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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Colorado River water supply
"Overview: This activity addresses climate change impacts that affect all states that are part of the Colorado River Basin and are dependent on its water. Students examine available data, the possible consequences of cha...
Earth as a System
"Overview: This short video uses animated imagery from satellite remote sensing systems to illustrate that Earth is a complex, evolving body characterized by ceaseless change. Adapted from NASA, this visualization helps...
ESRI Drought Tracker
"Overview: Using US Drought Monitor data and its classification system, this interactive tool tracks drought in the continental US by county, from 2000 to the present. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studi...
Dynamic and Complex: The Global Water Cycle
"Overview: This visualization provides a basic overview of the water cycle. Users can move their mouse or finger over any of the labelled boxes and click to obtain more information. This is a scientifically accurate,...
Drought is devastating crops in the Midwest
"Overview: In 2023, much of the US Midwest was abnormally dry, according to official drought monitor figures. In this video farmers describe how they are feeling about the adverse effects of climate change. Teaching t...
Earth System: Ice and Global Warming
"Overview: In this video, students learn that scientific evidence strongly suggests that different regions on Earth do not respond equally to increased temperatures. Ice-covered regions appear to be particularly sensitiv...
Drought in the Colorado Basin
"Overview: This series of visualizations is part of a rich multi-agency effort to showcase the usefulness of open data (i.e., data provided in a discoverable, sharable, and machine-readable format) by exploring the 16-ye...
CoCoRaHS: Weather vs Climate
"Overview: This animated video describes the difference between weather and climate in a fun and engaging way. It provides a brief overview of both topics and covers common misconceptions and logical fallacies about clim...
Drought: Identifying Impacts and Evaluating Solutions Lesson Plan
"Overview: Through this set of lessons, students learn about the impacts of water shortages due to drought, make connections to climate patterns, and explore community resiliency solutions. The lessons engage students in...
Drought: Identifying Impacts and Evaluating Solutions
"Overview: In this set of activities, students learn about impacts of drought through news videos of communities facing serious water shortages, analyze drought data and models, and research and evaluate potential soluti...
Drought Basics
"Overview: This PBS Learning Media activity addresses drought basics, including its causes and impacts and ways to assess it, by using media from NOAA and NASA. It defines the types of drought, the impacts, monitoring, a...
Cloudy vs. Clear
"Overview: Students analyze and interpret graphs to compare the flow of shortwave energy from the Sun toward China over the course of a year on cloudy versus clear days. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Stu...
Drought Affects California's Water Availability
"Overview: In this resource, students learn about changes in water availability due to drought in California from 2013 to 2017. This resource provides opportunities for students to interpret data and analyze imagery for...
Drilling Back to the Future: Climate Clues from Ancient Ice on Greenland
"Overview: This video, from ClimateCentral, features a team of scientists from the Northern Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling Project who study atmospheric air bubbles trapped in an ice core. This work highlights a period in...
Dreaming in Green - Young Voices for the Planet
"Overview: In this video from Young Voices for the Planet, four middle-school girls (The Green Team) talk about their efforts to work with their peers to reduce the carbon footprint of their school and how they made the...
Dr. Susan Prichard and Pine Beetles
"Overview: In this video, scientist Dr. Susan Prichard discusses the impact of pine bark beetles on western forests. She explains how climate change, specifically rising temperatures, is exacerbating the problem. Subjec...
Clouds Protocol
"Overview: Students observe which types of clouds are visible, how much of the sky is covered by clouds, and the opacity of clouds. They also report on surface and sky conditions, to complement views from satellites. Su...
Don't Take Our Voices Away' A role play on the Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change
"Overview: This resource has students role-play an Indigenous climate summit. It includes handouts about each Indigenous group and their concerns about climate change. Subject: Environmental Science, Agriculture, Enviro...
Does air have weight?
"Overview: The purpose of this hands-on activity is to demonstrate that air has weight and how this fact can be concretely illustrated. Eventually and through more experience gained by conducting mind-engaging activities...
Does Climate Change Cause Extreme Weather?
"Overview: This video provides a good introduction to the field of attribution science. Beginning with an introduction to weather and climate, it describes how severe weather might be linked to climate change and the sci...