Drought: Identifying Impacts and Evaluating Solutions Lesson Plan

Through this set of lessons, students learn about the impacts of water shortages due to drought, make connections to climate patterns, and explore community resiliency solutions. The lessons engage ...

The Colorado River: Lifeblood for the American Southwest

For more than 100 years the Colorado River's water has been split between seven states, Native American tribes and Mexico thanks to a compact that experts say was written using outdated data. ...

Unrelenting Drought on the Colorado River

The Colorado River is a critical resource for the western U.S. But a megadrought that began around the year 2000 and exacerbated by climate change is jeopardizing the river's future and ...

NOAA Temperature and Precipitation Tools

This activity provides information on how to access and use a wealth of data and tools from NOAA to analyze climate through time. A video tutorial and background information are provided and show ...

Sounding Climate in the Classroom

This interactive simulation from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research: Center for Science Education uses sonification of data to represent changes in precipitation, temperature, and ...

Adapting a Garden to Heavy Rain

This activity focuses on adapting to climate change and building resilience to heavy rainfalls in the context of a garden. Students devise, create, and test ideas for protecting a garden from heavy ...

Storm Narratives

In this activity, students evaluate climate change narratives for content and story-telling qualities before creating their own narrative on a severe weather event.

Georgia's peach crop devastated by warm winter conditions

An unusually warm winter damaged Georgia's peach crop in 2023. As climate change continues, researchers are working to develop a peach that will be more resilient to warmer weather.

Lake County Cascading Hazards Unit

The unit gives a brief introduction to several natural hazards that impact communities in California; drought, flooding, earthquakes, landslides, and wildfire, and connects the hazards by introducing ...

Introduction to Climate Resilience: Elementary School

This lesson introduces students to climate resilience by emphasizing that everyone has a role to play in helping others during weather emergencies. The lesson starts by activating students’ ...

Drought is devastating crops in the Midwest

In 2023, much of the US Midwest was abnormally dry, according to official drought monitor figures. In this video farmers describe how they are feeling about the adverse effects of climate change.

Climate Change and Agriculture | The Resilient Ones

This video examines the effects of climate change on agriculture in New York. As temperatures rise and extreme weather patterns increase the risk of flooding and drought conditions, experts turn ...

Critical infrastructure is vulnerable to climate change—and it's not just coastal cities at risk

Taking into account rising sea levels and severe weather events, a non-profit research group assessed the flood danger to infrastructure in the US over the next thirty years.

Fired Up Over Math: Studying Wildfires from Space

Students learn how scientists assess wildfires using remote sensing, then use some of the same techniques to solve grade-level appropriate math problems.

Educator Guide Lab 4 - Sharing a River: The Colorado River Story

Students take a journey to the Colorado River Basin near Lees Ferry. They explore aspects of the Colorado River Basin using a variety of resources, interactive maps, and tools such as Google Maps. ...

Project Resilience: Case Studies of Coastal Change

Students use primary resources to investigate three case studies of environmental change, including how the combined effects of sea level rise and sinking land are projected to impact the Louisiana ...

Climate Emergency Feedback Loops Atmosphere Video

This video describes the influence of global warming on the water vapor feedback loop and weather pattern frequency/intensity by using expert scientists and graphical illustrations.

Project Resilience: Resilience in Action

In this activity, students explore resilience toolkits to better understand their value. Students then draw upon these toolkits to design a resilience plan for their school campus as the culminating ...

Extreme Heat

This 3-minute video from PBS Wisconsin describes the socioeconomic vulnerability of elderly and impoverished populations during Wisconsin's heatwaves. A short summary provides more details about ...

What Makes Cities So Hot?

This short video introduces the concept of the urban heat island effect.