PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Global Climate Change: Understanding the Greenhouse Effect
Students study past climate change, explore the effect of greenhouse gases on Earth's atmosphere today, and consider human impact on global warming.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Climate and Weather
Eight hands-on lessons module in which students explore climate and weather. Inquiry-based investigations include observing weather, weather reporting, weather maps, weather satellites, causes of weather, and climate change.
Other
Climate Change Institute: Climate Reanalyzer
Using interfaces for reanalysis and historical station data, the Climate Reanalyzer provides an intuitive platform for visualizing a variety of weather and climate data sets and models.
King's Centre for Visualization in Science
Explaining Climate Change: Lesson 1: Introduction to Earth's Climate
This is the first lesson in a series of learning modules on the topic of climate change. It explores Earth's unique climate and atmosphere, regional climate differences, and temporal climate differences. Includes comprehension questions...
Other
Lehigh University: Climate Change
An inquiry-based science unit for middle school students centered on weather and climate. The lessons integrate technology and lab activities while teaching about Earth system energy balance, greenhouse gases, paleoclimatology, and how...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Exploring Climate Change With Gis
Use Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to observe climate change with these interactive lessons.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Observations of Climate Change
This interactive lesson introduces students to the various ways that people work to understand climate change, particularly in the Arctic.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Heat Is On: Understanding Local Climate Change
A lesson unit where students analyze long-term weather data for Phoenix to look for changes that have occurred over time. They look at factors that would cause climate warming, including greenhouse gases and other phenomena. They then...
Globe
The Globe Program: Climate Module
Climate change affects the whole world, from the tropics to the poles. Through learning activities, students learn how weather over a long period of time describes climate, explore how sea level rise can affect coastal communities and...
Climate Literacy
Clean: A Global Issue: The Impacts of Climate Change
This is instructional activity five of a 9-instructional activity module. Activity explores the effects of climate change on different parts of the Earth system and on human well-being: polar regions, coral reefs, disease vectors,...
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Made Clear: What Is Mid Atlantic Climate Change?
Climate change is impacting every nation and continent on Earth- including the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Find out how.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Weather and Climate in Your Neighborhood
Do you live in an area where the weather changes a lot from season to season throughout the year? Or do you live in a place where the weather stays pretty much the same all year long? How dynamic is the weather, and how does it compare...
Other
United States Global Change Research Program
This government program integrates federal research on global climate change. Agency offers many resources regarding global as well as American climate change. For example, click on the section of the country where you live. Key issues,...
Other
Earth Journalism Network: Climate Commons
A unique interactive tool that embeds news articles and information about climate change into a map of the United States. Users are able to explore what the impact of climate change at a local, regional or national level, as well as...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Global Climate Change
Students learn how the greenhouse effect is related to global warming and how global warming impacts our planet, including global climate change. Extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and how we react to these changes are the main...
Other
Climate Gateway: What Is Climate Change?
This ClimateGateway.com site provides information on what climate change is as well as the factors that affect global climate.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Climate Change and Public Health
Article discussing the very real impact of climate change on human health, and the importance of adaptation planning to address public health problems. These problems can include heat-related distress, chronic conditions affected by...
Other
Niwa: Climate and Weather
Want to learn more about the climate and weather? This webpage contains links to websites around the world concerned with providing information about climate and weather. Topics include ozone, greenhouse gases, global warming, tornadoes,...
NOAA
Noaa: Climate
The collections under this theme are developed to improve climate literacy and to provide access to scientific information, which can inform personal decisions about actions that influence climate.
NOAA
Noaa: Is Our Climate Changing [Pdf]
Discover thoughts about the Earth's changing climate and how these changes may impact people and the environment.
NASA
Climate Kids: Climate Change Trivia
Fun website for kids on earth science presents trivia game in which students can test their knowledge on what they have learned about climate.
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: A Climate of Extremes
Higher temperatures are only part of the climate-change forecast. Are current extreme weather events a sign that warming is already here? What do climate models forecast for weather around the globe? Why is it so hard to predict the...
Other
Niwa: Common Climate and Weather Terms
A great place to find a definition to terms used to describe climate change and meteorology. This site contains a glossary of common terms for both climate and weather.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Climate
The climate where you live is called regional climate. Global climate is a description of the climate of a planet as a whole, with all the regional differences averaged. Includes links to additional resources on climate and climate change.