Climate Literacy
Clean: How Does Melting Ice Affect Sea Level?
Middle schoolers 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.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Paleoclimate Reconstruction Lab
A lesson plan for an activity where students relate weather and climate patterns to understand annual sediment deposition. During the lesson students reconstruct climates from the past 300 years using lake sediment data. Lesson plans...
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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.
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.
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.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Envisioning Climate Change Using a Global Climate Model
Students run the climate modeling software, Educational Global Climate Modeling Suite (EdGCM), to visualize how temperature and snow coverage might change over the next century.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Exploring Ncar Climate Change Data Using Gis
With ArcGIS and climate data from the National Center for Atmospheric Research Climate Change Scenarios GIS Data Portal, students learn the basics of GIS-based climate modeling.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Exploring Earth Systems Science: The Interactive Globe Earth System Poster
In this introduction to Earth Systems Science, students use images depicting global environmental data to explore connections and patterns in the climate system.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Made Clear: How Do Scientists Collect Data?
Find out how scientists continually collect information about the Earth and its atmosphere.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Global Warming Won't Halt Ocean Current
From ABC News in Science, Larry O'Hanlon's article discusses climate change in the face of several climate models and poses both the good and the bad news associated with global warming.