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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Arctic Tundra May Contribute to Warmer World
"Overview: In this audio slideshow, an ecologist from the University of Florida describes the radiocarbon dating technique that scientists use to determine the amount of carbon within the permafrost of the Arctic tundra....
Arctic Sea Ice Is Losing Its Bulwark
"Overview: This visualization shows static and animated images of changes in Arctic sea ice 1984-2016. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: Middle School, High School, Community...
Arctic Sea Ice Concentrations for September (Minimum)
"Overview: This animation shows the Arctic sea ice September (minimum) extents from 1979-2016. Accessible from http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/sotc/sea_ice.html Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physica...
Arctic Climate Feedbacks
"Overview: This video uses film of the Arctic and Arctic researchers as well as animations to discuss feedbacks in the Arctic climate system related to sea ice, the ocean, and clouds. It explains concepts such as albedo...
Arctic Climate Curriculum, Activity 3: Exploring Arctic Climate Data
"Overview: In this activity, students use authentic Arctic climate data to unravel some causes and effects related to the seasonal melting of the snowpack and to further understand albedo. Subject: Environmental Science...
Arctic Climate Curriculum, Activity 2: Do you really want to visit the Arctic?
"Overview: In this jigsaw activity, students explore meteorological data collected from Eureka, Canada to try to decide when would be the best time for an Arctic visit. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science L...
Arctic Climate Curriculum, Activity 1: Exploring the Arctic
"Overview: This lesson sequence guides students to learn about the geography and the unique characteristics of the Arctic, including vegetation, and people who live there. Students use Google Earth to explore the Arctic...
ArcGIS Living Atlas - Indicators of the Planet
"Overview: Living Atlas Indicators of the Planet provide the user with up-to-date data, maps, graphs, charts, animation and other visuals to explore the science of climate and environmental change. 18 indicators from Air...
Anya: Citizen Science in Siberia - Young Voices on Climate Change
"Overview: Citizen scientist Anya, an indigenous Siberian girl, witnesses the changes in her community as a result of climate change after working with Woods Hole scientist Max Holmes' research team aboard her father's s...
Antarctica's Ice on the Move
"Overview: This activity is part of the Antarctica's Climate Secrets flexhibit. Students learn about and create models of glaciers and ice sheets, ice shelves, icebergs and sea ice. Subject: Physical Science Level: Midd...
Antarctica is losing ice at an accelerating rate. How much will sea levels rise?
"Overview: This video explains how scientists measure ice melt in Antarctica, the conditions of the ice sheet in Antarctica, and how that melting ice can contribute to sea level rise and affect communities all over the w...
Antarctica Ice
"Overview: This short video examines the recent melting ice shelves in the Antarctica Peninsula; the potential collapse of West Antarctic ice shelf; and how global sea levels, coastal cities, and beaches would be affecte...
Annual Arctic Sea ice Minimum 1979-2015 with Area Graph
"Overview: This series of visualizations show the annual Arctic sea ice minimum from 1979 to 2015. The decrease in Arctic sea ice over time is shown in an animation and a graph plotted simultaneously, but can be parsed s...
Animated Wind Capacity Map
"Overview: This map shows how much electrical power is produced from wind in each state from 1999 through 2010. The animation shows a general increase in the amount of wind power produced per state and the number of stat...
Ancient Ice and Our Planet's Future
"Overview: This short video describes how the compression of Antarctic snow into ice captures air from past atmospheres. It shows how ice cores are drilled from the Antarctic ice and prepared for shipment and subsequent...
Analyzing the data; "It's time to tell the story" about Buds, Leaves, and Global Warming
"Overview: In this activity, students explore how the timing of color change and leaf drop of New England's deciduous trees is changing. Subject: Environmental Studies, Ecology, Physical Science, Atmospheric Science, Ge...
Analyzing the data; "It's time to tell the story" about Buds, Leaves, and Global Warming
"Overview: In this activity, students explore how the timing of color change and leaf drop of New England's deciduous trees is changing. Subject: Environmental Studies, Ecology, Physical Science, Atmospheric Science, Ge...
Analyzing the Urban Heat Island Effect
"Overview: This activity covers the causes, effects, and mitigation of urban heat in New York City. Students use data sets, graphs, maps and images to create their own plan for mitigation in their area. Robust satellite...
The American Pika: A climate indicator species?
"Overview: This video provides a detailed description of the habitat of the American Pika and how this organism may serve as a climate indicator species because they have a relatively narrow ecological niche and speciali...
Amazing Expanding Ice
"Overview: Children experiment with freezing water to observe a state change of water, and discover that it is less dense as a solid (ice) than it is as a liquid (water). Amazing Expanding Ice is an overnight activity re...