Teaching Activities

Unit 1: Introduction to Global Food Security part of The Wicked Problem of Global Food Security
Amy Potter, Armstrong State University
This introductory lesson will build the foundation for students to progress through the remaining units by defining food security and discussing the major factors contributing to food insecurity today (climate ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Course Module
Subject: Geography, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Human Population, Soils and Agriculture:Food Production and Distribution, Geoscience:Soils
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

How Much Water Do You Eat? part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.calacademy.org/educators/lesson-plans/how-mu...

California Academy of Sciences
This lesson will help students understand water use in food production and ways to use less water.

Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable, Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Soils, Environmental Science:Energy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Soils and Agriculture
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

HEART Force Drought Game part of CLEAN Collection

https://cires.colorado.edu/outreach/resources/game/heart...

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
In this interactive game, students solve challenges that their community faces during the course of an extreme drought event by using available individual and community resources. Students work in ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Soils, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Soils and Agriculture, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Economics, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Stories from the Climate Crisis: A Mixer part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/climate-crisis-m...

Bill Bigelow
Students will embody a specific person who is impacted by climate change and engage in conversations during a mixer. In these conversations, the students will learn how people from around the world ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Soils, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Policy:Environmental Economics, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Food, Farming, and Justice: A role play on La Vía Campesina part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.zinnedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03...

Bill Bigelow, Chris Buehler, Julie Treick O
This resource has students role-play as farmers from around the world and consider how agricultural practices are part of climate solutions. This resource includes role-play activities for students ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Geoscience:Soils, Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

The Effects of Climate Change on Agricultural Systems part of CLEAN Collection

https://swclimatehub.info/the-effects-of-climage-change-...

Asombro Institute for Science Education
This set of five activities focuses on how climate change can affect agriculture, including crop production and ranching. The activities in this guide are appropriate for both formal and informal ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Geoscience:Soils, Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Climate Change and the Water Cycle part of CLEAN Collection

https://swclimatehub.info/education/climate-change-and-w...

Stephanie Haan Amato
This unit consists of seven distinct activities that teach climate change, the water cycle, and the effects of the changing climate on water resources through the use of games, science experiments, ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), Middle (6-8), Intermediate (3-5)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology, Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Water Quality and Quantity, Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Soils
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary