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Teleconnections part of Project EDDIE:Teaching Materials:Modules
Kaitlin Farrell, University of Georgia; Cayelan Carey, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ
Ecosystems can be influenced by teleconnections, in which meteorological, societal, and/or ecological phenomenon link remote regions via cause and effect relationships. Because it is difficult to predict how ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Biology:Ecology, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:El Nino, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :El Nino/La Nina, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Ecology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Case Study 3.1 - Predicting Patterns: What Does La Niña Look Like? part of Climate of Change
Cynthia Fadem, Earlham College
This activity is designed to allow students who have been exposed to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation to analyze the La Niña mechanism and predict its outcomes. Students create an SST map for La Niña and both ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :El Nino/La Nina, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
InTeGrate Developed This material was developed and reviewed through the InTeGrate curricular materials development process.
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CLEAN Selected This activity has been selected for inclusion in the CLEAN collection.
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Case Study 3.2 - Exploring Patterns: ENSO on the Global Stage part of Climate of Change
Cynthia Fadem, Earlham College
I designed this activity to allow students who have become somewhat familiar with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation to explore the reality of ocean surface temperature data. Students analyze a time series of SST ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Geoscience:Atmospheric Science, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :El Nino/La Nina, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
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Your Own El Nino part of CLEAN Collection

https://aambpublicoceanservice.blob.core.windows.net/oce...
This activity allows students to make El Nino in a container, but it might work better as a teacher demonstration. The introduction and information provided describe El Nino, its processes and its ...
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Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change:Natural causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :El Nino/La Nina, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Oceanography, Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Natural causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Exploring El Niño part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
Kevin Theissen, University of St. Thomas (MN)
In this introductory-level lab activity, students first view a 20-minute portion of an informative video to learn about the operation of an array of moored buoys that is used to detect changes in the El Niño ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Audio/Visual:Animations/Video
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:El Nino, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :El Nino/La Nina, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Predicting Patterns: What Does La Niña Look Like? part of CLEAN Collection

https://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/teaching_materials/c...
Cynthia M. Fadem
This is an activity designed to allow students who have been exposed to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation to analyze the La Niña mechanism and predict its outcomes in a case study format.
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Natural causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :El Nino/La Nina, Geoscience:Oceanography, Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climatology , Climate Change:Natural causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Exploring Patterns: ENSO on the Global Stage part of CLEAN Collection

https://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/teaching_materials/c...
Cynthia M. Fadem
In this activity, students analyze data maps of sea surface temperature anomalies for a 14-year interval and create an ENSO time line in a case study format. Based on their findings, students ...
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Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Natural causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Oceanography, Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climatology :El Nino/La Nina, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change:Natural causes
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

El Niño and Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the Tropical Pacific part of Oceanography:Activities
Tim Cook, Worcester State University
This activity investigates the oceanographic and climatic characteristics of El Niño/La Niña (ENSO) events using observational data from moored ocean buoys in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Data are obtained from ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Problem Set, Project, Writing Assignment
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :El Nino/La Nina, Geoscience:Oceanography
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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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 ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:El Nino, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Public policy , Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :El Nino/La Nina, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Public policy, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Decision-Making
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Impacts of El Nino and La Nina part of Oceanography:Activities
Sue Clement, Kent State University-Main Campus
In this exercise, students explore NOAA and the Climate Data Center websites that provide information about El Niño. The students are then asked interpret a series of maps to describe the key changes in climate ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Writing Assignment, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :El Nino/La Nina, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:El Nino
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review