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 pressure 4 matches
- Air quality 68 matches
- Atmospheric circulation 11 matches
- Atmospheric structure and composition 71 matches including ozone layer
- Clouds and precipitation 5 matches including humidity, fog and other moisture
- Energy, heat and temperature 6 matches
- Extreme weather 165 matches hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, weather hazards
- Forecasting 11 matches and modeling
- Measurements 18 matches including direct and indirect measurements of atmospheric conditions and precipitation
- Seasonal patterns 1 match
- Solar and terrestrial radiation 3 matches
- Winds 4 matches
Geoscience > Atmospheric Science > Meteorology
3 matches General/OtherResource Type
- Activities 97 matches
- Course Information 7 matches
- Course Module 1 match set of activities taking one or more class periods, like a unit
- Datasets and Tools 40 matches
- Audio/Visual 101 matches
- Computer Applications 2 matches
- Pedagogic Resources 5 matches
- Scientific Resources 100 matches
- Policy Resources 7 matches
Results 1 - 10 of 324 matches
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
El Niño 101 part of CLEAN Collection
This video explains what El Niño is and provides the definition of El Niño. It goes into detail about the devastating terrestrial and aquatic effects El Niño can have on living organisms and the ...Learn more about this review process.
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video
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
Flow: Currents and Climate part of CLEAN Collection
This video introduces viewers to oceanic thermohaline circulation - the system of global ocean currents that cycle warm and cold water across the planet.Learn more about this review process.
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video
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
Extreme Heat and Community Health part of CLEAN Collection
This short video clip is part of a longer video series titled How Climate Effects Community Health. This clip focuses on human health risks from extreme heat events caused by increasing global ...Learn more about this review process.
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video
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
Precipitation Extremes and Community Health part of CLEAN Collection
This short video explains how climate change can lead to more extreme precipitation events and more frequent flooding. Information from the CDC has succinct information about the health downsides of ...Learn more about this review process.
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video