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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Shine - Mini climate change musical
"Overview: This learning activity is a climate change musical for K-12, youth groups or faith organizations. Shine weaves together climate science and performance art into a fun and powerful story, which spans 300 millio...
Trees, Forests, and Climate Change
"Overview: In this activity, students will learn about and model the carbon cycle. Using data from Global Forest Watch, students investigate regional and global patterns of forest loss, gain, and carbon emissions to answ...
Selecting Sites for Renewable Energy Projects
"Overview: In this activity, students use Google Earth to investigate a variety of renewable energy sources and select sites within the United States that would be appropriate for projects based on those sources. Subjec...
Sediments and the Global Carbon Cycle
"Overview: This series of activities is designed to introduce students to the role of sediments and sedimentary rocks in the global carbon cycle. Students learn how stable carbon isotopes can be used to reconstruct ancie...
Tree Rings: Counting the Years of Global Warming
"Overview: This video describes the role that dendrochronology plays in understanding climate change, especially changes to high elevation environments at an upper tree line. Dendrochronologists from the Big Sky Institut...
The Second Solution: Riparian Restoration
"Overview: This video illustrates how one community developed and implemented a sustainable solution to help keep stream water cool enough for healthy fish. Their solution has the added benefit of removing CO2 from the a...
Seasons and Ecliptic Simulator
"Overview: An interactive simulation of Earth's seasonal dynamics that includes the axial tilt and other aspects of Earth's annual cycle. This is part of a larger lab from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln: http://as...
Translating Climate Change into Music
"Overview: In this lesson, students collect outdoor observational data to create a song about climate change. Intermediate music students will not only earn a greater appreciation for Alaska, but also for nature. These a...
Tracking Water Using NASA Satellite Data
"Overview: Using real data from NASA's GRACE satellites, students will track water mass changes in the U.S., data that measures changes in ice, surface and especially groundwater. The background information includes an a...
Pixels on Fire
"Overview: In this activity, students use measurement and area skills to learn about remote detection of wildfires from space. After detecting mock wildfires with mobile devices, students then study satellite-data visual...
Seasons Interactive
"Overview: An interactive that illustrates the relationships between the axial tilt of the Earth, latitude, and temperature. Several data sets (including temperature, Sun-Earth distance, daylight hours) can be generated....
Pika Models + Climate Change
"Overview: Students explore the life of pikas, tiny mammals that live in alpine areas, and how they are being impacted by climate change. After a brief introduction which includes a reading, a short video, and a story th...
Photovoltaics: A Diverse Technology
"Overview: This video reviews how photovoltaic (PV) cells work, noting that technological innovations are decreasing costs and allowing PV use to expand. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: High Scho...
Photosynthesis: Calculating Biomass and Carbon Storage in Trees
"Overview: In this lesson students measure the diameter of trees to determine the biomass of the tree and how much carbon the tree is taking up during photosynthesis. Teaching tip: The topic of the lesson is a tree's...
Phenology Trends and Climate Change in Minnesota
"Overview: In this module, students will practice answering a specific question about how climate change has affected the flowering date in American elm trees. After students learn to manipulate the elm data set, build g...
Seasonal Change on Land and Water
"Overview: In this worksheet-based activity, students review global visualizations of incoming sunlight and surface temperature and discuss seasonal change. Students use the visualizations to support inquiry on the diffe...
Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington
"Overview: This video features Dr. Gary Griggs, a scientist with the National Research Council, discussing predictions for sea-level rise on the West Coast states. The video includes effective visualizations and animatio...
Sea Level Rise Viewer
"Overview: This web mapping tool allows users to investigate impacts of sea level rise. Data is included from across the United States at different scales. Various timelines and sea level rise projections can be explored...
Sea Level Rise: Threatened Areas Maps
"Overview: This interactive tool allows viewers to explore, by county, the areas of California threatened by a rise in sea level through this century. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Scie...
Sea Level Rise
"Overview: This very short video introduces the concept of sea level rise and ties it back to global warming. The video is brief, basic, and clear. It can be used for a quick introduction, but nothing deeper than that....