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Can wildlife adapt to climate change? - Erin Eastwood

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

Erin Eastwood
This video focuses on animals that have quickly evolved in order to meet their needs from the impacts of climate change.

Subject: Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Biology, 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: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

ADAPTATION: Invasive Carp of Kentucky

https://vermont.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/asian-carp...

LearningMedia
In this video, an entrepreneur is finding new ways to manage the invasive Asian carp problem in the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Once introduced to help mitigate an algae problem, the carp became ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Economics, Biology, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
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Climate Change and the Carbon Cycle

https://swclimatehub.info/education/climate-change-and-c...

Southwest Climate Hub
This unit introduces high school students to climate change, the carbon cycle, and the effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide on Earth's climate. Students create a model from string, ...

Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Biology:Biogeochemistry, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Greenhouse effect, Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Anthropogenic causes
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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

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

'The Blob' - The Story of the Pacific Heatwave

https://vimeo.com/390626324

Ben M. Collins
This video explores the affect on seabirds of a three year ocean warming event (2013-16) in the NW Pacific. With ocean warming, a massive die off occurred based on the decline of food resources.

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

Oceans and Atmosphere Example

https://cleanet.org/clean/literacy/teach_guidance/oceans...

Cheryl Manning
This unit allows students to investigate past changes in Earth's climate. Students first explore relationships in climate data such as temperature, solar radiation, carbon dioxide, and ...

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

Phenology Example

https://cleanet.org/clean/literacy/teach_guidance/phenol...

Cheryl Manning
This collection of learning activities allows students to explore phenology, phenological changes over time, and how these changes fit into the larger context of climate change. Students explore ...

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

Making Sense of Data - Tree Growth and Climate

https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/climatechangeandfores...

Climate Change and Michigan Forests
In this learning activity, students analyze an actual dataset of the influence of temperature on tree growth. They use mathematical and statistical concepts like slope equations and lines of best fit ...

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

Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xra87liAopM

This video documents the effects of increasing global temperatures on biodiversity (changes in distribution, range, and numbers) and human populations. Adaptations to climate change are also ...

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

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