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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The Formation of Fossil Fuels - Earth: The Operators' Manual
"Overview: This video segment from the Earth Operators Manual summarizes how fossil fuels are made, provides a comparison of how long it takes to store energy in coal, oil and natural gas, and discusses how fast we're us...
Global Change in Grasslands, USDA-ARS
"Overview: This video features the Prairie Heating and CO2 Enrichment Experiment near Cheyenne WY, where scientists expose mixed-grass prairie to higher temperatures and CO2 concentrations to study impacts on the prairie...
Global Energy Advisor
"Overview: This interactive activity allows students to explore the costs (emissions) and benefits (energy production) of various energy sources Students can compare the environmental impacts of different energy sourc...
Global And Great Lakes Climate Change
"Overview: In this activity students work with data to analyze local and global temperature anomaly data to look for warming trends. The activity focuses on the Great Lakes area. Subject: Environmental Science, Environm...
Forecasting Climate Variability and Change: A Matter of Survival
"Overview: In this activity, students explore past examples of climate variability in three locations: the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes, Central America, and coastal Greenland, and consider differences between climate var...
Glaciers Then and Now
"Overview: In this activity, students compare two photographs (with time spans of 30-100 years between photos) of specific Alaskan glaciers to observe how glaciers have changed over the time interval. Activity is a good...
Glacier (?) National Park
"Overview: This activity engages learners in examining data pertaining to the disappearing glaciers in Glacier National Park. After calculating percentage change of the number of glaciers from 1850 (150) to 1968 (50) and...
Food and Climate Change Curriculum
"Overview: Comprehensive curriculum/unit to teach how food systems affect climate change. Strong use of real data is embedded throughout. Full lessons, mini-lessons, and short videos are presented. Subject: Environmenta...
Glacier Melt
"Overview: This short video shows an example of melting alpine glaciers in the Austrian Alps (Goldberg Glacier). Disappearing alpine glaciers have social and environmental impacts, including the decline of fresh water su...
Giving Rise to the Jet Stream
"Overview: This 15-panel interactive from NOVA Online describes some of the factors (such as Earth's rotation and the sun's uneven heating of Earth's surface) contributing to the formation of the high-speed eastward flow...
Global Climate: Estimating How Much Sea Level Changes When Continental Ice Sheets Form
"Overview: In this activity, students estimate the drop in sea level during glacial maxima, when ice and snow in high latitudes and altitudes resulted in lower sea levels. Students estimate the surface area of the world'...
Get to Know: Eunice Newton Foote
"Overview: This video is about Eunice Newton Foote, who studied the effect different gases have on the heat from the sun's rays. This is an engaging and funny video that describes the basis of climate science, while also...
Food and Climate Change
"Overview: In this activity, students listen to a podcast and then investigate causes of and solutions to food waste, plant-based recipes to get excited about, and the diversity and variety of heirloom foods. Subject: E...
Getting Started with the Climate Explorer Story Map
"Overview: This is a simulation to explore how climate change will affect a specific region in the coming decades. Graphs and maps in The Climate Explorer help students understand past, present, and future climate projec...
Get Climate Data for Your Area and Make Temperature and Precipitation Charts
"Overview: This lab, created by Salish Kootenai College faculty, steps undergraduate students through ordering, accessing, and graphing local precipitation and temperature data. Subject: Environmental Science, Environme...
Geothermal Energy: Harnessing the Power of the Earth
"Overview: This video describes how geothermal heat resources in California have been tapped to supply 850 MW of electricity. Images and animations show how the area known as The Geysers has been developed to capture ste...
Food Sustainability and Security
"Overview: This activity has students analyze the lifecycle of food in their homes. Subject: Environmental Science, Agriculture, Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: Upper Primary, Middle School, High School M...
Georgia's peach crop devastated by warm winter conditions
"Overview: An unusually warm winter damaged Georgia's peach crop in 2023. As climate change continues, researchers are working to develop a peach that will be more resilient to warmer weather. Teaching tip: This video...
Generate: The Game of Energy Choices
"Overview: A board game which engages students as they grapple with the complexities of society's challenges. It encourages students to cultivate a deep and layered understanding of these challenges and current societal...
Food, Farming, and Justice: A role play on La Vña Campesina
"Overview: This resource has students role-play as farmers from around the world and consider how agricultural practices are part of climate solutions. This resource includes role-play activities for students to learn mo...