HEART Force Drought Game

In this interactive game, students will solve the challenges that their community faces during the course of an extreme drought event by using available individual and community resources. Students ...

HEART Force Colorado Flood - Middle School

In this hazard lesson, students will build understanding of flooding in Colorado through exploring case studies, authentic data, and online resources. After completing this lesson, students will be ...

HEART Force Colorado Flood - High School

Floods have destroyed peoples' homes and taken their lives throughout history. Flooding is the most common and costly natural hazard, with an average cost of $1.9 billion dollars annually in ...

HEART Force Flood Game

In this interactive game, students will solve the challenges that their community faces during the course of an extreme flooding event by using available individual and community resources. Students ...

HEART Force Colorado Wildfire - High School

Wildfires are occurring more frequently in the western US. These wildfires are also increasing in size and severity, leading to a phenomenon called megafires. While people cannot predict when or ...

HEART Force Colorado Drought - Middle School

In this lesson, students will build understanding of drought in Colorado through exploring case studies, authentic data, and online resources. After completing this lesson, students will be able to ...

HEART Force Colorado Drought - High School

Humans have been affected by severe drought throughout history, which in some cases has led to the collapse of civilizations. While technology has increased our ability to deal with drought, it ...

HEART Force Wildfire Game

In this interactive game, students will solve the challenges that their community faces during the course of a wildfire event by using available individual and community resources. Students work in ...

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. ...

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.

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 ...

Hurricane Katrina

In this problem-based learning module, students research and report on Hurricane Katrina, using an earth systems science analysis approach.

Extreme Heat and Community Health

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 ...

Precipitation Extremes and Community Health

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 ...

Climate Time Machine

This series of visualizations shows how some of Earth's key climate indicators are changing over time: Arctic Ice, Sea Level, Carbon Dioxide, and Global Temperature.

Drought: Identifying Impacts and Evaluating Solutions

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 ...

Major Storms and Community Resilience

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, ...

NCA4 Wildfire Figure

This is a graphic on how climate change has impacted wildfire rates.

Drought Basics

This PBS Learning Media activity addresses drought basics, including its causes and impacts and ways to assess it, by using media from NOAA and NASA. It defines the types of drought, the impacts, ...

Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

In this short video, learn about actions that humans can take to mitigate climate change and adapt to its impacts. Use this resource to stimulate thinking and questions about climate change and to ...