conserve forest landscapes. Subject: Environme...
Four Generations of Green
"Overview: This video features the story of a multi-generational, family-run dairy business in Oregon. The family strives for sustainability in their operations by conserving energy and reducing greenhouse gases across m...
HEART Force Flood Response Game
"Overview: In this interactive game, students solve the challenges that their community faces during the course of an extreme flooding event by using available individual and community resources. Students work in three z...
HEART Force Drought Game
"Overview: In this interactive game, students solve challenges that their community faces during the course of an extreme drought event by using available individual and community resources. Students work in three resili...
Fostering Dialogue to Support Community Resilience
"Overview: This video outlines background and goals of resilience with a focus on communities and climate resilience. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: High School, Community...
Global Energy Flows
"Overview: In this activity, students analyze data detailing global energy sources and sinks (uses) and construct a diagram to show the relative scale and the connections between them. Discussions of scale; historical, s...
HEART Force - Adapting to Extremes: Exploring the Science of Wildfire in Colorado
"Overview: In this lesson, students analyze and synthesize data, and design local wildfire preparation strategies to answer the question "What can we learn from past wildfires to prepare for future wildfires?"...
A Fossil Thermometer
"Overview: In this activity, students calculate temperatures during a time in the geologic record when rapid warming occurred using a well known method called 'leaf-margin analysis.' Students determine the percentage of...
Fossil Fuels: Air Pollution and the Greenhouse Effect
"Overview: This lesson contains two activities to demonstrate two consequences of burning fossil fuels: air pollution and the greenhouse effect. In the first activity, students simulate the greenhouse effect with an encl...
Global Climate Dashboard: Climate Variability
"Overview: This interactive displays how climate variables are changing over time (temperature, CO2, Arctic sea ice, sun's energy, sea level, etc.) in graphical form. Students can easily examine over 50+ years of archive...
Global Energy Balance
"Overview: A simple click-through animation from Scripps Institute's Earthguide program breaks the complex topic of the global energy balance into separate concepts. Slides describe the different pathways for incoming an...
Global Climate Change and Sea Level Rise
"Overview: In this activity, students will practice the steps involved in a scientific investigation as they learn why ice formations on land (and not those on water) will cause a rise in sea level upon melting. This is...
Global Climate Change: The Effects of Global Warming
"Overview: The activity follows a progression that examines the CO2 content of various gases, explores the changes in the atmospheric levels of CO2 from 1958 to 2000 from the Mauna Loa Keeling curve, and the relationship...