Climate Change Education
Activities for Conceptualizing Climate and Climate Change - This website hosted by Purdue University provides a list of teacher lesson plans and student resources for grade 7-12 teachers and students with a goal to explore the complex interface between science and society that forms the basis of management decisions related to climate change issues.
A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change - Created for a younger age group, this website from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) teaches the basic causes of climate change and its effects on modern society.
CLEAN - Committed to Climate and Energy Education - The CLEAN project, a part of the National Science Digital Library, provides a reviewed collection of resources to aid students' understanding of the core ideas in climate and energy science, coupled with the tools to enable an online community to share and discuss teaching about climate and energy science.
NASA’s Climate Kids - This website brings climate science to life with fun games, interactive features and exciting articles.
NASA’s JPL Climate Change Lessons - This collection of climate change lessons and activities for grades K-12 is aligned with Next Generation Science and Common Core Math Standards and incorporates NASA missions and science along with current events and research.
NASA’s JPL Climate Change Lessons - This website contains reviewed resources for teaching about climate and energy.
SKYSCI Climate Change - This web page from UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) delivers a broad overview of the evidence of global warming, causes and effects of climate change, and short video clips about climate (including paleoclimate, climate change and modeling climate).
Stanford University Climate Change Education - This curriculum integrates concepts from the earth, life, and physical sciences as well as the most current data on climate systems to help students understand the phenomena of climate change, the justification for these phenomena, and why these phenomena are both scientifically and socially important.
The Changing Climate: Climate Projections - In this lesson from the Peggy Notebaert Museum in Chicago, IL, students will create a classroom web to show how living processes, non-living things, earth processes, and economics can be affected by changes in climate. Students will also work in groups to classify their ideas about how climate change will affect the Chicago area.
Visualizing Changes in the Great Lakes - In this activity from Ohio Sea Grant, students will construct a web of things that may increase or decrease as a result of a changing climate in the Great Lakes region. After completing this activity, students will be able to list and explain many potential impacts of climate change and discuss various interpretations of the possible impacts of climate change.