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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Compact Fluorescent and LED Cost-Benefit Analysis
"Overview: In this activity, students collect data and analyze the cost of using energy in their homes and investigate one method of reducing energy use. This activity provides educators and students with the means to co...
Effectively engaging with climate skeptics
"Overview: In this activity, students select an argument of a climate skeptic, research it, and write up a mock dialog that portrays a back-and-forth discussion between the skeptic and a non-skeptic, while presenting a s...
Energy 101: Geothermal Energy
"Overview: This resource presents a brief overview of geothermal energy and how it is transformed into a usable product. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: Middle School, High School Material Type:...
Educator Guide: Lab 1- Launching an Expedition
"Overview: Students are charged with thinking about what it takes to 'do science'. They are introduced to the science of dendrochronology and learn how tree-ring science is executed. Subject: Environmental Science, Envi...
Communicating Climate 2: Literary Representations of Climate Change
"Overview: This activity explores how the topic of climate change is represented in various forms of writing, from scholarly articles to opinion pieces and works of fiction. While the content does not emphasize climate s...
The Ecology of Climate Change
"Overview: This video focuses on the conifer forest in Alaska to explore the carbon cycle and how the forest responds to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide. Topics addressed in the video include wildfires, reflectivity, a...
Ecological Footprint
"Overview: Students explore their own Ecological Footprint in the context of how many Earths it would take if everyone used the same amount of resources they did. They compare this to the Ecological Footprint of individu...
Communicating Climate 1: The Science of Climate Change
"Overview: In this activity, students use climate data to develop a simple graph of how climate has changed over time and then present the result in a blog, emphasizing effective science communication. Subject: Environm...
Eco-Health Relationship Browser
"Overview: This highly informative site explores five different ecosystems and the public health issues that have arisen in each. Students can explore the different ways that ecosystem services that address air quality,...
Colorado's Forests and the Pine Beetle Epidemic
"Overview: This video features CU Boulder Professor Jeff Mitton and his research team, who study the effects of mountain pine beetle infestations on the forest ecology in the Rocky Mountains. They explain the pine beetle...
Earth's Water Cycle
"Overview: This NASA video provides a nice overview of Earth's water cycle from the perspective of looking at Earth from space. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science, Hydrology Level: Middle School, High Scho...
Earth Now Monthly Climate Digest
"Overview: This monthly bulletin and animation provides regular and reliable visualizations of world weather and climate events of the previous month using NOAA data. Archives are available from October 2011 to present....
EarthNow Climate Digest
"Overview: This visualization provides an informative summary of the quarterly seasonal global weather and climate using the 3-D Science on a Sphere format. These video summaries use animations of recent NOAA data and an...
The Earth's Heat Budget
"Overview: Hands-on laboratory activity that allows students to investigate the effects of distance and angle on the input of solar radiation at Earth's surface, the role played by albedo, the heat capacity of land and w...
Earth Day 1970 - 2020: 50th Anniversary - Time Will Tell
"Overview: Using real data, this animated video provides numerous facts comparing human behaviors and Earth characteristics related to climate change through time - from the first Earth Day in 1970, to the 50th anniversa...
Earth Day 1970-2017: What's Changed
"Overview: This video illustrates the environmental challenges and achievements since Earth Day was established in 1970. It can be used as an extension or engagement resource. However, it would need to be carefully frame...
Colorado and a Warming Planet
"Overview: This video highlights a variety of climate change research initiatives from scientists at the University of Colorado, Boulder. It describes the changing dynamics of Antarctic ice sheets and the impacts of redu...
Earth Artistically Balanced
"Overview: Students first learn about the complexities of Earth's climate system and the different factors contributing to Earth's energy balance. Then, students categorize the factors that influence climate as warming o...
Earth's Changing Climates
"Overview: In this activity, students are guided through graphs of surface air temperature anomaly data and Vostok ice core data to illustrate how scientists use these data to develop the basis for modeling how climate i...
Earth: An animated map of global wind and weather
"Overview: This animation depicts real-time wind speed and direction at selected heights above Earth's surface, ocean surface currents, and ocean surface temperatures and anomalies. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physi...