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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Soil Microbes and Global Warming
"Overview: In this video, adapted from KUAC-TV and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, viewers learn how one-celled organisms in permafrost may be contributing to greenhouse gas levels and g...
Water: A Zero Sum Game
"Overview: This video takes viewers high into the Rocky Mountain snowpack, where researchers dig snow pits to explore the source of Colorado's water supply. Highlights the importance of snowpack on the supply of fresh wa...
The Social Cost of Carbon
"Overview: With the help of two climate experts, this video discusses how the social cost of carbon is calculated, how it should, perhaps, be calculated, and why the effort to quantify this value is necessary despite its...
Woody Biomass-Nebraska
"Overview: This video illustrates the advantages of woody biomass as a renewable, carbon-neutral energy source. Woody biomass is underutilized and often overlooked as a renewable fuel, and it can be harvested sustainably...
Witnessing Environmental Changes
"Overview: This video segment examines the issue of climate change from the perspective of Native Americans. The video segment was adapted from a student video produced at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, K...
Warmer Water Kills Salmon Eggs
"Overview: In this video segment, adapted from a student video produced at Northwest Indian College in Bellingham Washington, Native American elders discuss the impact of climate change on salmon populations and the impo...
Windy
"Overview: This is a full color, worldwide, animated weather map using GIS interface showing current and projected wind and other weather conditions for any location in the world. Data can be viewed at different spatial...
Warmer Oceans Affect Food Web
"Overview: In this video, students learn that the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska in 1989 was not the sole cause of the decline of species in the local ecosystem. Rather, an explanation is posited for why some animal po...
Wind Turbine Blade Design
"Overview: Students go through the design process and the scientific process to test the effect of blade design on power output. There is an optional extension to use the data to create an optimal set of wind turbine bla...
Wind Streamer
"Overview: Children create a wind streamer out of common materials and use it to determine the wind's direction. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: Lower Primary, Upper Primary Material Type: Activi...
Wind Power Basics
"Overview: This activity introduces wind energy concepts through a reading passage and by answering assessment questions. The main section of the activity involves constructing and testing a windmill to observe how desig...
Warm Up Quiz
"Overview: This is a ten-question quiz of basic to intermediate information about global climate change. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: Middle School, High School, Career...
Wind Maps
"Overview: This is a utility-scale, land-based map of the mean annual wind speed 80 meters above the ground. This map can be used to evaluate the potential for wind energy in the US. State maps and more information are l...
Vostok Core and Milankovic Cycles Climate Applet
"Overview: An applet about the Milankovitch cycle that relates temperature over the last 400,000 years to changes in the eccentricity, precession, and orbital tilt of Earth's orbit. Subject: Physical Science Level: Midd...
Wind Map
"Overview: This animated map shows prevailing surface wind direction and strength across the lower 48 states of the US. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: Middle School, High School, Community Colle...
Visualizing the Quantities of Climate Change
"Overview: This visualization is a series of three short animations/videos that illustrate how the changing ice sheets result in sea level rise. It uses satellite data to show how Greenland and Antarctica are losing mass...
Wind Energy: Exploring Wind Farms with Google Earth
"Overview: In this activity, students use Google Earth to investigate ideal features of wind farms. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: Middle School, High School, Community College / Lower Division,...
Wind Energy Basics
"Overview: Video introduces wind energy research at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) and provides an overview of the NREL Wind Technology Center near Boulder, Colorado. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical S...
Visualizing Carbon Pathways
"Overview: This activity introduces students to visualization capabilities available through NASA's Earth Observatory, global map collection, NASA NEO and ImageJ. Using these tools, students build several animations of s...
Wildfires Out West
"Overview: This video from ClimateCentral looks at the way climate conditions can affect vegetation in the West, and what influence this has on wildfires. Drought and rainfall can have very different wildfire outcomes, d...