Quantifying The Drivers and Impacts of Natural Disturbance Events – The 2013 Colorado Floods

Several factors contributed to the extreme flooding that occurred in Boulder, Colorado in 2013. In this data activity, students explore and visualize the data for stream discharge data collected by ...

Eco-Health Relationship Browser

This highly informative site explores five different ecosystems and the public health issues that have arisen in each. Students can explore the different ways that ecosystem services impact health ...

Climate Change and the Water Cycle

This unit consists of seven distinct activities that teach climate change, the water cycle, and the effects of the changing climate on water resources through the use of games, science experiments, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unrelenting drought leaves millions who rely on Colorado River facing an uncertain future

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

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split between seven states, Native American tribes and Mexico thanks to a compact that experts say was written using outdated data. ...

Does Climate Change Cause Extreme Weather?

This video provides a good introduction to the field of attribution science. Beginning with an introduction to weather and climate, it describes how severe weather might be linked to climate change ...

Is Climate Change Just a Lot of Hot Air?

This short video illustrates how warming ocean temperature is a major factor in climate change, particularly the increase in severity of extreme weather (notably storms and drought).

Climate Change, After the Storm

This 3-activity sequence addresses the question: 'To what extent should coastal communities build or rebuild?' The activity uses social science and geoscience data to prepare an ...

Drought Data and Projections

This resource includes 3 videos that are animations of drought data. The first is an animation of the US Drought Monitor drought index snapshots from 2010-2018. The second is an animation of global ...

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 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.

NCA4 Wildfire Figure

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

Fluid Earth Viewer

This interactive online visualization allows the user to view a variety of weather patterns including temperature, wind, and wave action over time.

Drought Affects California's Water Availability

In this resource, students learn about changes in water availability due to drought in California from 2013 to 2017. This resource provides opportunities for students to interpret data and analyze ...

Teach About Climate Change With These 24 New York Times Graphs

This resource is a collection of climate change-related graphs for teachers to use in their classrooms, with links to the source articles and an explanation of how to guide students through ...

Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation

This interactive resource allows users to investigate current and predicted future climate-related hazards on a nationwide scale and in specific locations.

Probable Futures Map

This interactive map allows students to explore current and future projections across a global and regional scale for different variables such as temperature and precipitation.