Teaching Activities

Rain Measurements Tell a Story part of CLEAN Collection

https://scied.ucar.edu/activity/rain-data-tells-story

This activity focuses on measuring, graphing, and interpreting rainfall following an 8 day rainfall event story in Boulder, Colorado from 2013. Data is from this real world example, and background ...

Grade Level: Primary (K-2), Intermediate (3-5)
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Geoscience:Hydrology, Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Nature Cities part of CLEAN Collection

https://subjecttoclimate.org/lesson-plan/nature-cities

Lisa Greenwood
This lesson will give students a basic grasp of the value of preserving green spaces in urban areas to mitigate the effects of urban heat islands and climate change. In this lesson, students will ...

Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), Primary (K-2)
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Climate feedbacks, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Temperature Detectives part of CLEAN Collection

https://climate.earthathome.org/temperature-detectives/

Ingrid Zabel
In this lesson students learn about how temperature values can vary depending on color (white vs. black) and light (direct light vs. shade) by making a hypothesis and testing it with thermometers. ...

Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), Primary (K-2)
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Healthy Habitats: Climate Change Action for K-2 part of CLEAN Collection

https://climategen.org/resources/43007/healthy-habitats-...

This resource includes three lessons that build on one another and are designed to be taught sequentially to show how habitats and climate change are connected. Students make observations and collect ...

Grade Level: Primary (K-2)
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Biology, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Adapting a Garden to Heavy Rain part of CLEAN Collection

https://climate.earthathome.org/adapting-garden-to-heavy...

Ingrid Zabel
This activity focuses on adapting to climate change and building resilience to heavy rainfalls in the context of a garden. Students devise, create, and test ideas for protecting a garden from heavy ...

Grade Level: Primary (K-2), Intermediate (3-5)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Water Quality and Quantity, Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Soils, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Sun Up, Sun Down part of CLEAN Collection

https://subjecttoclimate.org/lesson-plan/sun-up-sun-down

Elizabeth Ward
Students learn about the role the sun plays in our daily lives and how solar energy can be used. Data is collected in the mini-lessons and demonstrations including observations with shadows, creating ...

Grade Level: Primary (K-2)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Solar radiation, Global energy balance, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Introduction to Climate Resilience: Elementary School part of CLEAN Collection

https://ecorise.org/intro-to-cr/#elementary

This lesson introduces students to climate resilience by emphasizing that everyone has a role to play in helping others during weather emergencies. The lesson starts by activating students’ ...

Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), Primary (K-2)
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

GLOBE: Cloud Watch part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.globe.gov/documents/348614/381dac63-2770-451...

The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment Program
Students observe cloud type and coverage, as well as other weather conditions over a five-day period and correlate these observations. Students make and test predictions using these observations.

Grade Level: Primary (K-2), Intermediate (3-5), High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

GLOBE: Observing, Describing and Identifying Clouds part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.globe.gov/documents/348614/bcee1e0a-57e4-43a...

The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment Program
Students observe, sketch, and describe clouds on their own before learning to identify cloud types by comparing photos of different clouds to their sketches.

Grade Level: High School (9-12), Intermediate (3-5), Primary (K-2), Middle (6-8)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Ice is Water, Water is Ice part of CLEAN Collection

https://messenger.jhuapl.edu/Learn/pdf/ice_melts.pdf

Carnegie Institution of Washington Carnegie Academy for Science Education
This lesson invites young students to inquire about phase changes, about what happens as water changes into ice and as ice changes into water, observing ice melting and freezing under a variety of ...

Grade Level: Primary (K-2), Intermediate (3-5)
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

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