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https://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/buac17-k2-sci-ess-...

This is an interactive video in which students navigate around a virtual island while learning about the characteristics of land formations and bodies of water.

Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Resource Type: Activities

Investigating Deforestation Through An Earth Systems View Using Landsat

https://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/lesson-plans/investigat...

My NASA Data
This activity has students use an Earth Systems perspective to identify the various causes associated with changes to Earth's forests as they review Landsat imagery of site locations from around ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Ecosystems, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Environmental Science:Forest Resources:Deforestation, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Biology
Resource Type: Activities

Climate Change and Risks of New Pandemics

https://tropicsu.org/lesson-plan-risks-of-new-pandemics/

TROP ICSU
Through this lesson plan your students will learn that human induced climate change causes biodiversity disturbances and could be responsible for the increased risk of animal virus spillover into ...

Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
Resource Type: Activities

Harnessing Nuclear Energy

https://www.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/KEEP/Documents/Activities/Ha...

Keep Program
This activity teaches students how energy is obtained from nuclear fission and how it is used to produce electricity in a nuclear power plant. It also teaches students how some of the electricity ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Energy, Energy:Nuclear Energy
Resource Type: Activities

Flubber Flow

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/ice/activitie...

Flubber Flow is a 30-minute activity in which teams of four to five children experiment with Flubber and investigate how a solid can flow! They predict and model the properties of glaciers, view ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
Resource Type: Activities

Interpreting Earth's Climate Record - Decoding the Weather Machine

https://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nvdtwm-sci-climate...

NOVA
Learn how scientists have pieced together a continuous 800,000-year record of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and ocean temperatures in these videos from NOVA: Decoding the Weather Machine. Use ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Paleoclimate records, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

Puzzling Wisconsin's Biological Communities

https://www.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/KEEP/Documents/Activities/Pu...

Keep Program
This is an in-depth activity that focuses on Wisconsin ecosystem characteristics and energy flow within ecosystems. The activity is lengthy, but selected parts of it could be adapted to a variety of ...

Subject: Biology, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
Resource Type: Activities

GEF - Bhutan: Silent Tsunami

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BexXgQakves

This video shows the people of Bhutan working to prevent flooding from an outburst of a glacial lake in the country's Lunana region.

Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

Potentially Kinetic

https://www.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/KEEP/Documents/Activities/Po...

Keep Program
This activity supports sense-making around kinetic and potential energy through a series of demonstrations.

Subject: Environmental Science:Energy
Resource Type: Activities

Wildfire Simulation

https://wildfire.concord.org/

This is a wildfire simulation with three different zones (plains, mountains, and foothills). The user can change variables to see what happens when they spark a fire.

Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change