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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From Mud to Molecules: What Deep Sea Sediments Can Tell Us About Past Climates
"Overview: This video documents how scientists, using marine algae, can study climate change in the past to help understand potential effects of climate change in the future. Subject: Environmental Studies, History, Law...
From Isotopes to Temperature: Working With A Temperature Equation
"Overview: In this activity, students will use oxygen isotope values of two species of modern coral to reconstruct ambient water temperature over a four-year period. They use Microsoft Excel, or similar application, to c...
Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico
"Overview: This video addresses the Gulf Dead Zone, a hypoxic zone, which is an area of low oxygen that can harm marine life near the bottom of the sea. The video describes how human activity in and around the Mississipp...
The Findings From Mauna Loa
"Overview: This activity involves plotting and comparing monthly data on atmospheric C02 concentrations over two years, as recorded in Mauna Loa and the South Pole, and postulating reasons for differences in their season...
Fermentation in a Bag
"Overview: This is a hands-on inquiry activity using zip-lock plastic bags that allows students to observe the process of fermentation and the challenge of producing ethanol from cellulosic sources. Students are asked to...
Field Research on Glacial Change
"Overview: This video describes how field research -- in this case, making water measurements in rugged mountain locations -- helps us to understand the complex relationships among changing climate, populations, and wate...
Data Set Not Found | National Snow and Ice Data Center
"Overview: This visualization tool shows sea ice data from 1978 to the present. Selected data can be animated to show changes in sea ice extent over time. Data is added by the National Snow and Ice Data Center as it beco...
Fermentation Challenge: Making Ethanol from Cellulose
"Overview: This hands-on activity introduces students to the process of fermenting different carbohydrate sources into ethanol. Teachers demonstrate yeasts' inability to metabolize certain food sources. Subject: Environ...
Feeling the Sting of Climate Change
"Overview: This video on phenology of plants and bees discusses the MODIS satellite finding that springtime greening is happening one half-day earlier each year and correlates this to bee pollination field studies. Subj...
Feeling the Heat
"Overview: In this activity, students learn about the urban heat island effect by investigating which areas of their schoolyard have higher temperatures - trees, grass, asphalt, and other materials. Based on their result...
Data Puzzle: Wind Farms of the Future
"Overview: This activity asks students to identify the best locations for wind farms based on the connection between surface roughness and wind speed. Students are directed to use a data tool called Global Wind Atlas to...
Feeling the Effects of Climate Change
"Overview: In this video, several scientists identify and describe examples of increasing health problems that they believe are related to climate change. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical...
Farming and Climate Change
"Overview: This resource from MIT includes a 14-minute podcast on the relationship between agriculture and climate change from a NASA scientist, and additional activities that support an understanding of using maps and c...
Energy 101: Feedstock for Biofuels and More
"Overview: This short video shows how different biomass feedstocks are processed and refined into sustainable biofuels via biochemical and thermochemical processes. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level...
Faces of Climate Change: Life on the Ice
"Overview: This video is the second of three short videos showcasing the dramatic changes in Alaska's marine ecosystems. The video highlights the marine mammals and birds and how they depend on Arctic sea ice, as well as...
Faces of Climate Change: Introduction
"Overview: This is the first of three short videos showcasing the dramatic changes in Alaska's marine ecosystems. This introduction to the impacts of climate change in Alaska includes interviews with Alaska Natives, comm...
Energy 101: Electric Vehicles
"Overview: This video highlights the benefits of electric vehicles, including improved fuel efficiency, reduced emissions, and lower maintenance costs. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Sci...
FRee Energy Data (FRED)
"Overview: This interactive visualization created by FRED (Free Energy Data), displays energy supply (by source) and demand (by use) for each state in the US from 1960 to 2010; forecasts through 2035 are available as wel...
Data Puzzle: To Reflect or Not to Reflect
"Overview: Students analyze and interpret Arctic albedo data to evaluate the effect of declining sea ice on the Arctic system. They connect this information to climate and finish by constructing a conceptual model that e...
Eyes on the Hydrosphere: Tracking Water Resources
"Overview: This module introduces students to the basics of the hydrologic cycle in a way that engages them with both societal challenges related to water and methods for measuring the water system. In the final exercise...