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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United States electricity history in four charts
"Overview: This resource from Boston University includes an informational animation with text to demonstrate the changes in prime movers of electricity generation in the United States between 1891 and 2021. The informati...
Why Do We Need to Rapidly Reduce CO2 Emissions?
"Overview: This resource is a high quality video with a an engaging narrative discussing the need to cut carbon dioxide emissions in order to reduce the concentration in the atmosphere. Subject: Environmental Science, E...
What is coral bleaching?
"Overview: This infographic provides an overview of what coral bleaching is and its causes. The resource combines short summaries of the steps of coral bleaching with more in-depth (though still succinct) explanations fo...
Why Do Some Molecules Absorb Infrared Energy?
"Overview: In this short, hands-on activity, students build simple molecular models of 4 atmospheric gases (O2, N2, C02, and methane), compare their resonant frequencies, and make the connection between resonant frequenc...
Understanding the Mountain Pine Beetle
"Overview: This lesson plan has students working in small groups to research the Mountain Pine Beetle in Colorado and other inter-mountain Western states. Students identify the factors that control pine beetle population...
Where do you put a wind farm?
"Overview: In this learning activity, students analyze various sources of information to determine the best location for a new wind farm. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: Middle School, High Schoo...
What is a watershed?
"Overview: In this activity students build a model of a watershed to learn where water goes when it rains. Students then make predictions and draw what they observe. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies...
What's the Difference Between Weather and Climate?
"Overview: This video, video transcript, and accompanying poster, go beyond a description of weather and climate to highlight how NASA tracks the changes in climate and why it matters. Students will leave the video with...
Understanding the Carbon Cycle: A Jigsaw Approach
"Overview: This is a jigsaw activity in which students are assigned to research one step out of five in the geochemical process stages of the organic carbon cycle. Students then teach their step in cross-step groups unti...
What is a Model?
"Overview: In this interactive activity students will create a very simple climate model. They use worksheets, chips/tokens, and follow rules for heat exchange. The activity only models temperature but there are instruct...
What's the Bigger Picture? Using the Power of Art to Teach Science
"Overview: In this lesson, students combine art and science to interpret and illustrate graphical art. They first learn about artists who develop images based on climate graphs and then create their own. Subject: Enviro...
What is Weather?
"Overview: This activity introduces the concept of weather. Students follow the first stages of the scientific process to investigate the four factors that contribute to making weather what it is. Subject: Environmental...
Understanding Sea Level Using Real Data
"Overview: This module contains five activities, in increasing complexity, that focus on understanding how to interpret and manipulate sea level data, using real data from NOAA. Students first need to understand how to a...
What's in the Atmosphere?
"Overview: This interactive visualization allows users to scroll on their device to view what types of characteristics and objects might be found at different points in the atmosphere. Using an indicator of miles (or kil...
What is Ice Albedo Feedback?
"Overview: This video provides a good overview of ice-albedo feedback. Albedo-Climate feedback is a positive feedback that builds student understanding of climate change. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental St...
Understanding Climate Modeling
"Overview: This lesson plan is the second in a series of 6 modules on climate change. This lesson plan defines common vocabulary such as model, trend, projection, prediction, weather, and climate. Students will practice...
What is Albedo?
"Overview: In this resource, students watch a 2-minute video explaining albedo. The video shows visualizations of albedo across Earth and how it can change. Students will interpret the images in the video and answer ques...
What's Really Warming the World?
"Overview: This is a series of graphical animations that compare the contribution of natural factors (including orbital changes, variability in the sun's temperature, volcanic action, deforestation, ozone pollution level...
What if the Ice Shelves Melted?
"Overview: This activity is a hands-on guided inquiry activity designed to highlight the role of an ice shelf on slowing the movement of continental ice sheets in Antarctica. Students build a model of Antarctica and both...
What's Happening to our Climate: The Problem
"Overview: Two short, narrated animations about carbon dioxide and Earth's temperature are presented on this webpage. The first animation shows the rise in atmospheric CO2 levels, human carbon emissions, and global tempe...