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.

Climate Change in Your Own Backyard

In this lesson set, students begin unpacking the complex aspects of climate change by analyzing the global impacts of extreme weather events. After that, they narrow their focus through various ...

Data Puzzle: Megadrought in the Colorado River Basin

Through this resource from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), students will define, investigate, and answer questions about what caused the megadrought in the ...

Data Puzzle: Megafire - Rare Occurrences or the New Normal?

This resource uses datasets, videos, text, and discussions to support an understanding of patterns in megafires under climate change conditions. This resource provides an excellent scientific ...

The Heat is On: Cause and Effect and Climate

This lesson focuses on causation vs. correlation for temperature rise and includes videos, worksheets, and classroom discussions for exploration. Students pretend to live in Solutionville, where town ...