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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PPM: The Impact of Trace Elements in the Environment
"Overview: This resource from the Paleontological Research Institute includes a worksheet, videos, and hands on experiments to demonstrate how absorption, reflection, and transmission of light relates to the amount of ca...
Major Storms and Community Resilience
"Overview: This is Unit 1 of a larger module and centers on the fundamental concepts of major storms and community resilience. In this unit, students acquire a vocabulary related to storm systems and risk, engage in prac...
PETM: Unearthing Ancient Climate Change
"Overview: In this video, a team of paleontologists, paleobotanists, soil scientists, and other researchers take to the field in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin to document how the climate, plants, and animals there changed duri...
Our Shared Climate Future
"Overview: This peer-reviewed educational video explains human-caused climate change including the greenhouse effect. The role that greenhouse gases play in absorbing and re-emitting longwave radiation is illustrated. In...
MONASH Simple Climate Model
"Overview: This climate model simulates the Earth's climate system by allowing users to toggle different influences on climate (e.g. oceans, atmospheric gases) based on model version used. Subject: Environmental Science...
Our Hungry Planet: Design Thinking Challenge
"Overview: This activity is the last part in a series called 'Our Hungry Planet.' Students will use their understanding of food systems to choose a topic related to food system issues at different scales (classroom, scho...
Our Coast, Our Future Interactive Sea Level Map
"Overview: Our Coast, Our Future (OCOF) is a collaborative, user-driven project focused on providing coastal California resource managers and land use planners locally relevant, online maps and tools to help understand,...
MIT's Greenhouse Gas Simulator
"Overview: One of a suite of online climate interactive simulations, this Greenhouse Gas Simulator uses the bathtub model to demonstrate how atmospheric concentrations of CO2 will continue to rise unless they are lowered...
Our Changing Atmosphere
"Overview: Here students use data from the NOAA carbon dioxide monitoring sites, such as Mauna Loa, to graph the Keeling Curve for themselves on large sheets of paper. Each group graphs one year, and the graphs are joine...
Our Acidifying Ocean
"Overview: This 3-part interactive and virtual lab activity examines the life cycle of the sea urchin, and how the increasing acidity of the ocean affects their larval development. Subject: Environmental Science, Enviro...
On the Rise
"Overview: In this 60-minute interactive demonstration, students use ice blocks and heat lamps to model what will happen to coastlines around the world as glaciers melt. They explore why glaciers are melting as a consequ...
Losing Permafrost in Alaska
"Overview: This video and accompanying essay review the impacts of rising surface air temperatures and thawing permafrost on ecosystems, geology, and native populations in Alaska. Subject: Environmental Science, Environ...
Ojibwe Lifeway: Wild Rice Harvesting
"Overview: This website focuses on Ojibwe wild rice harvesting (manoomin). It is a celebration of the historical practice of wild rice harvesting, why it is so important to Ojibwe life, and how climate change can impact...
Liz Hadly Tracks the Impact of Climate Change in Yellowstone
"Overview: This video highlights specific climate change-related phenomena that are threatening the flora and fauna of Yellowstone National Park. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Biology, Ecology,...
Ojibwe Lifeway: Maple Sugaring and Birchbark Harvesting
"Overview: In this resource, students will investigate impacts of a warming climate on sugar maple and paper birch, two trees of special importance to the Lake Superior Ojibwe. Making maple sugar and harvesting birch bar...
Ojibwe Lifeway: Fishing
"Overview: In this activity, students will investigate impacts of a warming climate on cold and cool water fish species in Wisconsin. They will also explore how fishing is an important source of food and cultural practic...
Oil Spill Cleanup
"Overview: This hands-on activity will provide students with an understanding of the issues that surround environmental clean-up. Students will create their own oil spill, try different methods for cleaning it up, and th...
Oceans of Energy
"Overview: This lesson focuses on the importance of ocean exploration as a way to learn how to capture, control, and distribute renewable ocean energy resources. Students begin by identifying ways the ocean can generate...
Oceans and Atmosphere Example
"Overview: This unit allows students to investigate past changes in Earth's climate. Students first explore relationships in climate data such as temperature, solar radiation, carbon dioxide, and biodiversity. They then...
The Ocean's Green Machines
"Overview: This video introduces phytoplankton - the base of the marine food web, the source of half of the oxygen on Earth, and an important remover of CO2 from the atmosphere. The video also explains how satellites are...