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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The Carbon Crisis in 90 Seconds
"Overview: This video features a short animated sequence that illustrates the difference between young and old carbon released into the atmosphere from the consumption of food (young carbon) and the burning of fossil fue...
Carbon City Zero World Edition Game
"Overview: In this interactive game, players develop a sustainable city by greening transport, transforming industries, getting citizens on board, and showing world leaders how it's done. Players will need to bring toget...
Carbon Calculator Activity
"Overview: In this learning activity, students use a web-based carbon calculator to determine their carbon footprint on the basis of their personal and household habits and choices. Students identify which personal activ...
Capturing Carbon
"Overview: This PBS video shows how Klaus Lackner, a geophysicist at Columbia University, is trying to tackle the problem of rising atmospheric CO2 levels by using an idea inspired by his daughter's 8th-grade science fai...
Can wildlife adapt to climate change? - Erin Eastwood
Can wildlife adapt to climate change? - Erin Eastwood "Overview: This video focuses on animals that have quickly evolved in order to meet their needs from the impacts of climate change. Subject: Environmental Science, E...
Campus Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory
"Overview: Students conduct a greenhouse gas emission inventory for their college or university as a required part of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment. Subject: Environmental Science, En...
C-ROADS: World Climate Simulator
"Overview: C-ROADS is a simplified version of a climate simulator. Its primary purpose is to help users understand the long-term climate effects (CO2 concentrations, global temperature, sea level rise) of various customi...
CO2 & the Atmosphere
"Overview: This video is narrated by climate scientist Richard Alley. It examines studies US Air Force conducted over 50 years ago on the warming effects of CO2 in the atmosphere and how that could impact missile warfare...
CO2 in the Ice Core Record
"Overview: This video segment, from the 'Earth: The Operators' Manual' featuring climate expert Richard Alley, shows how ice cores stored at the National Ice Core Lab provide evidence that ancient ice contains records of...
Byrd Polar Research Center Climate Model Simulation
"Overview: This set of animations and interactive simulations from the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University helps students develop an understanding of models used to understand the Earth system. Students c...
Building a Fire National Risk Index: Indigenous Lands Map
"Overview: This is a static image created in ArcGis from the Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network non-profit that juxtaposes the risk of 18 natural hazards (as defined by Federal Emergency Management Agency) with the a...
Build a Wind-Powered Machine
"Overview: This activity involves building a tiny, wind-powered elevator in the form of a small cup lifted by a pinwheel. The elevator could be used to lift things from the ground floor to the second floor of a house you...
The Buffer Zone: Acid-base Chemistry in the World
"Overview: In this activity, students conduct a short hands-on demonstration that simulates ocean acidification resulting from excess atmospheric carbon dioxide and discuss potential implications of increases in ocean te...
Blooming Thermometers
"Overview: In this activity, students develop an understanding of the relationship between natural phenomena, weather, and climate change: the study known as phenology. In addition, they learn how cultural events are tie...
The Blob' - The Story of the Pacific Heatwave
"Overview: This video explores the affect on seabirds of a three year ocean warming event (2013-16) in the NW Pacific. With ocean warming, a massive die off occurred based on the decline of food resources. Subject: Envi...
The Blob' - The Story of the Pacific Heatwave
"Overview: This video explores the affect on seabirds of a three year ocean warming event (2013-16) in the NW Pacific. With ocean warming, a massive die off occurred based on the decline of food resources. Subject: Envi...
Black Carbon: Dirty Sidekick of CO2
"Overview: This resource explores the concept of black carbon and its contribution to climate change and human health through videos and discussion questions, and engages students in discussions about these impacts and p...
Birds, Mosquitoes, and Viruses
"Overview: In this activity, students distinguish between directly and indirectly transmitted diseases and participate in a group game to simulate the spread of vector-borne diseases. They then research a particular path...
Bird's Eye View Lesson Plan
"Overview: In this activity, students construct "flying birds" (pollution collectors) from paper and wire hangers. Students hang up their birds to see how they react to air pollution, and compare and make obser...
Bioprospecting for cellulose-degrading microbes: Individual Isolate Method
"Overview: This is a long-term inquiry activity in which students investigate locations they believe harbor cellulose-digesting microbes, collect samples, isolate them on selective media, and screen them for cellulase ac...