Climate Reconstruction from the Sedimentary Record part of Teaching Activities
Allison Jacobel, Middlebury College
This module guides students through an examination of how Earth scientists use marine sediments to reconstruct changes in Earth's past climate. They then compare records of changes in Earth's climate from ...

Acidification of the Oceans at the time of KPg event and Now part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
Cathy Carpenter, Norwich City School District; Shaundra Davis, Richfield Springs Central School District
This activity will engage students in researching the sequence of events and effects of the KPg event. Students will compare using data the acidification of oceans today to the acidification of the oceans after the ...

Northwestern Indiana Landscape Unit part of Teaching Activities
Moriah Weitman, University of Maine
In this lesson, students will investigate the question, what is the effect of climate on glacial landscape processes? Students will be guided through understanding how climate factors, such as temperature and ...

What are the causes and effects of ENSO? part of Complex Systems:Teaching Activities
Sarah Bednarz, Texas A & M University
This NASA Mission Geography module focuses on the evidence for global climate change. In the specific activity on ENSO, students role play policy makers deciding how to allocate Peru's resources to manage for ...

Modeling the carbon cycle of the anthropocene part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Heather Stoll, ETH Zurich
Students use an Excel sheet to complete forward and inverse models of changes in carbon distribution between atmosphere, ocean and the biosphere from 1751 to the present and several centuries into the future. The model is given as a mostly complete package, into which students input emissions data in various sensitivity tests.

Interpreting Antarctic Sediment Cores: A Record of Dynamic Neogene Climate part of Climate Change:Activities
Kristen St. John, James Madison University
This exercise set focuses on the use of sedimentary facies (lithologies interpreted to record particular depositional environments) to interpret paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic changes in Neogene sediment ...

Risky Business: Using Games to Understand Farmer Decision-making in Sri Lanka part of Teaching Activities
Thushara Gunda, Vanderbilt University
In coupled natural and human systems (such as farming), decision-making is rarely straightforward since it is influenced by myriad factors. This in-class role playing game allows students to step into the shoes of ...

Evaluating Risks, Benefits, and Hazards: A Site-Selection Simulation Activity part of Teaching Activities
Christopher Berg, Orange Coast College
An in-class jigsaw activity, in which students play the role of investigators consulting on behalf of an industrial client seeking an appropriate location to site a new facility to handle environmentally-damaging ...

Global Warming Graph Analysis part of Teaching Activities
Krista Larsen, Carleton College
Students interpret a variety of graphs from IPCC reports to learn the details of climate change.

Global Climate Change: Understanding the Science / Understanding the Impacts part of Integrate:Program Design:InTeGrate Program Models:Gustavus Adolphus:Teaching Activities
Jeff La Frenierre, Gustavus Adolphus College
This module introduces students to the basic science of climate change, as well as the concepts of vulnerability and adaptation in the context of climate change in different regions of the world.