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
- Anthropogenic causes 52 matches and forcings
- Climate feedbacks 40 matches
- Global change modeling 26 matches including climate projections
- Greenhouse effect 19 matches
- Greenhouse gas emissions 25 matches including types of gases, emissions data, Kyoto-related info
- History and evolution of Earth's climate 1 match
- Impacts of climate change 185 matches including sea level, ecosystems, human, economic, health, political
- Natural causes 25 matches and forcings
- Paleoclimate records 12 matches including types of proxy records and direct measurements
- Public policy 4 matches
- Recent climate data 2 matches direct measurements of past climate and climate data from 1800 to present
Geoscience > Atmospheric Science > Climate Change
283 matches General/OtherResource Type Show all
- Classroom Activity 11 matches
- Lab Activity 17 matches
- Project 6 matches
- Field Activity 4 matches
Activities
291 matches General/OtherResults 1 - 10 of 315 matches
Cloudy vs. Clear part of CLEAN Collection
Students analyze and interpret graphs to compare the flow of shortwave energy from the Sun toward China over the course of a year on cloudy versus clear days.Learn more about this review process.
Resource Type: Activities
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
What's the Bigger Picture? Using the Power of Art to Teach Science part of CLEAN Collection
In this lesson, students combine art and science to interpret and illustrate graphical art. They first learn about artists who develop images based on climate graphs and then create their own.Learn more about this review process.
Resource Type: Activities
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
What is a watershed? part of CLEAN Collection
In this activity students build a model of a watershed to learn where water goes when it rains. Students then make predictions and draw what they observe.Learn more about this review process.
Resource Type: Activities
Examining Sea Level Rise and Differential Shoreline Response part of CLEAN Collection
In this activity, students make and manipulate physical shoreline models to discover the features of resilient shorelines and to critically evaluate the impacts of rising seas. Students will use ...Learn more about this review process.
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity
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