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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Evidence That Carbon Dioxide Traps Heat | Decoding the Weather Machine
"Overview: In this video, learn how John Tyndall designed an experiment to reveal evidence that carbon dioxide traps heat. Teachers could use this resource to consider the role carbon dioxide plays in regulating Earth's...
Evidence Links Human Activity to Global Warming | Decoding the Weather Machine
"Overview: This video discusses the fossil fuel fingerprint in isotopic analysis of atmospheric carbon dioxide. It does an excellent job of presenting this topic, which is too often overlooked in other discussions of the...
Evaporation Investigation
"Overview: Students observe the process of evaporation, make comparisons about the process, then construct a diagram and use it to describe the process of evaporation. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studi...
Evaluating the Effects of Local Energy Resource Development
"Overview: This is a semester-long jigsaw project in which students work in teams to explore the effects of energy resource development on local water resources, economics, and society. Students are presented with a cont...
Data Puzzle: Megadrought in the Colorado River Basin
"Overview: Through this resource from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), students will define, investigate, and answer questions about what caused the megadrought in the Colorado Ri...
Ethanol Biofuel
"Overview: This video segment examines ethanol, a cleaner-burning fuel alternative to gasoline, and the efforts to produce it more efficiently. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Science Lev...
Estimated Carbon Dioxide Emissions in 2008 by State
"Overview: These flow charts show carbon dioxide emissions for each state, the District of Columbia and the entire United States. Emissions are distinguished by energy source and end use. Subject: Physical Science Level...
Erosion in Alaska | Youth And Climate
"Overview: Nelson from Kipnuk, Alaska invites us to see how climate change is melting permafrost and causing coastal erosion in his hometown. Teaching tip: Coastal erosion is a serious consequence of climate change, b...
Elementary GLOBE Water Module
"Overview: Students learn about the water cycle and hydrology through a series of three lessons, two coloring book pages, and an e-Book. The themes covered in this resource tie into Climate Science and fundamental climat...
Envisioning a Resilient Future
"Overview: In this lesson, students create a vision for the future of their community and identify what resources are most important to them as a starting point for resilience planning. The driving question for the ac...
Daisyworld - This World is Black and White
"Overview: This short, engaging video created by NASA presents a complex topic via a simple analogy. The idea of positive and negative feedback is demonstrated by Daisyworld - a world with black and white flowers growing...
Elementary GLOBE Soils Module
"Overview: Learning activities help students explore and describe soil, consider what is found in soil such as rocks, roots, critters, and organic material, and explain the importance of soil to plants and animals. Subj...
Enliven Data with Art: Dramatize the Critical Science of Climate Change
"Overview: This lesson connects scientific data to different types of visualizations. Students learn how art can help enhance science communication and enliven data. It provides opportunities for students to understand c...
Engineering Challenge: Designing a Portable Drilling Rig
"Overview: This resource guides students through the iterative engineering design cycle to build a functional model of a drill rig that can be broken down, reassembled in Antarctica (or other cold icy regions), and then...
Elementary GLOBE Seasons Module
"Overview: In these activities and story book, students wonder why hummingbirds have stopped visiting their school. They learn about the needs of the hummingbirds, the seasonal changes where they live, and the environmen...
Engineering Biofuels
"Overview: In this video, students explore the work of Jay Keasling, a biologist who is experimenting with ways to produce a cleaner-burning fuel from biological matter using genetically modified microorganisms. Subject...
Daily Weather Record Breakers
"Overview: This tool provides a summary of daily records broken in several weather parameters (temperature, precipitation, snow fall, snow depth), over various time intervals, in the US and globally. Subject: Environmen...
Elementary GLOBE Earth Systems Module
"Overview: Several activities that introduce students to the concepts of earth as a series of systems that are all connected. All of the activities reinforce the idea that water, air, soil, and living things all interact...
Energy use per person
"Overview: This simple data visualization allows students to compare primary energy use and several other variables (carbon dioxide emissions, oil consumption) among different countries, including by OECD and non-OECD st...
Energy from the Sun
"Overview: In this lesson, students will discuss how we use energy every day and where it comes from. Students will then draw or sort energy flow diagrams and write a paragraph to explain their diagrams. Excellent bac...