Teaching Activities

Is that true? part of Oceanography:Activities
Steve Hovan, Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus
Ask students to research the "truth" behind statements from recent news articles and provide their opinion about what is "true". These assignments can be done as often as the instructor feels ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Writing Assignment, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography, Atmospheric Science:Meteorology, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Effectively engaging with climate skeptics part of Oceanography:Activities
Jessica Kleiss, Lewis & Clark College
One of my persistent challenges as a climate scientist involves friendly conversations with my extended (climate skeptic) family over the Thanksgiving table, as I try to inform and guide their perceptions about ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Writing Assignment, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Climate, Climate Change, and Racism part of Teaching Activities
Kaatje van der Hoeven Kraft, Whatcom Community College
Students engage in a discussion about climate change by both watching videos and reading an article to learn about the science behind climate change and some of the impacts of our warming climate. They then post ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Discussion
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Finding and predicting hurricane activity through GIS part of Data, Simulations and Models:Online Data Sets 2015:Activities
Jennifer Gebelein, Florida International University
Students must be able to search for, find, download, display, query and map hurricane and other relevant GIS data. Hurricane data spans 1851-2008 and is from: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Project, Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Understanding the Carbon Cycle: A Jigsaw Approach part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
David Hastings, Eckerd College
In this "jigsaw" exercise, each student is assigned one of five geochemical processes in the carbon cycle to research, fully understand, and then explain to others in groups of five. At the end of class ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Writing Assignment, Classroom Activity:Jigsaw
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Impacts of El Nino and La Nina part of Oceanography:Activities
Sue Clement, Kent State University-Main Campus
In this exercise, students explore NOAA and the Climate Data Center websites that provide information about El Niño. The students are then asked interpret a series of maps to describe the key changes in climate ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Writing Assignment, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :El Nino/La Nina, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:El Nino
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Choosing Papers part of Complex Systems:Teaching Activities
deborah gross, Carleton College
A procedure for having students dive directly into the literature to select papers that are appropriate for the class as a whole to read and discuss. The activity provides constraints and a format for sorting the ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Meteorology:Air quality, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Air Quality:Pollutants, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Air quality:Pollutants, Environmental Science:Waste
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Gulf Stream Heat Budget and Europe part of Visualization:Examples
Warren Tomkiewicz, Plymouth State University
Student groups are presented a problem scenario to research and make recommendations, predictions, and a resolution of the problem based on data and visualizations.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Writing Assignment, Project:Investigative Case Studies
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Atmospheric and oceanic circulation, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Abrupt climate change, greenhouse gases, and the bipolar see-saw part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2010:Teaching Activities
Kathleen Johnson, University of California-Irvine
In this activity, students work with paleoclimate proxy data (d18O, CH4, CO2)from the Byrd and GISP2 ice cores. Students prepare a graph of paleoclimate data and use the graph to answer several questions about the ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Hurricane Investigation part of Hurricanes-Climate Change Connection:Activities
Melinda Huff, Northeastern Oklahoma Agricultural and Mech Coll
This is a simple homework assignment that will reinforce topics discussed in lecture as well as enabling students to search and analyze information on the web.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Writing Assignment
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Atmospheric circulation, Environmental Science:Energy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science, Oceanography:Physical , Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather:Hurricanes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review