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Website
Information Technology Associates

Theodora: Maldives: Economy 2017

For Students 9th - 10th
This information on Maldives' economy is from the 2007 CIA fact book. Find out what else keeps Maldives going besides tourism.
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Website
National Wildlife Federation

National Wildlife Federation: Great Lakes

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit this resource to briefly explore the geography and history, meet the wildlife, and understand the threats to the Great Lakes basin.
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Primary
Council of Foreign Relations

Council on Foreign Relations: Obama Moves on Climate Policy

For Students 9th - 10th
This interview with YVo de Boer the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change provides analysis on the Obama Administration's efforts to align U.S. policy with international agreements and efforts to address...
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Website
Other

World Wildlife Fund: Climate Change Is Putting Polar Bears in Peril

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes how polar bears' very existence is being threatened by climate change.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Teaching Social Responsibility: Teachable Moment: Japan's Nuclear Power Debate

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Website
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Churning Sea Surprises Ocean Watchers

For Students 9th - 10th
From ABC News in Science, this article examines the role that ocean currents play in global warming and climate issues. The article covers the impact of the Antarctic circumpolar current and its affect on surrounding oceans.
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Handout
Other

Canada to Fortify Arctic Sovereignty With New Icebreakers

For Students 9th - 10th
Due to global warming, the Northwest Passage may be open for large parts of summer, therefore, allowing improved ship access. Canada is building the new Polar Class 4 Arctic offshore patrol boats to conduct sea-borne surveillance...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Sinking Water: Glaciers, Ocean Currents and Weather Patterns

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A instructional activity where students learn how warm water is less dense than cold water, and what this means for global climate change as ice from the polar regions melts. Students will do experiments in buoyancy and water density...
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Graphic
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Why Earth Is Warming

For Students 9th - 10th
Over more than a century, the global average temperature warmed 1.5F (0.8C). Learn the science of why this has happened, and what the future holds.
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Unit Plan
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Global Climate Change: Research Explorer

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore scientific data relating to the atmosphere, oceans, areas covered by ice, and living organisms in all these domains. Interpret past and present climate data to predict future climate change and its possible effects.
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Interactive
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Biointeractive: Understanding Global Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will build models that explain how small changes in the Earth system's components and processes can produce measurable global effects.
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Artic Sea Ice Continues to Decline

For Students 9th - 10th
Great animation showing the transformation of Artic sea ice can be found here. Different explanations of this phenominon are also offered on this site.
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Unit Plan
University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: Arctic Warming and Greenhouse Gasses

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore how the warming of the Earth's polar regions may lead to releasing greenhouse gasses.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Oceans and Global Climate

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will describe the effect that oceans have on the global climate.
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Handout
Miami University

The Little Ice Age: Was It Big Enough to Be Global?

For Students 9th - 10th
This website discusses the devastation caused by the Little Ice Age during the 16th century. Detailed narrative provides a multitude of possible causes for the Little Ice Age.
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Website
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Global Climate Change: Cryosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine the effects climate has on the snow and ice covered cryosphere and see live data gathered from the North and South Poles.
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Lesson Plan
National Earth Science Teachers Association

Windows to the Universe: Using the Very Simple Climate Model in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through a simple online model, students learn about the relationship between average global temperature and carbon dioxide emissions while predicting temperature change over the next century.
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Article
Other

Geoscience Research Institute: The Little Ice Age

For Students 9th - 10th
This very detailed article examines the long-term climate changes throughout the world. Discusses agriculture and provides graphs and illustrations. Includes lots of scientific discussion.
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Article
Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: Antarctica Warms, Which Threatens Penguins

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the threat of climate change in the Antarctica to emperor penguins by affecting the ice sheets where penguin breeding grounds are located.
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Article
American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: International Water Facility

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what can be done to clean up the world's water sources to provide safe drinking water because at least 35% of the world does not have it available to them and only 3% of the world's water is fresh.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: The Climate Change Skeptic's Argument

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plan examines the possibility that the contemporary climate change is due to natural solar cycles. Objectives are to review the evidence of total solar irradiance, analyze data to understand the influence of solar variability, and...
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Interactive
BBC

Bbc: News: Guide to Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
The BBC offers an interactive guide to climate change, including a sliding scale depicting climate change from 1885 to 2099, animation which explores how the greenhouse effect works, and detailed diagrams exploring the carbon cycle, the...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Why I Must Speak Out About Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story of his involvement in the science of and debate over global climate change. In doing so he outlines the overwhelming evidence that change is happening and why that makes him deeply...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Climate Change: Earth's Giant Game of Tetris

For Students 9th - 10th
There's a game of Tetris happening on a global scale: The playing space is planet Earth, and all those pesky, stacking blocks represent carbon dioxide- a greenhouse gas that is piling up ever more rapidly as we burn the fossil fuels that...

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