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https://www.globe.gov/web/elementary-globe/overview/clouds

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 ...

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

The Social Cost of Carbon

https://climatenow.com/video/social-cost-of-carbon/

Climate Now
With the help of two climate experts, this video discusses how the social cost of carbon is calculated, how it should (perhaps) be calculated, and why the effort to quantify this value is necessary ...

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

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 ...

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
Resource Type: Activities

Renewable Energy 101

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kUE0BZtTRc&list=PLivjPD...

National Geographic
This is a National Geographic video that defines renewable energy and discusses the benefits and drawbacks of different examples.

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

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 ...

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
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What makes a gas, a greenhouse gas?

https://www.lsop.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/...

Little Shop of Physics
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.

Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Meteorology:Atmospheric structure and composition, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Greenhouse effect, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes
Resource Type: Activities, Lab Activity

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.

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

Solar Convection

https://www.sciencefriday.com/educational-resources/sola...

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.

Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Atmospheric and oceanic circulation, Solar radiation
Resource Type: Activities

What's the Bigger Picture? Using the Power of Art to Teach Science

https://www.shapeoflife.org/lesson-plan/sol/whats-bigger...

Shape of Life
In this lesson, students combine art and science to interpret and illustrate graphical art. They first learn about artists who develop images based on climate graphs and then create their own.

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

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 ...

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
Resource Type: Activities

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