Teaching Activities

Lake Modeling Module part of Project EDDIE:Teaching Materials:Modules
This page was initially developed by Carey, C.C., S. Aditya, K. Subratie, and R. Figueiredo. 1 May 2016. Project EDDIE: Modeling Climate Change Effects on Lakes Using Distributed Computing. Project EDDIE Module 4, Version 1. Module development was supported by NSF DEB 1245707 and ACI 1234983. Note: An updated version of this module is available as part of the Macrosystems EDDIE project. Please visit the Climate Change Effects on Lake Temperatures module to view and download module files. We recommend using the updated Macrosystems EDDIE version of the module, as the Lake Modeling module materials have not been maintained with R code and software updates.
Lakes around the globe are experiencing the effects of climate change. In this module, students will learn how to use a lake model to explore the effects of altered weather on lakes, and then develop their own ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geography:Physical, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Build Your Own Earth part of Teaching Activities
David Schultz, University of Manchester
Build Your Own Earth is a freely available web site to explore the factors that affect Earth's climate. Climate model simulations reveal the annual distributions of 50 different quantities. An accompanying ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

En-ROADS Climate Change Solutions Simulator part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.climateinteractive.org/en-roads/

MIT Sloanâ€™s Sustainability Initiative Climate Interactive
This climate simulation tool makes it intuitive to see how changes in energy, land use, agriculture, and other policies will affect Earth's projected temperature. Users move sliders on various ...

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

Quantifying The Drivers and Impacts of Natural Disturbance Events – The 2013 Colorado Floods part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.neonscience.org/resources/learning-hub/tutor...

Megan A. Jones, Leah A. Wasser, Mariela Perignon
Several factors contributed to the extreme flooding that occurred in Boulder, Colorado in 2013. In this data activity, students explore and visualize the data for stream discharge data collected by ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

An abrupt global climate change event in Earth history- Evidence from the ocean part of CLEAN Collection

https://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/sedimentary/SGP2...

Kevin Theissen
This activity is a research project in which students explore and synthesize key paleoceanographic evidence for the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) as found in marine sediment cores ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

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 ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, Middle (6-8), College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Environmental Science, Geography, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Global Change and Climate, Natural Hazards
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Paleotempestology Lab part of CLEAN Collection

https://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/intro/activities...

Kira Lawrence, Lafayette College
This activity introduces students to stratigraphic correlation and the dating of geologic materials, using coastal sediment cores that preserve a record of past hurricane activity.

Global Energy Flows part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.glbrc.org/outreach/educational-materials/glo...

Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
In this activity, students analyze data detailing global energy sources and sinks (uses) and construct a diagram to show the relative scale and the connections between them. Discussions of scale; ...

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

Last Glacial Maximum part of CLEAN Collection

https://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/climatechange/ac...

Kristine DeLong, Louisiana State University
In this activity for undergraduates, students explore the CLIMAP (Climate: Long-Range Investigation, Mapping and Prediction) model results for differences between the modern and the Last Glacial ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Natural causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climatology :Orbital patterns, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Natural causes
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary