Teaching Activities

This cloud lab allows exploration of cloud identification, reconstructing and following hurricanes, and interpreting and investigating data. Graphs and other data interpretation are used heavily ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Global change modeling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change:Climate feedbacks
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Data Puzzle: On a Budget part of CLEAN Collection

https://cires.colorado.edu/ceee/resources/data-puzzle-bu...

Students learn about Earth's energy balance and use data to better understand why the Arctic is warming faster than other locations on Earth. This comes from analyzing and interpreting incoming ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Hydrology, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climatology :Global energy balance
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Data Puzzle: Not All Warming is Equal part of CLEAN Collection

https://cires.colorado.edu/ceee/resources/data-puzzle-no...

In this lesson students analyze and interpret global temperature and carbon dioxide data to determine which parts of Earth are experiencing the greatest changes in temperature and carbon dioxide, and ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Global change modeling, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Global change modeling, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Greenhouse effect
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Introduction to Modeling part of CLEAN Collection

https://learn.concord.org/resources/898/introduction-to-...

Using SageModeler as a primary tool, this activity explains what models are and how they are used. Students will practice defining the boundaries of a system using a driving question, create causal ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), Intermediate (3-5), Middle (6-8)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Energy and Climate Change Educator Guide part of CLEAN Collection

https://climate.mit.edu/til-about-energy-electricity-edu...

The focus of this introductory activity is on energy/electricity sources and generation between 2001 and 2018. Students listen to a podcast about electricity generation and then are tasked to ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Greenhouse gas emissions, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Energy, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Mitigation of climate change, Anthropogenic causes
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Mapping a Personal Story of Environmental Change part of CLEAN Collection

https://arcticandearthsigns.alaska.edu/learning-activiti...

Arctic and Earth SIGNs
This is a very simple but effective lesson that engages students with drawing a map of their local environment, then annotating their map with environmental changes they've observed. The ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), Informal, Middle (6-8), Intermediate (3-5)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Climate feedbacks, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Polar Lab part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/polar/

NOVA
Using a combination of clickable 360 degree landscapes, 2D and 3D videos, animations, interviews with scientists, and mini-games, the Polar Lab takes players onto the glacier ice and into the lab in ...

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Biology, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

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

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

Eyes on the Hydrosphere: Tracking Water Resources part of CLEAN Collection

https://serc.carleton.edu/getsi/teaching_materials/water...

Jonathan Harvey, Rebecca Walker
This module introduces students to the basics of the hydrologic cycle in a way that engages them with both societal challenges related to water and methods for measuring the water system. In the ...

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