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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Energy flows
"Overview: This activity introduces students to different forms of energy, energy transformations, energy storage, and the flow of energy through systems. Students learn that most energy can be traced back to nuclear fus...
Energy culture as a determinant of a country's position in the climate talks
"Overview: In this activity, students compare countries and nation states with high- and low-energy consumption rates within a specific region of the world. Students are encouraged to draw linkages between a country's en...
DIY Solar Energy: Photosynthetic Solar Cells
"Overview: This activity from the Paleontological Research Institution and Cornell University supports an understanding of chemistry and physics concepts by instructing students to create their own solar cell with the he...
Energy and the Poor - Black Carbon in Developing Nations
"Overview: An activity focusing on black carbon. This activity explores the impacts of the use of black carbon generating wood, dung, and charcoal for fuel in developing countries. Subject: Environmental Science, Physic...
Energy and Climate Change Educator Guide
"Overview: The focus of this introductory activity is on energy/electricity sources and generation between 2001 and 2018. Students listen to a podcast about electricity generation and then are tasked to interpret graphs...
Energy Walkabout
"Overview: In this activity learners work in pairs or small groups to evaluate energy use in their school and make recommendations for improved efficiency. Students create and use an energy audit tool to collect data and...
Elementary GLOBE Clouds Module
"Overview: A suite of hands-on activities to give students the opportunity to describe the shape and appearance of clouds and learn the types of weather that are associated with clouds. The module includes outdoor observ...
Energy Stories Reader's Theater
"Overview: In this activity students learn about the story of coal, firewood, wind, and how energy gets transferred to these different sources. It is set in a Reader's Theater type activity where students are engaged in...
Energy Sources and Uses Flow Charts
"Overview: This visualization includes a series of flow charts showing the relative size of primary energy resources and end uses in the United States for the years 2008-2012. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Sc...
Elementary GLOBE Climate Module
"Overview: Through learning activities, students learn how weather over a long period of time describes climate, explore how sea level rise can affect coastal communities and environments, and describe how humans are con...
Critical infrastructure is vulnerable to climate changeâand it's not just coastal cities at risk
"Overview: Taking into account rising sea levels and severe weather events, a non-profit research group assessed the flood danger to infrastructure in the US over the next thirty years. Teaching tip: The video present...
Energy Production by Country
"Overview: This data visualization describes global and regional energy production. A pie chart shows percentage of each energy source used in various different countries. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Scienc...
Energy Lab
"Overview: This online activity challenges students to design a renewable energy system for one of five different cities, each with different energy resource potential and budgets. Students can test their designs using r...
Elementary GLOBE Air Quality Module
"Overview: This resource is designed as a module with a storybook or web story, and four activities. In the storybook, the GLOBE Kids investigate colors in the sky and learn how air pollution affects sky color and our he...
Energy Lab
"Overview: This activity challenges students to try and meet the world's projected energy demand over the next century, decade by decade, by manipulating a menu of available energy sources in the online Energy lab simula...
Energy Justice Lesson Plan
"Overview: This resource utilizes an easy-to-use tool to discuss energy justice and household energy burdens. The lesson plan covers a variety of different topics that discus the complexity of energy use and socioeconomi...
Creating Biofuel and Mitigating Waste
"Overview: In this activity students make biodiesel from waste vegetable oil and develop a presentation based on their lab experience. Parts of the activity include creation of bio-diesel from clean vegetable oil, creati...
Electricity data browser
"Overview: The Electricity data browser allows individuals and organizations to create, download, or view graphs, reports, and tables based on energy data sets from the US Energy Information Administration. These data se...
Energy Forms and Changes
"Overview: This pair of interactive visualizations allows students to explore basic and more complex concepts around heat conduction, heat capacity and energy transfer. The basic simulation demonstrates how heating and c...
El Niño 101
"Overview: This video explains what El Niño is and provides the definition of El Niño. It goes into detail about the devastating terrestrial and aquatic effects El Niño can have on living organisms and the climate (disea...