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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What's Happening to Our Climate: Natural Factors Cannot Explain the Recent Warming
"Overview: This classroom resource is a combination of 3 visualizations and accompanying text that illustrate how 3 key natural phenomena - cyclical changes in solar energy output, major volcanic eruptions over the last...
Vanishing Island: Sea Level Rise
"Overview: This video features interviews with native people living on atoll islands in Micronesia, so viewers are able to understand the real, current threats that these people are facing due to climate change. Subject...
Wildfires: Impact of Climate Change
"Overview: This activity provides opportunities for students to embed themselves in the process of science as they follow the efforts of the scientist collecting field data. Although data is not provided with this activi...
What's Causing Sea-Level Rise? Land Ice Vs. Sea Ice
"Overview: This activity allows students to explore sea level rise. The experiment allows them to test whether land ice and/or sea ice contribute to sea level rise as they melt. Subject: Environmental Science, Environme...
Wildfire Simulation
"Overview: This is a wildfire simulation with three different zones (plains, mountains, and foothills). The user can change variables to see what happens when they spark a fire. Subject: Environmental Science, Environme...
Using the Very, Very Simple Climate Model in the Classroom
"Overview: This is a teaching activity in which students learn about the connection between CO2 emissions, CO2 concentration, and average global temperatures. Through a simple online model, students learn about the relat...
What's An Ice Core?
"Overview: This animation starts with a schematic illustration of glacier growth and then introduces six different methods that researchers use when studying ice cores in order to deduce the climate of the past. The rese...
Wildfire Risk and Impact
"Overview: This highly engaging course is comprised of five modules. Each one clearly explains the concept using readings and videos. Students are presented with the current fire and climate data and then run simulations...
What prime movers have generated the most electricity since 1900?
"Overview: This resource includes primarily a text and animation to demonstrate the changes in prime movers of electricity generation in the United States between 1891 and 2021. The information is related back to the fea...
Using the Carbon Cycle Interactive Game in the Classroom
"Overview: In this activity, students learn how carbon cycles through the Earth system by playing an online game. Subject: Physical Science Level: Upper Primary, Middle School, High School, Career / Technical Material T...
What makes a greenhouse gas a greenhouse gas?
"Overview: This activity utilizes a PhET greenhouse gas simulation to explore the interaction of different atmospheric gases with different types of radiation. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science, Atmospher...
Wild Weather
"Overview: This activity includes a set of slides with embedded images, animations, and interactives that students use to investigate extreme weather events. This is module 8 of a Satellite Meteorology course. Subject:...
Using NASA NEO and ImageJ to Explore the Role of Snow Cover in Shaping Climate
"Overview: In this activity students download satellite images displaying land surface temperature, snow cover, and reflected short wave radiation data from the NASA Earth Observation (NEO) Web site. They then explore an...
What makes a gas, a greenhouse gas?
"Overview: Students act out 4 different molecules (nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and water vapor) to discover which ones are greenhouse gases and which ones are not. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Stud...
Why fly south? How climate change alters the phenology of plants and animals
"Overview: This activity introduces students to plotting and analyzing phenology data. Students use 30 years of data that shows the date of the first lilac bloom and the number of days of ice cover of nearby Gull Lake....
Using NASA Earth-Observing Satellites to Help Improve Agriculture and Water Usage
"Overview: In this resource, students learn about freshwater resources, how NASA uses satellites to measure precipitation, and how that data can be used in agricultural practices. Students use data from the NASA Global P...
What is the Future of Earth's Climate?
"Overview: This is a series of 5 guided-inquiry activities that examine data and models that climate scientists use to attempt to answer the question of Earth's future climate. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmen...
Using Data to Identify Hot Spots and Predict Bleaching Events
"Overview: In this EarthLabs activity, learners explore the concepts of coral bleaching, bleaching hot spots and degree-heating weeks. Using data products from NOAA's Coral Reef Watch, students identify bleaching hot spo...
Why Does Satellite Climate Data Matter?
"Overview: In this video, a spokesperson for the National Climactic Data Center describes the methods of using satellites (originally designed for observing changes in the weather) to study changes in climate from decade...
What is ecosystem-based adaptation?
"Overview: Healthy ecosystems can reduce the negative impacts of climate change. For instance, coastal habitats like mangroves provide natural flood defenses, well-protected lakes retain water sources during droughts, an...