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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Youth Climate Story: Climate Anxiety in Michigan
"Overview: This video focuses on climate mental health. In it, a woman experiencing challenges related to climate change tells her story, including what it means to navigate her feelings in the context of her community....
Solar Influence: Climate Change
"Overview: This short video, the sixth in the National Academies Climate Change, Lines of Evidence series, explores the hypothesis that changes in solar energy output may be responsible for observed global surface temper...
Water, Water, Everywhere
"Overview: This classroom demonstration illustrates the amount of water stored in various parts of the Earth system in a straightforward manner. Students estimate the proportions of water in the oceans, icecaps and glaci...
Your Warming World
"Overview: This interactive lets students determine the extent of average temperature change both in their community and anywhere else in the world, relative to average temperatures for the three decades between 1951 and...
Water, Water Everywhere
"Overview: This is a short NASA video on the water cycle. The video shows the importance of the water cycle to nearly every natural process on Earth and illustrates how tightly coupled the water cycle is to climate. Sub...
Your Place in Focus | Adaptation
"Overview: This lesson guides students to connect the PBS Adaptation video series on climate adaptation to their own community. Students describe their community, identify climate impacts faced by their community, resear...
Water Use in the U.S.
"Overview: An interactive data visualization map of the USGS data of water usage from 2015 of the USA and US territories. Subject: Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Physical Science, Economics Level: Middle...
Solar House
"Overview: This video segment from 'What's Up in the Environment,' shares how an entire home can be constructed using green energy sources (solar and geothermal energy). Video is narrated by young boy whose father is the...
Your Own El Nino
"Overview: This activity allows students to make El Nino in a container, but it might work better as a teacher demonstration. The introduction and information provided describe El Nino, its processes and its effects on w...
The Water Cycle: Now You See It, Now You Don't
"Overview: This lesson is an instructor demonstration that focuses specifically on two aspects of the water cycle: evaporation and condensation. This is a well described instructor led demonstration for introducing and e...
The (Young) People's Climate Conference
"Overview: This resource is based on the 2015 Climate Change Summit, and it shares both environmental and social concerns related to climate change. This is an activity for elementary school students to role-play. It is...
Solar House
"Overview: In this activity, students assume the role of a team of architects that has been commissioned to build a solar house containing both active and passive solar components. First, they must design the house and t...
Solar Energy
"Overview: This activity comes at the beginning of a sequence of activities in an energy module. Students observe the transfer of solar energy to different appliances with a solar cell and then they investigate the effec...
The Water Cycle
"Overview: This visualization, from the US Geological Survey, provides a simple schematic of the various pathways that water can take as it cycles through ocean, lakes, atmosphere, surface and ground. Subject: Environme...
Yale Climate Opinion Maps - U.S. 2016
"Overview: This visualization focuses on public acceptance of climate science. The set of interactive maps illustrates public opinion on a variety of climate beliefs, risk perceptions, and policy support. The data is fro...
Solar Convection
"Overview: In this activity, students will use hot and cold water to see how fluids at different temperatures move around in convection currents. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science, Atmospheric Science, Oc...
World of Change: Amazon Deforestation
"Overview: This is a series of NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite images taken over a 10 year period, 2000-2010, showing the extent of deforestation in the State of Rondonia in western B...
Soil Quest
"Overview: In this interactive, students learn all about soil and how to conserve it. Students are walked through a series of questions and scenarios to help them learn about the connection to the carbon cycle and climat...
The Water Cycle
"Overview: This activity was developed to give participants an understanding of Earth's water cycle by completing a WebQuest and building a model of the water cycle. Subject: Environmental Studies, Physical Science, Hyd...
World Climate: Climate Change Negotiations Game
"Overview: This simulation provides scenarios for exploring the principles of climate dynamics from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Interconnections among climate issues, public stakeholders, and the governance spheres...