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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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Amazing Expanding Ice part of CLEAN Collection

Children experiment with freezing water to observe a state change of water, and discover that it is less dense as a solid (ice) than it is as a liquid (water). Amazing Expanding Ice is an overnight ...
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
Resource Type: Activities

The Tip of the Iceberg part of CLEAN Collection

Children observe an ice cube in water and discuss the amount of ice above and below the water, discuss density of ice, and make predictions. Based on what they have observed about small ice chunks, ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
Resource Type: Activities

What is Weather? part of CLEAN Collection

This activity introduces the concept of weather. Students follow the first stages of the scientific process to investigate the four factors that contribute to making weather what it is.
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology
Resource Type: Activities

Flubber Flow part of CLEAN Collection

Flubber Flow is a 30-minute activity in which teams of four to five children experiment with Flubber and investigate how a solid can flow! They predict and model the properties of glaciers, view ...
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
Resource Type: Activities

Climate Change and Risks of New Pandemics part of CLEAN Collection

Through this lesson plan your students will learn that human induced climate change causes biodiversity disturbances and could be responsible for the increased risk of animal virus spillover into ...
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
Resource Type: Activities

NASA eClips: Our World: ICESat-2 - What Is Ice? part of CLEAN Collection

This 3-minute eClip video from Nasa's Our World series introduces students to the unique properties of water.
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

NASA eClips: Our World: Cool Clouds part of CLEAN Collection

This eClip video is part of NASA's Our World series and introduces students to the basics of cloud formation.
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Atmospheric structure and composition, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

Catch!...the World's Oceans part of CLEAN Collection

Children get to know each other through an icebreaker activity that introduces the importance of water on Earth.
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography, Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
Resource Type: Activities

Wind Streamer part of CLEAN Collection

Children create a wind streamer out of common materials and use it to determine the wind's direction.
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology
Resource Type: Activities

On the Rise part of CLEAN Collection

In this 60-minute interactive demonstration, students use ice blocks and heat lamps to model what will happen to coastlines around the world as glaciers melt. They explore why glaciers are melting as ...
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Sea Level Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
Resource Type: Activities