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Wildfire Risk and Impact

https://learn.concord.org/geo-wildfire
The Concord Consortium
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 ...
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Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather
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El Niño 101

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6s0T0m3F8s&list=PLivjPD...
National Geographic
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 ...
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Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Oceanography, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Natural causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :El Nino/La Nina, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Natural causes, Impacts of climate change
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

Flow: Currents and Climate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgoANl_97kM
Science On a Sphere
This video introduces viewers to oceanic thermohaline circulation - the system of global ocean currents that cycle warm and cold water across the planet.
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Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography, Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Natural causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Atmospheric and oceanic circulation, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :El Nino/La Nina, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change:Natural causes
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

Hurricane Resilience Part 1: Hurricanes Affect Us

https://scied.ucar.edu/hurricane-resilience-part1
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Center for Science Education
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 ...
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Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
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Major Storms and Community Resilience

https://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/teaching_materials/s...
Lisa Doner, Lorraine Motola, Patricia Stapleton
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, ...
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Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather
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Extreme Heat and Community Health

https://www.cdc.gov/video/climate-health/cdc-ExtremeHeat...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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 ...
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Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

Drought: Identifying Impacts and Evaluating Solutions

https://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/kend19-sci-ess-dro...
PBS
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 ...
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Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Global change modeling, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Global change modeling
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Precipitation Extremes and Community Health

https://www.cdc.gov/video/climate-health/CDC-StormsAndFl...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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 ...
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Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

Your Own El Nino

https://aambpublicoceanservice.blob.core.windows.net/oce...
This activity allows students to make El Nino in a container, but it might work better as a teacher demonstration. The introduction and information provided describe El Nino, its processes and its ...
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Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change:Natural causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :El Nino/La Nina, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Oceanography, Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Natural causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
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I Live in the Midwest and Northern Great Plains - Does Climate Change Matter to Me?

https://www.pbs.org/video/climate-change-in-the-midwest-...
Katharine Hayhoe
This video features Katharine Hayhoe presenting a lively discussion of impacts that the Midwestern US is experiencing due to climate change. It steps through evidence for how climate change is ...
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Subject: Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Water Quality and Quantity, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Policy:Environmental Economics, Biology, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change, Climatology :Regional climates, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Soils, Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video