Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Energy Lab
Try and meet global energy demands by using alternative energy sources while keeping the carbon levels in the atmosphere down to acceptable levels. Simulator includes a data table available for download for student records.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Introduction to Environmental Engineering
Students are presented with examples of the types of problems that environmental engineers solve, specifically focusing on air and land quality issues. Air quality topics include air pollution sources, results of poor air quality...
Tramline
Tramline: Getting Green Virtual Field Trip
In this comprehensive website, students will learn about different forms of pollution, environmental impact of pollution, global warming, and things they can do to make a difference.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Introduction to Earth's Climate
This lesson is an introduction to Earth's climate and covers key principles regarding Earth's unique climate, atmosphere, and regional and temporal climate differences. Students will gain an understanding of how the weather and climate...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Greenhouse S'mores
Students learn about climate change as they investigate how different materials are affected by a greenhouse effect. The lesson and accompanying PowerPoint can both be downloaded.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The No Zone of Ozone
Students explore the causes and effects of the Earth's ozone holes through discussion and an interactive simulation. In an associated literacy activity, students learn how to tell a story in order to make a complex topic (such as global...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Exploring Regional Differences in Climate Change
Students create a set of graphs that facilitate comparison of climate change predicted for various states. They also use Microsoft Excel to create a graph showing precipitation data.
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.
Climate Literacy
Clean: How Does Melting Ice Affect Sea Level?
Students investigate how sea levels might rise when ice sheets and ice caps melt by constructing a pair of models and seeing the effects of ice melt in two different situations.
PBS
Pbs: Are the World's Weather and Climate Changing?
What's going on with our weather? Learn about it in this lesson plan that examines the climate and weather patterns in the world today. It has a weather quiz and guidelines that help the students understand weather changes occurring...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Project Learn: Where in the World Is Carbon Dioxide?
In this lesson plan on greenhouse gas, students conduct experiments to detect and collect carbon dioxide, then use titration to determine how much carbon dioxide is present in an indicator solution.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Climate Science Digital Resources
A digital collection of high-quality lesson resources that address climate and energy related topics.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Do Scientists Agree About the Causes of Climate Change?
Students follow a four-step process to debunk the myth regarding scientific consensus on climate change.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Ecology at Work
Students learn how rooftop gardens help the environment and the lives of people, especially in urban areas. They gain an understanding of how plants reduce the urban heat island effect, improve air quality, provide agriculture space,...
Nature Conservancy
Nature Works Everywhere: Climate Change and the Role of Nature in Resilience
Students will examine the ways that humans have impacted Earth, and then determine how well their home state is prepared for the impacts of climate change. [6 min, 55 sec] Includes lesson plan and studnet handouts.
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: Voters to Choose Between Economy and Environment
Although this lesson plan deals with the a California vote for 2010 Elections, the subject matter will need to be addressed time and time again: economy vs. environment. Green energy is more expensive. Many companies would have to go out...
Other
Teaching Social Responsibility: Teachable Moment: Japan's Nuclear Power Debate
Readings and news articles provide information on the debate over nuclear energy. In particular, the questions being raised due to the crisis in Japan after the earthquake and tsunami in March, 2011.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Climate Change Is About Water
Through a range of voices and multimedia materials, discover the story of climate change and its impacts on water in Bolivia. Case studies bring the explanatory analysis of vulnerability and the social, economic and cultural impacts of...
University of Wisconsin
Uw: Probabilities, Uncertainties and Units Used to Quantify Climate Change
This resource engages learners in using scientific data to analyze a 150-year dataset from Lake Mendota in Madison Wisconsin reflecting seasonal ice cover.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Stabilization Wedges Game
A team-based exercise that teaches players about the scope of the greenhouse gas problem, plus technologies that already exist to dramatically reduce our carbon emissions and help steer Earth away from climate change.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Coral Bleaching: A White Hot Problem
Students investigate coral bleaching using water temperature data from the NOAA National Data Buoy Center. Then they learn about the habitat of corals, the stresses on coral populations, and the impact of increased sea surface...
Climate Literacy
Clean: Climate Change and Arctic Ecosystems
Students learn about how climate change is affecting the Arctic ecosystem, and then investigate how this change is impacting polar bear populations. Students analyze maps of Arctic sea ice, temperature graphs, and polar bear population...
Climate Literacy
Clean: Climate Change and Ecosystems
Learners research the inter-dependencies among plants and animals in an ecosystem and explore how climate change affects those relationships and the ecosystem as a whole.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Person on the Street (Pos) Interview About Climate Science
A media project where students create a video that documents unrehearsed interviews with "people on the street" about a specific question or issue in climate science.
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