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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Climate Mental Health: Active Listening Skills
"Overview: In this lesson, students will identify emotions they experience as they learn about the impacts of climate change. In pairs, students will practice active listening skills as one student describes their emotio...
Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation
"Overview: This interactive resource allows users to investigate current and predicted future climate-related hazards on a nationwide scale and in specific locations. The Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation...
Climate Heroes: Stories of Change
"Overview: This documentary film takes the viewer on a virtual trip around the world to visit communities in different countries (Asia, Africa, Central America, Australia) taking action on climate change. The documentary...
Climate Feedback Loops
"Overview: This is the seventh of nine lessons in the 'Visualizing and Understanding the Science of Climate Change' website. This lesson addresses climate feedback loops and how these loops help drive and regulate Earth'...
Climate Emergency Feedback Loops Permafrost Video
"Overview: The video provides a comprehensive overview of what permafrost is and why it matters in the context of climate change. The video includes: The definition of permafrost, the geographic extent, defines the probl...
Climate Emergency Feedback Loops Atmosphere Video
"Overview: This video describes the influence of global warming on the water vapor feedback loop and weather pattern frequency/intensity by using expert scientists and graphical illustrations. Reputable scientists are...
Climate Emergency Feedback Loops Albedo Video
"Overview: This 10 minute video describes the influence of global warming on climate-related feedback loops. This video uses expert scientists and graphical illustrations to describe the importance of arctic reflectivity...
The Climate Crisis Trial: A Role Play on the Roots of Global Warming
"Overview: Students will learn and research who is culpable in climate change by participating in a role-playing trial. Students represent different groups (i.e. US government, consumers, oil and coal industry) and must...
Climate Change in Your Own Backyard
"Overview: In this lesson set, students begin unpacking the complex aspects of climate change by analyzing the global impacts of extreme weather events. After that, they narrow their focus through various national, regio...
Climate Change at the Doorstep
"Overview: This PBS video focuses on sea level rise in Norfolk, Virginia and how the residents are managing the logistical, financial and political implications. Science journalists who have been studying Norfolk's risin...
Climate Change and the Water Cycle
"Overview: This unit consists of seven distinct activities that teach climate change, the water cycle, and the effects of the changing climate on water resources through the use of games, science experiments, investigati...
Climate Change and the Oceans
"Overview: This activity covers the role that the oceans may play in climate change and how climate change may affect the oceans. It is lesson 8 in a nine-lesson module Visualizing and Understanding the Science of Climat...
Climate Change and the Carbon Cycle
"Overview: This unit introduces high school students to climate change, the carbon cycle, and the effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide on Earth's climate. Students create a model from string, toss bean bags,...
Climate Change and Risks of New Pandemics
"Overview: Through this lesson plan your students will learn that human induced climate change causes biodiversity disturbances and could be responsible for the increased risk of animal virus spillover into human populat...
Climate Change Wildlife and Wildlands
"Overview: This video focuses on the science of climate change and its impacts on wildlife on land and in the sea, and their habitats in the U.S. There are short sections on walruses, coral reefs, migrating birds and the...
Climate Change Jigsaw
"Overview: This Jigsaw exercise has students discuss radio stories from the Yale Climate Connections (YCC) project as a team to deepen their thinking around climate change issues. Subject: Environmental Science, Environ...
Climate Change Indicators: US and Global Temperature
"Overview: This resource is part of a collection of visualizations that illustrate observed changes in temperature, precipitation, storms, floods, and droughts. This resource focuses on US and Global temperature. Rising...
Climate Change Indicators: U.S. and Global Precipitation
"Overview: This graphic indicator describes trends in average precipitation for the United States and the world. Subject: Physical Science Level: Upper Primary, Middle School, High School, Community College / Lower Divi...
Climate Change Indicators: Drought
"Overview: This graphic indicator measures drought conditions of U.S. lands. Subject: Physical Science Level: Upper Primary, Middle School, High School, Community College / Lower Division, Adult Education Material Type:...
Climate Change Impacts
"Overview: This comprehensive student and teacher guide from the MIT Climate Portal includes an introductory 10 minute podcast about water and climate change impacts, a water cycle class game, independent understanding o...