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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Responding to Climate Change
"Overview: This is the ninth and final lesson in a series of lessons about climate change. This lesson focuses on the various activities that humans can do to mitigate the effects of climate change. This includes informa...
Resource Watch
"Overview: Resource Watch features hundreds of data sets all in one place on the state of the planet's resources and citizens. Users can visualize challenges facing people and the planet, from climate change to poverty,...
Re-representing a Climate Change Story
"Overview: Students listen to radio broadcasts about climate change causes, impacts, and solutions and learn how this creates a framework for effective scientific communication. Subject: Environmental Science, Environme...
Renewables Roundup - Earth: The Operators' Manual
"Overview: This video segment explores whether, in principle, renewable energy resources could meet today's global energy needs of about 15.7 terawatts. Subject: Physical Science Level: Middle School, High School, Commu...
Renewable Energy is Way too Expensive, Right?
"Overview: This video explores the myth that developing or emerging countries/cities (Africa, Mexico, Dubai, Peru) must be dependent on coal, oil or gas because of their poor economies and not on clean, renewable energy...
Renewable Energy: Solar
"Overview: In this eight-lesson unit, students explore cultural connections with the sun, learn about light and discover how light interacts with other materials through hands-on activities, literacy integration, and eng...
Renewable Energy Living Lab: The Bright Idea
"Overview: In this activity, students play the role of energy consultants to a CEO, assessing and documenting the feasibility, cost, and environmental impact of installing solar power on 4 company facilities with the sam...
Renewable Energy Living Lab: Smart Solar
"Overview: In this activity, students work through the process of evaluating the feasibility of photovoltaic solar power in 4 different US cities. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level: Middle School, H...
Renewable Energy Living Lab: Exploring Regional and Local Resources
"Overview: In this activity, students become familiar with the online Renewable Energy Living Lab interface and access its real-world solar energy data to evaluate the potential for solar generation in various U.S. locat...
Renewable Energy Living Lab: Energy Priorities
"Overview: In this activity, students explore real data about renewable energy potential in their state using a mapping tool developed by NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) to investigate the best locations for...
Renewable Energy 101
"Overview: This is a National Geographic video that defines renewable energy and discusses the benefits and drawbacks of different examples. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Science Level:...
Renew-a-Bead Game
"Overview: Students work in pairs to pick black and white beads out of a bag to represent the percent of renewable and nonrenewable resources used in different countries, and then graph the information. Subject: Environ...
Regulating Greenhouse Gases
"Overview: This video highlights the work of climate scientists in the Amazon who research the relationship between deforestation, construction of new dams, and increased amounts of greenhouse gases being exchanged betwe...
Regenerative Agriculture Student Design Challenge
"Overview: This sustainable agriculture lesson utilizes research from the students and has them teach the class their specific technique, and then allows for creativity in solving a problem they see in a specific locatio...
Reflecting on What is Happening to Greenland's Ice
"Overview: In this activity, students consider Greenland reflectivity changes from 2000 to 2012 and what albedo anomalies may indicate about how the Greenland ice sheet is changing in a case study format. Subject: Envir...
Redford Center Stories
"Overview: Redford Center Stories is an environmental storytelling initiative for students in grades 5th-12th, designed to empower youth as changemakers to impact environmental justice, restoration, and regeneration thro...
Recipe for a Region
"Overview: Students consider the ways their climate affects their region, by identifying a type of food unique to the region and selecting (and possibly cooking) a recipe that features that ingredient. Optional activitie...
The Rebuilders-Rebuild by Design
"Overview: This video is about the Rebuild by Design competition offered to address the structural and social vulnerabilities exposed by Superstorm Sandy. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical...
The Reason for the Seasons: How the Earth and Sun Interact to Create Seasons
"Overview: This is an excellent interactive simulation of the earth moving around the sun. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Science, Physics Level: Upper Primary, Middle School, High Schoo...
Reason for the Seasons
"Overview: This activity engages learners to investigate the impact of Earth's tilt and the angle of solar insolation as the reason for seasons by doing a series of hands-on activities that include scale models. Students...