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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Eyes in the Sky: Using Remote Sensing to Explore the Poles
"Overview: This lesson covers a plethora of information on glacier dynamics, including basic glaciological concepts. Students learn through slide shows, hands-on activities, and discussion groups. Teaching tip: This a...
Extreme Weather on Earth
"Overview: In this activity, students use a set of photographs and a 3-minute video on weather to investigate extreme weather events. They are posed with a series of questions that ask them to identify conditions predict...
Energy 101: Daylighting
"Overview: This video introduces the concept of daylighting - the use of windows or skylights for natural lighting and temperature regulation - and how it is a building strategy that can save operating costs for homeowne...
Extreme Heat and Community Health
"Overview: This short video clip is part of a longer video series titled How Climate Effects Community Health. This clip focuses on human health risks from extreme heat events caused by increasing global temperatures. S...
Data Puzzle: The Tipping Point
"Overview: In this activity, students analyze and interpret data on the reproduction of moss campion plants to explore how increasing temperatures could impact these specialized tundra plants. This simulated scientifi...
Energy 101: Cool Roofs
"Overview: This introductory video covers the basic facts about how to keep residential and commercial roofs cool and why it is important to reducing the heat island effect and conserving energy. Subject: Environmental...
Extreme Heat
"Overview: This 3-minute video from PBS Wisconsin describes the socioeconomic vulnerability of elderly and impoverished populations during Wisconsin's heatwaves. A short summary provides more details about the dangers of...
Energy 101: Concentrating Solar Power
"Overview: This video describes how concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies reflect and collect solar energy to generate electricity. This video explains what CSP is, how it works, and focuses on parabolic troughs....
Data Puzzle: On a Budget
Data Puzzle: On a Budget "Overview: Students learn about Earth's energy balance and use data to better understand why the Arctic is warming faster than other locations on Earth. This comes from analyzing and interpreting...
Extreme Event Game
"Overview: The Extreme Events Game is an in-person role-playing game that allows participants the experience of building community resilience in the face of disaster. Players work together to make decisions and solve pro...
Exploring the Water Cycle
"Overview: In this lesson, students will learn about the water cycle and how energy from the sun and the force of gravity drive this cycle. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science, Hydrology Level: Lower Primar...
Energy 101: Algae-to-fuels
"Overview: This video is from the Energy 101 video series. It explains the process for converting micro-algae into fuel and makes the case that algae-based biofuels hold enormous potential for helping reduce our dependen...
En-ROADS Climate Change Solutions Simulator
"Overview: This climate simulation tool makes it intuitive to see how changes in energy, land use, agriculture, and other policies will affect Earth's projected temperature. Users move sliders on various policy actions a...
Exploring grid resilience as an approach to evaluating energy sources and addressing climate impacts
"Overview: Students evaluate the energy sources used to generate electricity in their state, then consider ways in which their energy infrastructure is vulnerable to extreme weather and rising sea level. Students then co...
Exploring Patterns: ENSO on the Global Stage
"Overview: In this activity, students analyze data maps of sea surface temperature anomalies for a 14-year interval and create an ENSO time line in a case study format. Based on their findings, students determine the rec...
Exploring Green Jobs
"Overview: In this lesson, students complete a Myers-Briggs Type Inventory of their personality type as an introductory step to understanding what green jobs might suit their personal styles. From the information on this...
Expecting the Unexpected: Abrupt Climate Change
"Overview: In this video scientists discuss possible rates of sea level rise, storms and resulting damage, rising temperatures and melting ice, and their collective effects on ecosystems. Subject: Environmental Science,...
Examining Sea Level Rise and Differential Shoreline Response
"Overview: In this activity, students make and manipulate physical shoreline models to discover the features of resilient shorelines and to critically evaluate the impacts of rising seas. Students will use NOAA's Sea Lev...
Evidence of Ice Free Seas
"Overview: In this activity, students make a model sea floor sediment core using two types of buttons to represent fossil diatoms. They then compare the numbers of diatom fossils in the sediment at different depths to de...
Data Puzzle: Megafire - Rare Occurrences or the New Normal?
"Overview: This resource uses datasets, videos, text, and discussions to support an understanding of patterns in megafires under climate change conditions. This resource provides an excellent scientific overview of the w...