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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Gas or Electric? Thinking Algebraically About Car Costs, Emissions and Trade-offs
"Overview: This is an activity that uses basic algebra to assess the costs and savings of electric vehicles. It uses math to measure the trade-offs of buying electric versus gas-powered car models. Subject: Environmenta...
Gas Problem
"Overview: NASA produced white-board animation video explains key concepts about the role and source of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Science, Atmosp...
Garden Lesson Plan: Living Systems
"Overview: Many elements are interconnected and function together to create the natural and productive living system that is your garden. The purpose of this activity guide is to teach students the ecological functions f...
Following the Carbon Cycle
"Overview: This interactive follows carbon as it moves through various components of the carbon cycle. Subject: Environmental Studies, Biology, Physical Science, Chemistry, Geology Level: Middle School, High School Mate...
Garden Lesson Plan: Food and Carbon
"Overview: The lesson plan describes activities focusing on the big question, does eating locally grown food help reduce your carbon footprint? Many elements are interconnected and function together to create the natural...
Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.
"Overview: In this interactive simulation, students can explore global CO2 emissions displayed by different continents/countries and plotted based on the GDP. A map view is also accessible. Subject: Environmental Scienc...
GLOBE: Observing, Describing and Identifying Clouds
"Overview: Students observe, sketch, and describe clouds on their own before learning to identify cloud types by comparing photos of different clouds to their sketches. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science L...
GLOBE: From Weather to Climate - Looking at Air Temperature Data
"Overview: Students will work with short-term and long-term air temperature data in order to better understand the differences between weather and climate. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: Upper P...
Fluid Earth Viewer
"Overview: This interactive online visualization allows the user to view a variety of weather patterns including temperature, wind, and wave action over time. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physi...
GLOBE: Cloud Watch
"Overview: Students observe cloud type and coverage, as well as other weather conditions over a five-day period and correlate these observations. Students make and test predictions using these observations. Subject: Env...
Debunking Cranky Uncle on past climate change
"Overview: This humorous short video uses the 'single-cause fallacy' to debunk the myth that current changes in the Earth's climate are a result of natural phenomenon. The video is one of several in the 'Cranky Uncle' se...
GISS Surface Temperature Analysis
"Overview: This site provides a useful set of graphical representations of mean temperature change in different land/ocean surfaces over the past 120+ years. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physic...
GEF - Bhutan: Silent Tsunami
"Overview: This video shows the people of Bhutan working to prevent flooding from an outburst of a glacial lake in the country's Lunana region. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Science Lev...
Flubber Flow
"Overview: Flubber Flow is a 30-minute activity in which teams of four to five children experiment with Flubber and investigate how a solid can flow! They predict and model the properties of glaciers, view images of adva...
Fueling the future: Evaluating the sustainability of biofuels
"Overview: In this activity, students consider the impact and sustainability of use of different classes of biofuels on the economy, the environment, and society. Students also learn about bioelectricity and how converti...
Flow: Currents and Climate
"Overview: This video introduces viewers to oceanic thermohaline circulation - the system of global ocean currents that cycle warm and cold water across the planet. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies,...
Debating the Grid Example
"Overview: Students research electricity, its sources, how energy grids function, how to make grids most efficient, and how to bring different types of energy generation together to diversify grids. Students debate the c...
Fuel Cell Animation
"Overview: This fuel cell animation demonstrates how a fuel cell uses hydrogen to produce electricity, with only water and heat as byproducts. The animation consists of four parts - an introduction, fuel cell components,...
From Pond Scum to Power
"Overview: This animated slideshow introduces biodiesel as a fuel alternative. With concern about the use of petroleum-based fuels at an all-time high, biodiesel is experiencing a popularity surge. And algaeâotherwise kn...
Fired Up Over Math: Studying Wildfires from Space
"Overview: Students learn how scientists assess wildfires using remote sensing, then use some of the same techniques to solve grade-level appropriate math problems. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies,...