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HEART Force Flood Response Game
In this interactive game, students solve the challenges that their community faces during the course of an extreme flooding event by using available individual and community resources. Students work ...Learn more about this review process.
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Rising Tides: Protect Your Home from the Waves
Warming oceans and melting landlocked ice caused by global climate change may result in rising sea levels. This rise in sea level combined with increased intensity and frequency of storms will ...Learn more about this review process.
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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.Learn more about this review process.
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. ...Learn more about this review process.
HEART Force - A Changing Climate: Understanding Drought in Colorado
In this lesson, students build an understanding of drought in Colorado through exploring case studies, authentic data, and online resources. After completing this lesson, students will be able to ...Learn more about this review process.
HEART Force - A Changing Climate: Understanding Floods in Colorado
In this hazard lesson, students build an understanding of flooding in Colorado by exploring case studies, authentic data, and online resources. After completing this lesson, students will be able to ...Learn more about this review process.
HEART Force - Adapting to Extremes: Exploring the Science of Floods in Colorado
In this lesson, students analyze and synthesize data, and design local flood preparation strategies to answer the question, "What can we learn from past flood ...Learn more about this review process.
HEART Force - Adapting to Extremes: Exploring the Science of Wildfire in Colorado
In this lesson, students analyze and synthesize data, and design local wildfire preparation strategies to answer the question "What can we learn from past wildfires to prepare for ...Learn more about this review process.
Assess burn scars with satellite imagery
Using Landsat 8 imagery from before and after the 2015 wildfire season in Glacier National Park, Montana, learners calculate the damage using a Normalized Burn Index, digitize the burn area, and ...Learn more about this review process.
Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and The Islands
This video addresses how climate change is affecting the biomes and ecosystems in the US Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Hawaii and the Caribbean Islands. It also highlights the impacts on infrastructure ...Learn more about this review process.
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HEART Force - Adapting to Extremes: Exploring the Science of Drought in Colorado
In this lesson, students analyze and synthesize data about how drought is measured, how scientists expect drought to change in the future, and how we can mitigate the impacts of drought in our ...Learn more about this review process.
Assessing Drought in the United States
This easy-to-understand video animation describes drought and explains the different categories of drought used by the drought monitor. It discusses the effects of and contributions to drought, what ...Learn more about this review process.
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I Live in the Eastern US - Does Climate Change Matter to Me? | Global Weirding
This video discusses impacts that the Eastern US is experiencing due to climate change. It describes the seasonal shifts that may affect tourism in New England, extreme heat in the Southeast, how ...Learn more about this review process.
Southern Great Plains and Southwest | Global Weirding
This video discusses impacts that the Midwestern US is experiencing due to climate change. It describes how climate change is affecting agriculture, tourism, drought and flood, water cycles and ...Learn more about this review process.
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 ...Learn more about this review process.