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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Amazing Albedo
"Overview: This lesson is a lab in which students use thermometers, white and dark paper, and lamps to measure differences in albedo between the light and dark materials. Connections are made to albedo in Antarctica. Su...
All About Carbon Dioxide
"Overview: This animation depicts the carbon cycle in a fashion that is suited for younger audiences. The video discusses how carbon enters and exits the environment through both natural and human-driven ways. Subject:...
Algal Biofuels: An Emerging Renewable Energy
"Overview: In this activity, students explore the basic living requirements of algae (phytoplankton)through hands-on experience and an interactive game. Students investigate what algal biofuels are, how they are made, wh...
Air Quality and Community Health
"Overview: This video discusses ways that communities can prepare for air quality changes that will occur due to rising global temperatures. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level:...
Air: Fuel for Thought
"Overview: This lesson plan engages students in a real-life exploration of climate change as it is affected by greenhouse emissions from vehicles. The aim of this activity is for students to realize the impact of vehicle...
"After the Ice - Part 3: Our Story "
"Overview: This video discusses how the historic way of life for Arctic Native Americans has changed. Global climate change is altering the ice cycle (yearly coverage, depth, and persistence) in the Bering Sea and weathe...
After the Ice - Part 2: Our Land
"Overview: This 7-minute video illustrates how the historic homeland for Arctic Native Americans is being affected by climate change. Shorefast ice and pack ice are present for a shorter part of the year. This has profou...
After the Ice - Part 1: Our Food
"Overview: After the Ice: Our Food discusses changes in historic food sources for Arctic Native Americans. Global climate change is altering yearly cycles of both ice coverage and depth in the Bering Sea. Changes in the...
Aerial Photography and Mapping Lesson Plan: Images of Katrina
"Overview: This activity from NOAA Ocean Service is about using aerial photographs to assess the impact of extreme weather events such as Hurricane Katrina. The activity features aerial views of Biloxi, MS post-Katrina a...
AdÃlie Penguins
"Overview: A short video that discusses how changing climate is affecting the population of AdÃlie penguins. Subject: Environmental Science, Biology, Ecology, Physical Science Level: Middle School, High School, Career /...
Adapting to climate change
"Overview: This video uses Bangladesh as a case study by describing climate change adaptation strategies being implemented in Bangladeshi communities as well as in other countries. Subject: Physical Science Level: Middl...
Adapting to a Changing World
"Overview: In this activity, students assess individual and national opinions on climate change and explore strategies that communities are employing to adapt to aspects of climate change already affecting them in additi...
Adapting to a Changing Climate
"Overview: This 20-minute video, produced by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, describes adaptation strategies undertaken by several groups and nations in response to rising sea level and other aspects of cl...
Adapting a Garden to Heavy Rain
"Overview: This activity focuses on adapting to climate change and building resilience to heavy rainfalls in the context of a garden. Students devise, create, and test ideas for protecting a garden from heavy rains. C...
Acid Oceans
"Overview: This video follows biologist Gretchen Hofmann as she studies the effects of ocean acidification on sea urchin larvae. Subject: Environmental Science, Biology, Ecology, Physical Science Level: Middle School, H...
Absorption by atmospheric gases of incoming and outgoing radiation
"Overview: In this activity, students use the absorption spectra of greenhouse gases to explore the nature of the greenhouse effect. Subject: Environmental Science, Physical Science, Atmospheric Science, Physics Level:...
Abrupt Events of the Past 70 Million Years â Evidence from Scientific Ocean Drilling
"Overview: In this 6-part activity, students learn about climate change during the Cenozoic and the abrupt changes at the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary (65.5 million years ago), the Eocene/Oligocene boundary (33.9 millio...
AK-03 ALASKA: AK-03 Columbia Glacier "Cliff" (Narrated)
"Overview: A video from the Extreme Ice Survey in which Dr. Tad Pfeffer and photographer Jim Balog discuss the dynamics of the Columbia glacier's retreat in recent years through this time-lapse movie. Key point: glacier...
ADAPTATION: Invasive Carp of Kentucky
"Overview: In this video, an entrepreneur is finding new ways to manage the invasive Asian carp problem in the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Once introduced to help mitigate an algae problem, the carp became invasive. Thi...
ADAPTATION: Ice Stupas of Ladakh
"Overview: In this video, learn how communities in the arid high-mountain region of Ladakh rely on glacial water to feed streams and water crops during the spring and summer months. Global warming is dramatically reshapi...