In this lab students will see how variable weekly weather can be, and you will consider the factors that make it so changeable. Students will also download and analyze temperature and precipitation patterns for one city over a number of years and see how climate patterns emerge from many years worth of weather data.

In this problem-based learning (PBL) activity, students take on the role of a student research scientist and explore the role of solar energy in determining climate, focusing on the urban heat island effect. Students conduct research and compare temperatures between two cities, and determine the factors that are responsible for the difference exhibited between them. The lesson is supported by teacher notes, answer key, glossary and an appendix with information about using PBL in the classroom. This is the third of three activities in Investigating the Climate System: Energy, a Balancing Act, and serves as an authentic assessment for all three modules.

Students collect weather data over several days or weeks, graph temperature data, and compare the temperature data collected with long-term climate averages from where they live. Understanding the difference between weather and climate and interpreting local weather data are important first steps to understanding larger-scale global climate changes.

In this unit, students will develop an understanding of climate change and how it is different from climate variability. Students will read articles and access data, maps, and graphs of trends. They will also view several short video clips and learn about and compare climate models. Students will see how climate impacts life and life impacts climate in both short and long timescales.

In this activity students will learn about global wild weather. Students should be able to define and describe the evidence of climate change; describe "extreme" weather events and define climate variability; and investigate climate models and predictions for future climate and weather patterns, especially temperature changes and explain the concept of "anomaly".

In this lesson, students explore recent changes in the Arctic's climate that have been observed and documented by indigenous Arctic residents. Students watch a video, take notes, and create a concept map. Students also examine historical weather data for an Arctic community.

In this lesson, students investigate weather patterns and climate and how they are changing. Students conduct research about an assigned weather topic and create an interactive project/presentation that can be used to teach classmates about a weather topic.

In this lesson, students will describe a climate model and what it measures and investigate the overall weather trend that has emerged since the 1970s.

In this activity, students will explore their location's climate in order to inform a pen pal of the type of weather he or she can expect to experience during an upcoming visit. Students will generate and explore a variety of graphs, charts, and map images and interpret them to develop your understanding of normal climate.

In this activity students will explore the weather in their area. Students will generate graphs, maps, and charts to develop an understanding of climate.

In this activity students will learn to analyze climographs to learn about the climate of an area.

In this activity, students will generate and view maps of average annual temperature and precipitation.

Students will review global visualizations of incoming sunlight and surface temperature and discuss seasonal change.

This video helps students understand the difference between weather and climate and discuss how global climate is monitored by taking the ocean's temperature.

This interactive resource allows students to click on a state and examine the different climates.

In this unit, students engage in lessons where they develop some basic background knowledge about climate change drawing on research from scientists around the world. They will begin to develop key ideas that climate change is happening, we can observe it and it is a global problem. Students also begin to understand some of the lines of climate change evidence. More fundamentally, Unit 1 explores the relationship between climate and life, helping students explain the difference between weather and climate.

In this tutorial students will learn about weather and how the atmosphere and oceans affect weather.

In this activity, students will interpret climographs and analyze weather and climate conditions for various stations in the United States. They will then use climographs and precipitation maps to determine whether each location is wetter than normal, about normal, or drier than normal. Drought will also be studied and discussed.

This multimedia resource, part of the NC Science Now series, describes how climatologists at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville analyze weather data to explain the unusual winter of 2013-2014 and to forecast how a warming planet will affect climate in the future. The difference between weather and climate is discussed. Components of this resource include a video and a related blog article. Links to these components are provided on the page under the heading "UNC-TV Media."