Carbon Cycle Role Play

California Academy of Sciences
Carbon cycle activity to demonstrate how carbon moves throughout the atmosphere. The activity ends with a discussion of how humans impact the carbon cycle.

Did You Feel It?
Jennifer Pickering
Did you have an earthquake where you live and want to participate in Community Science? Would you like students to better understand how earthquake intensity is determined? This guide provides ideas about how you can incorporate the online USGS tool: Did You Feel It? into your classroom.

Climate Change and the Water Cycle

Stephanie Haan Amato
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, ...

Re-representing a Climate Change Story

Yale Climate Connections
Students listen to radio broadcasts about climate change causes, impacts, and solutions and learn how this creates a framework for effective scientific communication.

Hurricane Katrina

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

Investigating Deforestation Through An Earth Systems View Using Landsat

My NASA Data
This activity has students use an Earth Systems perspective to identify the various causes associated with changes to Earth's forests as they review Landsat imagery of site locations from around ...

Land Ice/Sea Ice/Grounded Ice: How does melting ice affect sea level?

Louise Huffman
Students create a model of sea level rise based on the melting of land ice, sea ice, or grounded ice. Student predictions are recorded and models are run. Making explanations based on data, cause and ...

Garden Lesson Plan: Living Systems

Nature Lab
Many elements are interconnected and function together to create the natural and productive living system that is your garden. The purpose of this activity guide is to teach students the ecological ...

Shine - Mini climate change musical

Beth Osnes, Shira Dickler
This learning activity is a climate change musical for K-12, youth groups or faith organizations. Shine weaves together climate science and performance art into a fun and powerful story, which spans ...

Melting ice cubes
Mirjam Glessmer, University of Bergen
Explore how melting of ice cubes floating in water is influenced by the salinity of the water. Important oceanographic concepts like density and density driven currents are visualized and can be discussed on the ...