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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Do Different Colors Absorb Heat Better?
"Overview: This is a STEM activity to learn how different colors absorb light better than others. Vocabulary and investigating questions are included to facilitate discussion, and a rubric is provided for assessment. Su...
Direct Air Capture and The Future of Climate Change
"Overview: This activity engages students with the concept of Direct Air Capture. Students watch an engaging film, participate in a reading and writing activity, and then model carbon dioxide adsorption/desorption in an...
Cloud Lab
"Overview: This cloud lab allows exploration of cloud identification, reconstructing and following hurricanes, and interpreting and investigating data. Graphs and other data interpretation are used heavily throughout the...
Differences Between Climate and Weather
"Overview: In this activity, students collect weather data over several days or weeks, graph temperature data, and compare the temperature data collected with long-term climate averages from where they live. Understandin...
Detecting El NiÃo in Sea Surface Temperature Data
"Overview: This multi-part activity introduces users to normal seasonal sea surface temperature (SST) variation as well as extreme variation, as in the case of El NiÃo and La NiÃa events, in the equatorial Pacific Ocean....
Dendrochronology - Trees: Recorders of Climate Change
"Overview: In this activity, students are introduced to tree rings by examining a cross section of a tree, also known as a 'tree cookie.' They discover how tree age can be determined by studying the rings and how ring th...
Decrease in Carbon Isotope Ratios
"Overview: This three-panel figure is an infographic showing how carbon and oxygen isotope ratios, temperature, and carbonate sediments have changed during the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. The figure caption provid...
Decoding Ice CoresâIsotopic AnalysisâHow warm was the Earth in the past?
"Overview: This lab activity teaches students about isotopes in ice cores and how different isotopes can tell us about the past climate. Students measure the mass of pennies as a proxy for different isotopes and build an...
Climate change affecting mental health in Northern Labrador
"Overview: This high quality 10 minute video explores concepts of climate vulnerability to livelihoods, mental health, and agency of Indigenous Inuit people in northern Labrador, Canada through interviews with community...
Decoding Ice Cores: Proxy and Direct Measurement
"Overview: This two-part lab series from the US Ice Drilling Program teaches students about the process of science. It supports an understanding of how scientists use direct and indirect measurements to gain insight into...
Decoding Antarctica's Climate History - Antarctica's Climate Secrets
"Overview: This 10 minute video builds connections between topics that are important in climate science such as: the impact of variations in Earth's orbit and wobble on it's axis on climate; how the cores being sampled f...
Debunking Cranky Uncle on the carbon cycle
"Overview: This video illustrates the Keeling curve as evidence to establish man's role in global climate change. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Science, Atmospheric Science Level: Upper...
Climate change: How do we know?
"Overview: This static graph of changes in CO2 concentrations goes back 400,000 years, showing the dramatic spike in recent years. Subject: Atmospheric Science Level: Middle School, High School, Community College / Lowe...
Climate Wizard
"Overview: This is an interactive webtool that allows the user to choose a state or country and both assess how climate has changed over time and project what future changes are predicted to occur in a given area. Subje...
Climate Wisconsin: Stories From a State of Change
"Overview: This video provides background information and teaching tips about the history and relevance of phenology and seasonal observations of plants and animals within the context of rural Wisconsin. Subject: Enviro...
Climate Wisconsin Ice Cover
"Overview: This is an interactive graph that involves records of ice cover in two Wisconsin lakes - Lake Mendota and Lake Monona - from 1855-2010. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Science...
Climate Wisconsin: Extreme Heat
"Overview: This short video addresses the effects of heat waves on human populations, with Black residents of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the visual subjects. The narrative is done by a young spoken- word artist. Subject:...
Climate Wisconsin Adaptation-Mitigation
"Overview: This short, animated video describes what is meant by climate, its characteristics, and the range of impacts due to climate change. The difference between mitigation and adaptation is also discussed. Subject:...
Climate Variability in the North Atlantic
"Overview: In this activity, students examine climate variability in the North Atlantic associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NOA) in a case study format. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies,...
Climate Time Machine
"Overview: This series of four animations shows how some of the key indicators of climate change (average global temperature, sea level, sea ice extent, carbon emissions) have changed in Earth's recent history. Subject:...