This article has a brief summary of the causes and possible consequences of the greenhouse effect and global warming. In particular, the effects of the potential climate change in California are highlighted.

The Repeat Photography Project pairs historic images with contemporary photos thus documenting glacial decline through photography while communicating the effects of global warming.

Students create and observe a greenhouse effect model and discuss the implications of global warming theory for engineers, themselves and the Earth.

Students learn how a bill becomes law in the U.S. Congress and research legislation related to global warming.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Jamal who learns about how global warming can create colder weather in the winter because of the polar vortex. A question sheet is available to help students build...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage gives information about global warming and its threat to the polar bears in the Arctic. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage talks about weather indications of global warming. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the North Pole, the countries that want to claim it, and the effects of global warming. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Useful introduction to the carbon cycle with a diagram and a discussion of the effects of carbon dioxide on the greenhouse effect and global warming.

Animated resource helps young researchers understand what global warming and the greenhouse effect mean.

In this activity students will understand the events occuring during the Cambrian explosion. They will also begin to explain how methane hydrates contribute to global warming. Finally, they will discuss links between methane hydrates...

The atmosphere has not always been the same. It has been much the same, but nevertheless now contains more nitrogen and oxygen, and less carbon dioxide, than it did when the earth first formed. Recently, the addition of greenhouse gases...

Learn all the facts and figures about climate change.

Students focus on the three interconnected choices global society faces as Earth's climate continues to change -- suffer, adapt, and mitigate -- to analyze and predict current and future impacts to Earth's systems. Using videos excerpted...

Read about Earth's oceans and the effects that climate have had on the rising temperatures over the past one hundred years. Discover how the Earth's ocean and atmosphere are interlocked so that when one changes, the other is affected.

Discussion on how nature responds to the Earth's climate changes and the adaptations that may take place. Links to related activities.

If you're looking for photographic evidence of global warming, then this is a good resource to check out. Photographs from around the world document the effects of global warming.

This lesson plan resource contains a series of activities that allow the students to learn about the issue of global warming. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]

Learn about the climate in the Polar regions and how it is affected by global warming. Links to related material.

From ABC News in Science, this article discusses results from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the costs in battling global warming.

From ABC News in Science, Alister Doyle's article deals primarily with the issue of global warming and the possibility of it as a cause for Hurricane Katrina.

A collection of video lectures from a course that explores the physical processes the control Earth's atmosphere, ocean, and climate that is taught at Yale University. The course covers topics like clouds, rain, severe storms, regional...

A worksheet regarding the effects of global warming.

Energy is used everyday coming from burning fossil fuels which releases carbon dioxide into the air. Discover what this has to do with global warming and how we can do our part to slow it down.