University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: The Very, Very Simple Climate Model Activity
Through a simple online model, students learn about the relationship between average global temperature and carbon dioxide emissions while predicting temperature change over the 21st Century.
Oxfam
Oxfam Education
This non-profit organization presents teacher resources on a number of different global issues. Topics include climate change, the G8 Summit, refugees, global citizenship and more. Includes video.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: The Very, Very Simple Climate Model
Through a simple online model, students learn about the relationship between average global temperature and carbon dioxide emissions while predicting temperature change over the 21st Century.
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International Institute for Sustainable Development
The IISD--the International Institute for Sustainable Development--provides information on all aspects of sustainable development: business, climate change, economic policy, energy, and natural resources. Its website also includes...
PBS
Pbs: Nova: Dimming the Sun
An online presentation of NOVA's program Dimming the Sun. You can read a transcript of the show, read an essay on the effect of contrails on global warming, and view slideshows tracing a timeline of climate change and new technologies...
NASA
Nasa Earth Observatory: Polar Paradox
In this article about global warming, learn how the warming climate could affect the polar ice caps, glaciers, sea ice, and amount of freshwater entering the polar oceans. Read how some scientists believe global warming could add to...
Other
Cape Farewell Arctic Voyage
Cape Farewell is an organization dedicated to the study of the ocean's role in regulating global temperature and its relationship to climate change and global warming. Each year a trek is made in order to study these climate changes....
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Choosing Earth's Climate Future
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...
Other
Antarctic Geological Drilling: Environmental Literacy Framework Activities
An impressive collection of lessons on climate science and climate change. The entire book can be downloaded. As well, each lesson has its own page with some combination of background information, PowerPoints, images, maps, glossaries,...
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara
University of California: A Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems
Maps in different categories such as fishing, climate change, and pollution were pulled together into a composite map that shows the impact of humans on the world's oceans. Analysis at the time (2008) showed that 40% of the world's...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's Wrong With Global Climate Change?
Students will identify factors that affect the solubility of a salt and test one of the factors (temperature). They will apply their experience to ocean salinity, the effects of temperature on the composition of ocean water, and what...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Global Climate Change: Hydrosphere
Use this site to explore real scientific data relating to the hydrosphere. With this information you can gather evidence, test theories, and come to conclusions. Click on the data examples to view a full scale version.
NASA
Nasa Earth Observatory: El Nino's Extended Family Introduction
This article discusses cycle of global weather patterns and its relation to El Nino. Learn how global weather patterns are being tracked by satellites and how scientists are predicting weather patterns up to a year in advance.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Interactive Geologic Timeline Activity
In this learning activity, learners use a web-based geologic timeline to examine temperature, CO2 concentration, and ice cover data to investigate how climate has changed during the last 715 million years. Students will gain an...
Center for Educational Technologies
Exploring the Environment El Nino: The Child Returns
Use remote sensing data and background information to look at regional and global consequences of El Nino. Try working with the 'situation' to test your understanding.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center: Arctic: A Friend Acting Strangely
Discover the devastating effects of climate change on an Inuit Arctic community in northern Canada. The melting sea ice caused by global warning has started a chain reaction of many changes in the culture and survivability in the Arctic...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Kids Crossing: Living in the Greenhouse
This web site provides information about the global climate, Earth's cycles, the greenhouse effect and greenhouse gases, ancient climate changes, and climate events and news.
Other
Energy Star: Energy Star Kids
The Government sponsored resource helps individuals protect the environment through superior energy efficiency. Topics examined are climate change, global warming, and energy. The resource consists of games and activities, lesson plans,...
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Woods Hole Research Center
This site provides information about the issue of climate change. Here you can learn about the greenhouse effect, the scientific evidence to support global warming, the culprits, potential outcomes, what the skeptics don't tell you, and...
Climate Literacy
Clean: Public Service Announcement (Psa) for Grades 6 12
Students study climate change and create a Public Service Announcement that communicates their understanding of the science, raises awareness about climate change, and motivates people to take action.
PBS
Pbs: Scientific American Frontiers: Little Ice Age
Did you know there was a global 'Little Ice Age' around the time Columbus sailed across the Atlantic? Climatologists have documented changes in temperature and how countries and people around the world were affected. What caused the LIA?...
NOAA
Noaa: Where Will the Polar Bears Go? [Pdf]
Get to know polar bears and learn why it is important for them to live in the current arctic conditions. Make a poster that demonstrates your understanding of how climate change in the arctic could affect polar bears and humans.
Geographypods
Geographypods: Theme 3: Economic Development: Environmental Risks and Benefits
This learning module looks at the impact of economic development on the environment. It begins with a look at a serious pollution problem in China, then looks at waste reduction and climate change. Includes an animation, images, and videos.
European Union
Environment for Young Europeans: Air
Part of a larger site on the environment in general, the site concentrates on air, air pollution, and climate change. From the European Union.
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