Lesson Plan
Climate Literacy

Clean: It's Time to Tell the Story About Buds, Leaves and Global Warming

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students explore how, in New England, the timing of color change and leaf drop of deciduous trees is changing.
Unit Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: Seasons and Temperature: Greenhouse Effect

For Students 3rd - 8th
Animated resource helps young researchers understand what global warming and the greenhouse effect mean.
Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Prehistoric Climate Change and Why It Matters Today

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In a lesson plan in this issue of Smithsonian in Your Classroom, students do the work of a team of paleontologists studying a time of rising carbon dioxide and rapid global warming during the Eocene epoch. By examining fossils of tree...