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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Understanding Climate Change and the Role of Nature in Creating Resilience
"Overview: This comprehensive resource presents an entire 6 part unit for understanding major themes in climate change including common misperceptions, global and seasonal trends, and disproportionate risk to climate cha...
What do You Know about Climate Change?
"Overview: This online quiz tests knowledge about climate change, its impacts, how we know about earth's climate, and potential solutions. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: U...
Understanding Albedo
"Overview: This activity teaches students about the albedo of surfaces and how it relates to the ice-albedo feedback effect. During an experiment, students observe the albedo of two different colored surfaces by measurin...
What are the causes and effects of ENSO?
"Overview: This activity addresses naturally occurring climate change involving ENSO (El-NiÃo Southern Oscillation). In this activity, students play the role of a policy maker in Peru. First, they determine what sort of...
What-a-cycle
"Overview: In this activity, students act as water molecules and travel through parts of the water cycle (ocean, atmosphere, clouds, glaciers, snow, rivers, lakes, ground, aquifer). Students use a diagram of the hydrolog...
The USGS Water Cycle
"Overview: This visualization depicts the global water cycle. It includes how human water use affects where water is stored, how it moves, and how clean it is. This comprehensive diagram depicts the global water cycle...
What Makes Cities So Hot?
"Overview: This short video introduces the concept of the urban heat island effect. This is a very quick video that focuses on urban heat islands. Some concepts, such as waste heat, may need to be further explained....
US Energy Production and Consumption
"Overview: In this activity, students explore energy production and consumption by contrasting regional energy production in five different US regions. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science, Physics Level: Mi...
What Is the Greenhouse Effect?
"Overview: Introductory video of greenhouse gases, how they are observed, and why they are important. The concept of the greenhouse effect is explained well. The data shown in the video is over a decade old, bu...
US Energy History Visualization
"Overview: This animation displays the relative importance of energy sources in the US from 1805 to present, by fuel and sector, as measured in watts per capita. The interactive also shows the changes in energy sources a...
U.S. Drought Monitor
"Overview: This is a real-time map of current drought conditions in the US, which can be zoomed to the state level, with access to many more resources at that level. Some of these include the National Drought Regional Su...
Tuvalu - Islands on the frontline of climate change
"Overview: This narrated slideshow describes the impact of sea level rise on Tuvalu, one of the low-lying island nations in the South Pacific. As the frequency and intensity of floods and cyclones increases, the island i...
Smart Power Grid
"Overview: This video segment, adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, addresses how new technology can help monitor and modernize the infrastructure of the U.S. power grid, which is ill-equipped to handle our increasing demand fo...
Simulation of international negotiations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
"Overview: In this activity, students engage in a simulation of the international negotiation process in order to convey how the international community is responding to climate change. Participants learn firsthand about...
Shrinking Glaciers: A Chronology of Climate Change
"Overview: This video features scientists in New Zealand's Southern Alps, examining samples from the rocky landscape once dominated by glaciers. Their research, combined with other climate records, has revealed a link be...
Shrinking Forest - Growing Problem
"Overview: This activity guides users through a series of steps for measuring land use change in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil in three different years. Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images students calculate ho...
Turning Waste Into Energy
"Overview: This video discusses how methane digesters turn waste from dairy cows, food garbage, and other organic matter into usable gases and other fuels. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: Middle...
Tropical Ice Cores Measure Climate
"Overview: This video profiles glaciologist Lonnie Thompson and his research into tropical mountain glaciers as a way to understand climate history. Beginning in the 1970s, Thompson recognized that tropical ice cores con...
Show Your Stripes - Changes in Temperature
"Overview: These 'warming stripe' graphics are visual representations of the change in temperature as measured in each country over the past 100+ years. Each stripe represents the temperature in that country averaged ove...
Tribal Climate Tool
"Overview: This tribal climate tool provides maps, graphs and reports that summarize projected changes in climate for specific tribes in the Pacific Northwest and Great Basin. Subject: Environmental Science, Environment...