How Different Generations Talk About Climate Change

This video explores questions such as: What's changed since the early days of the environmental movement? How are the stakes different today? What's the best way to speak up about climate ...

Rain Gauge Activity

In this hands-on inquiry-based activity, students face an engineering challenge based on real-world applications. They are tasked with developing a tool they can use to measure the amount of rain ...

The Water Cycle

This activity was developed to give participants an understanding of Earth's water cycle by completing a WebQuest and building a model of the water cycle.

Exploring the Water Cycle

In this lesson, students will learn about the water cycle and how energy from the sun and the force of gravity drive this cycle.

Elementary GLOBE Soils Module

Becca Hatheway, Kerry Zarlengo, Lisa Gardiner, Sandra Henderson, Lynne Hehr
Learning activities help students explore and describe soil, consider what is found in soil such as rocks, roots, critters, and organic material, and explain the importance of soil to plants and ...

Elementary GLOBE Water Module

Becca Hatheway, Kerry Zarlengo, Lisa Gardiner, Sandra Henderson
Students learn about the water cycle and hydrology through a series of three lessons, two coloring book pages, and an e-Book. The themes covered in this resource tie into Climate Science and ...

Elementary GLOBE Clouds Module

Becca Hatheway, Kerry Zarlengo, Peggy LeMone, Lisa Gardiner, Gary Ludwig, Lin Chambers, Debra Krumm, Jessica Taylor, Sandra Henderson
A suite of hands-on activities to give students the opportunity to describe the shape and appearance of clouds and learn the types of weather that are associated with clouds. The module includes ...

Solar Convection

Lawrence Hall of Science
In this activity, students will use hot and cold water to see how fluids at different temperatures move around in convection currents.

What is a watershed?

Izaak Walton League
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.

Elementary GLOBE Earth Systems Module

Becca Hatheway, Kerry Zarlengo, Lisa Gardiner
Several activities that introduce students to the concepts of earth as a series of systems that are all connected. All of the activities reinforce the idea that water, air, soil, and living things ...