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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Biomass - Investigating Gases
"Overview: In this lab activity students generate their own biomass gases by heating wood pellets or wood splints in a test tube. They collect the resulting gases and use the gas to roast a marshmallow. Students also eva...
Biomass - Creating Bio-Diesel
"Overview: This detailed chemistry lesson from the U.S. Department of Energy focuses on transforming vegetable oil into biodiesel through a process of transesterification. The process described offers a good model for ma...
Biofuels/Biomass Cellulose Lab
"Overview: In this lab activity, students investigate how to prepare a biofuel source for conversion to a combustible product. The activity models how raw materials are refined to process liquid fuels. Subject: Environm...
Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters
"Overview: This set of interactive data visualizations show the weather and climate events that have had the greatest economic impact on the US from 1980 to 2016. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, P...
The Big Melt
"Overview: This is a collection of five short videos that show how climate change is affecting fishing, native populations and access for the oil and gas industry in the Arctic. The videos include personal reflections by...
Beat the Uncertainty: Planning Climate-Resilient Cities
"Overview: This learning activity explores the concept of resiliency. It allows students to make city planning decisions and then employs a game to test their resilience decisions against potential impacts from severe we...
Basic Coordinates and Seasons Lab
"Overview: This interactive activity, in applet form, guides students through the motion of the sun and how they relate to seasons. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science, Geoscience, Space Science Level: High...
Baking the Breadbasket: Persistent Drought in the Heartland
"Overview: In this video, NOAA's Deke Arndt, Chief of the Climate Monitoring Branch at the National Climatic Data Center, recaps the temperature and precipitation data for the continental US in summer 2012. It describes...
Back to the Future: Climate Edition
"Overview: This activity engages students through an exploration using real data of paleoclimate proxies, such as ice cores, tree rings, and sedimentary analysis that provide evidence for past climates. This comprehen...
At the Core of Climate Change
"Overview: This video shows where and how ice cores are extracted from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The cores are cut, packaged, flown to the ice core storage facility in Denver, further sliced into samples, and shipped...
Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide
"Overview: This is a figure from the 2007 IPCC Assessment Report 4 on atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide over the last 10,000 years (large panels) and since 1750 (inset panels). Subj...
Atmospheric Carbon: Can We Offset the Increase?
"Overview: This is a multi-step activity that helps students measure, investigate, and understand the increase in atmospheric CO2 and the utility of carbon offsets. It also enables students to understand that carbon offs...
Atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa Observatory
"Overview: These graphs show carbon dioxide measurements at the Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii. The graphs display recent measurements as well as historical long term measurements. The related website summarizes in graphs...
Atlas of Change
"Overview: In this activity, students explore the web-based U.S. Forest Service Climate Change Atlas to learn about projected climate changes in their state and how suitable habitat for tree and bird species is projected...
Assessing Drought in the United States
"Overview: This easy-to-understand video animation describes drought and explains the different categories of drought used by the drought monitor. It discusses the effects of and contributions to drought, what the implic...
Assess burn scars with satellite imagery
"Overview: Using Landsat 8 imagery from before and after the 2015 wildfire season in Glacier National Park, Montana, learners calculate the damage using a Normalized Burn Index, digitize the burn area, and publish to Arc...
As Permafrost Thaws, Scientists Study the Risks
"Overview: This article and slide show from the New York Times, features several scientists from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who study the effects of thawing permafrost in Alaska. Subject: Environmental Science...
The Art of Clouds
"Overview: This activity focuses on cloud identification and art. It combines art and science and uses art history to help students in their observations and cloud descriptions. This resource focuses on clouds and clo...
Are You An Energy Efficient Consumer?
"Overview: This activity engages students in learning about ways to become energy efficient consumers. Students examine how different countries and regions around the world use energy over time, as reflected in night lig...
"Are Humans Influencing Modern Climate? "
"Overview: In this short video, host Dr. Ryan interviews graduate student Amy Steiker at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research about her research, using isotopes of nitrous oxide, connecting human activity to green...