Teaching Activities

Pamela Freeman
In this module, students will practice answering a specific question about how climate change has affected the flowering date in American elm trees. After students learn to manipulate the elm data ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Biology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Living Landscapes: Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Fish part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.skclivinglandscapes.org/alaska_arctic/Labs_T...

Interactive map tool to assess how rising stream temperatures could affect native fish of the Northwest. Lesson concepts include the relationship between water temperatures, dissolved oxygen levels ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Biology, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Ecosystems
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Educator Guide: Lab 1- Launching an Expedition part of CLEAN Collection

https://serc.carleton.edu/trex/labs/lab1_launch.html

Nicole Davi, Pat Pringle, Frank Wattenberg
Students are charged with thinking about what it takes to 'do science'. They are introduced to the science of dendrochronology and learn how tree-ring science is executed.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16), Middle (6-8), Informal, High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Biology, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Ecosystems
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Forest Management and the Carbon Cycle part of CLEAN:CLEAN Network:Teaching Materials
Sarah Brylinsky, Second Nature, Inc.
This activity is part of the community collection of teaching materials on climate and energy topics. These materials were created by faculty as part of the CLEAN Climate Workshop, held in May, 2012 and are not ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Forest Resources, Ecosystems:Ecology, Biogeochemical cycling, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Atmospheric gases, Geoscience:Soils, Biology:Ecology, 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:Impacts of climate change
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Investigating Coral Bleaching Using Real Data part of CLEAN Collection

https://dataintheclassroom.noaa.gov/content/coral-bleaching

Carolyn Joyce, Viola Todd
This sequence of activities using real-world data to explain the importance of coral reefs and the relationship of coral reef health to the surrounding environment. Unit includes five activities.

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16), Middle (6-8)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Biology, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Greenhouse Gases: A Closer Look part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.explainingclimatechange.ca/lesson6/lesson6.html

King
This lesson covers different aspects of the major greenhouse gases - water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxides and CFCs - including some of the ways in which human activities are affecting ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Greenhouse effect, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Biology:Biogeochemistry, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary