Teaching Activities

Our Climate Our Future
In this learning activity students learn how to and practice having conversations about climate change with adults or peers. The activity is based on psychological and social science research.

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

Measure a Changing Volcano part of EarthScope ANGLE:Educational Materials:Resources
EarthScope Consortium
This hands-on demonstration illustrates how GPS can be used to measure the inflation and deflation of a volcano. Volcanoes may inflate when magma rises closer to the surface and deflate when the pressure dissipates or after an eruption.

Grade Level: General Public, Informal, Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), Intermediate (3-5)
Resource Type: Activities: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video, Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Demonstration
Subject: Geoscience, Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Mass Wasting, Volcanism, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Investigating Climate Change at a Macroscopic and Microscopic Level part of CLEAN Collection

http://phet.colorado.edu/en/contributions/view/4038

Amy Rouinfar
This activity uses two interactive simulations to illustrate climate change, 1) at the micro/molecular level - modeling the impact of increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere ...

Grade Level: Informal, High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Atmospheric structure and composition, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Rebutting the Myth: Consensus on the Causes of Climate Change part of CLEAN:CLEAN Network:Teaching Materials
This page presents a strategy for addressing a common climate misconception in the classroom, derived from The Debunking Handbook, by John Cook and Stephan Lewandowsky. This material was created by faculty as part ...

Grade Level: General Public, Informal, High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Responding to Climate Change part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.explainingclimatechange.ca/lesson9/lesson9.html

King
This is the ninth and final lesson in a series of lessons about climate change. This lesson focuses on the various activities that humans can do to mitigate the effects of climate change. This ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), Informal, High School (9-12), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Greenhouse gas emissions, Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Energy, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Rainwater Harvesting Service Learning Project part of Service Learning:Activities
Linda McCall, Texas Water Development Board
× Students will gain an understanding of the history, benefits, and components of a rainwater harvesting system and partner with community members to design and build a rainwater harvesting system for their ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14), Informal, High School (9-12), College Upper (15-16), Middle (6-8), Intermediate (3-5)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Project:Service Learning
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Management and Policy, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Water Conservation
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Implementing A Constructivist Teaching Model For Conceptualizing Geologic Time part of Rates and Time:GSA Activity Posters
, Georgia State University
The activity fosters middle learning students critical thinking and allows for student generated essential questions to further their understanding of Earth's history and geologic time.

Grade Level: Informal, Middle (6-8)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology

World Climate: Climate Change Negotiations Game part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.climateinteractive.org/world-climate-simulat...

Tom Fiddaman, John Sterman
This simulation provides scenarios for exploring the principles of climate dynamics from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Interconnections among climate issues, public stakeholders, and the ...

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

Geology of Westchester County, NY part of NAGT:Our Work:Past Projects:Teaching in the Field:Field Trip Collection
Thomas McGuire Cave Creek Digital, Cave Creek, AZ Intended Audience: These trips would be appropriate for students in grades 7-12, introductory college students, teachers and the general public. More advanced ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, Informal, General Public, High School (9-12), Middle (6-8):Middle - 8, Middle - 7
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity:Field trip
Subject: Geoscience:Geology

Earthquake Shaking and Damage part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Eric Baer, Highline Community College
This student homework and problem set has students quantitatively earthquake hazard, shaking and damage.

Grade Level: General Public, College Lower (13-14), Informal
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Writing Assignment, Problem Set, Classroom Activity, Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Geoscience:Geology, Geology:Structural Geology:Geophysics and Structural Geology, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary