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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Data Puzzle: Not All Warming is Equal
"Overview: In this lesson students analyze and interpret global temperature and carbon dioxide data to determine which parts of Earth are experiencing the greatest changes in temperature and carbon dioxide, and then cons...
Observations and Models Module
"Overview: This resource from NOAA provides a full unit on observation vs. modeling. It includes a series of 8 activities that use a virtual reality model and graphs to introduce concepts in the construction and applicat...
Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and The Islands
"Overview: This video addresses how climate change is affecting the biomes and ecosystems in the US Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Hawaii and the Caribbean Islands. It also highlights the impacts on infrastructure and define...
Understanding Global Change Interactive
"Overview: This interactive module allows students and educators to build models that explain how the Earth system works. The Click and Learn application can be used to show how Earth is affected by human activities and...
Black Carbon
"Overview: This video describes what black carbon is, where is comes from, and how it contributes to sea ice melt and global warming. Subject: Atmospheric Science Level: Middle School, High School, Career / Technical Ma...
Dead Diatoms Do Tell Tales
"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...
Data Puzzle: Tracing Carbon Through the Arctic Food Web
"Overview: There are two types of Arctic algae (sea ice and ocean), and components of the Arctic food web are reliant on specific types. In this activity, students explore the food web relationships, and the cause and ef...
Pumping Iron: How Dust Can Change the Climate
"Overview: Pumping Iron is a station-based game meant to illustrate the movement of dust throughout different parts of the Earth system and the effects on the climate when iron-rich dust settles into the ocean and stimul...
Be an Energy Star
"Overview: This resource from AK Energy Smart uses background text, a worksheet, and a classroom activity to teach concepts related to calculating energy usage and cost per appliance by region. This resource supports an...
Carbon Dioxide Absorbs Infrared Energy
"Overview: This video concisely describes the way in which the absorption of infrared energy by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere controls the temperature of the planet. Teaching tip: This 1 minute video explains how...