Teaching Activities

Pamela Freeman
In this module, students will practice answering a specific question about how climate change has affected the flowering date in American elm trees. After students learn to manipulate the elm data ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Biology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Carbonated Communities part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.shapeoflife.org/lesson-plan/sol/carbonated-c...

Lacey Moore
This series of two lessons uses cutting-edge scientific research on the effects of climate change on communities in the intertidal. Through a combination of a dynamic presentation and several videos, ...

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Ecosystems, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Mitigation of climate change, Geoscience:Oceanography, Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

HEART Force - A Changing Climate: Understanding Wildfire in Colorado part of CLEAN Collection

https://cires.colorado.edu/ceee/resources/lesson/changin...

Katya Schloesser
In this lesson, students investigate wildfires in Colorado by analyzing wildfire data and information to create a local news story that educates community members about wildfire risk. In Part 1, ...

Grade Level: Middle (6-8):Middle - 7, Middle - 8, Middle - 6, Middle (6-8)
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Climate Change and Risks of New Pandemics part of CLEAN Collection

https://tropicsu.org/lesson-plan-risks-of-new-pandemics/

TROP ICSU
Through this lesson plan your students will learn that human induced climate change causes biodiversity disturbances and could be responsible for the increased risk of animal virus spillover into ...

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

Data Puzzle: To Reflect or Not to Reflect part of CLEAN Collection

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

Students analyze and interpret Arctic albedo data to evaluate the effect of declining sea ice on the Arctic system. They connect this information to climate and finish by constructing a conceptual ...

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

Ojibwe Lifeway: Wild Rice Harvesting part of CLEAN Collection

http://g-wow.org/en-us/wildrice/default.aspx

This website focuses on Ojibwe wild rice harvesting (manoomin). It is a celebration of the historical practice of wild rice harvesting, why it is so important to Ojibwe life, and how climate change ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16), High School (9-12), Informal
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Soils and Agriculture, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Soils, Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
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

Data Puzzle: Tracing Carbon Through the Arctic Food Web part of CLEAN Collection

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

There are two types of Arctic algae (sea ice and ocean), and components of the Arctic food web are reliant on specific types. In this activity, students explore the food web relationships, and the ...

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

Lake County Cascading Hazards Unit part of CLEAN Collection

https://cires.colorado.edu/ceee/resources/lake-county-ca...

The unit gives a brief introduction to several natural hazards that impact communities in California; drought, flooding, earthquakes, landslides, and wildfire, and connects the hazards by introducing ...

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Ecosystems, Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Economics, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Fired Up Over Math: Studying Wildfires from Space part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/fired-up-ove...

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Students learn how scientists assess wildfires using remote sensing, then use some of the same techniques to solve grade-level appropriate math problems.

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