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This page allows searching across the SERC catalogs: the set of resources from the web and in print that have been selected as relevant by SERC-supported projects. The catalog draws from collections created directly by our partners as well as those harvested from other digital library collections.



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Through Tribal Eyes: Change on the Menominee Nation part of CLEAN Collection

In this video, members of the Menominee nation discuss their experiences with climate change.
Subject: Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Habitats, Restoration/Reclamation, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Ecosystems:Habitats:Invasive species, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Biodiversity, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Ecosystems:Ecology, Environmental Science, American Studies, Biology:Plant Biology, Environmental Science:Forest Resources:Deforestation, Environmental Science:Forest Resources, Air Quality:Acid Rain, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Anthropology, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water , Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Recent climate data, Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water supply/water resource evaluation, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Recent climate data, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water quality/chemistry , Biology:Ecology:Abiotic Relations, Biology:Ecology, Ecology:Habitats, Habitats:Freshwater, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Air quality, Air quality:Acid Rain, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Orbital patterns, Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, History and evolution of Earth's climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Hydrologic cycle, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Air Quality, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:History and evolution of Earth's climate, Environmental Science:Sustainability
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Audio/Visual:Animations/Video, Activities:Classroom Activity:Studio Teaching

What Makes Cities So Hot? part of CLEAN Collection

This short video introduces the concept of the urban heat island effect.
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

Trees, Forests, and Climate Change part of CLEAN Collection

In this activity, students will learn about and model the carbon cycle. Using data from Global Forest Watch, students investigate regional and global patterns of forest loss, gain, and carbon ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Forest Resources:Deforestation, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Biology:Biogeochemistry, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change:Global change modeling
Resource Type: Activities

Our Hungry Planet: Design Thinking Challenge part of CLEAN Collection

This activity is the last part in a series called 'Our Hungry Planet.' Students will use their understanding of food systems to choose a topic related to food system issues at different ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Soils, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes
Resource Type: Activities

Farming and Climate Change part of CLEAN Collection

This resource from MIT includes a 14-minute podcast on the relationship between agriculture and climate change from a NASA scientist, and additional activities that support an understanding of using ...
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Biology:Biogeochemistry, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Geoscience:Soils, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes
Resource Type: Activities

Investigating Deforestation Through An Earth Systems View Using Landsat part of CLEAN Collection

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 ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Climate feedbacks, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Ecosystems, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Environmental Science:Forest Resources:Deforestation, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Biology
Resource Type: Activities

Atmospheric Carbon: Can We Offset the Increase? part of CLEAN Collection

This is a multi-step activity that helps students measure, investigate, and understand the increase in atmospheric CO2 and the utility of carbon offsets. It also enables students to understand that ...
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Greenhouse gas emissions, Climate feedbacks, Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Global change modeling, Greenhouse gas emissions, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology
Resource Type: Activities

Catan: Global Warming part of CLEAN Collection

This game is an expansion on the popular board game Catan, it adapts the regular Catan game to become a game about sustainability and climate change. It's a neat idea, but teachers must already ...
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Anthropogenic causes

Regulating Greenhouse Gases part of CLEAN Collection

This video highlights the work of climate scientists in the Amazon who research the relationship between deforestation, construction of new dams, and increased amounts of greenhouse gases being ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Forest Resources:Deforestation, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

The Effect of Land Masses on Climate part of Web Resource Collection

This video describes the complex connections between land (the lithosphere) and other parts of Earth’s climate system. Animations from NOAA show how distance from the equator affects average ...
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Solar radiation, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Global energy balance, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video