Additional Resources
This is a collection of useful web sites for teaching climate change. If you know of web sites, journal articles or other references that are useful for teaching and learning about climate issues or global warming, let us know about them.
Subject: Atmospheric Science Show all
- Air quality 9 matches
- Atmospheric circulation 5 matches
- Atmospheric structure and composition 33 matches including ozone layer
- Clouds and precipitation 2 matches including humidity, fog and other moisture
- Extreme weather 53 matches hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, weather hazards
- Measurements 1 match including direct and indirect measurements of atmospheric conditions and precipitation
Geoscience > Atmospheric Science > Meteorology
1 match General/OtherResource Type Show all
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Elementary GLOBE Air Quality Module part of CLEAN Collection
This resource is designed as a module with a storybook or web story, and four activities. In the storybook, the GLOBE Kids investigate colors in the sky and learn how air pollution affects sky color ...Learn more about this review process.
Resource Type: Activities
Wildfire Risk and Impact part of CLEAN Collection
This highly engaging course is comprised of five modules. Each one clearly explains the concept using readings and videos. Students are presented with the current fire and climate data and then run ...Learn more about this review process.
Resource Type: Activities
What makes a gas, a greenhouse gas? part of CLEAN Collection
Students act out 4 different molecules (nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and water vapor) to discover which ones are greenhouse gases and which ones are not.Learn more about this review process.
Resource Type: Activities, Lab Activity
Hurricane Resilience Part 1: Hurricanes Affect Us part of CLEAN Collection
In this activity, students learn how people prepared for and then responded to a hurricane by analyzing news headlines about Hurricane Florence (2018). Then they analyze data about the amount of ...Learn more about this review process.
Resource Type: Activities
Major Storms and Community Resilience part of CLEAN Collection
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, ...Learn more about this review process.
Resource Type: Activities
Drought: Identifying Impacts and Evaluating Solutions part of CLEAN Collection
In this set of activities, students learn about impacts of drought through news videos of communities facing serious water shortages, analyze drought data and models, and research and evaluate ...Learn more about this review process.
Resource Type: Activities
Sustainability Metrics part of CLEAN Collection
Sustainability is a complex term applied to many different contexts in a variety of ways. As a result, it can be challenging to determine how sustainable something really is. In this module, students ...Learn more about this review process.
Resource Type: Activities
Our Changing Atmosphere part of CLEAN Collection
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 ...Learn more about this review process.
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity
Your Own El Nino part of CLEAN Collection
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 ...Learn more about this review process.
Resource Type: Activities
HEART Force - A Changing Climate: Understanding Wildfire in Colorado part of CLEAN Collection
In this lesson, students investigate wildfires in Colorado by analyzing wildfire data and information to create a local news story that educates community members about wildfire risk. In Part 1, ...Learn more about this review process.
Resource Type: Activities