Students will read a scientific article related to global climate change and hurricanes and write a summary of the article.
Students will read a scientific article related to global climate change and write a summary of the article.
In this activity, students will explore NOAA's Coral Reef Watch: Satellite Coral Bleaching Monitoring Datasets page in Google Earth. The referenced "Engage" activity can be found at (http://climateclassroom.org/lesson/engage-hs-3/).
In this activity, students will utilize tools from the Department of Energy's, U.S. Energy Information Administration, EIA site to explore energy production and consumption in the US and in their state.
Students will use the stories in episodes one and two of "Years of Living Dangerously" to better understand the long term impacts deforestation and longer wildfire seasons have on the environment.
In this activity, students explore the difference between brittle and ductile deformation in everyday materials and how material behavior is influenced by temperature and the rate of deformation. Then, they will apply this knowledge to rocks deformation and how this is related to the occurrrence of earthquakes and mountain ranges at plate boundaries.
This resource provides background information on how a sundial works and includes directions for making a basic paper sundial.
This animation illustrates the effects on buildings built on differing types of land after the arrival of P, S, and surface waves.
This experiment illustrates the basic properties of a watershed: how water flows from higher elevations to lower elevations, and how watersheds are interconnected. The students will understand how the placement of buildings, roads, and parking lots can be important to watershed runoff, and how careless use and disposal of harmful contaminants can have a serious effect on downstream watershed denizens.
There are a number of hands-on and interactive scientific lesson plans, each inviting students to learn what is known about earthquakes, earthquake hazards, and hazards preparedness. Prior to the start of lessons, it is important to assess student's knowledge of earthquakes and hazards. The pre-assessment activity creates a means to do this. Lessons 1-6 target physical processes related to earthquakes. Lessons 7-11 focus on hazards associated with earthquakes and mitigation strategies. Lesson 12 provides a unique means for reinforcing concepts covered during previous lessons.
Students will investigate how fast the Greenland ice sheet is melting and what the possible impacts of the change are. This activity is part of "Investigating Your World With My World GIS," a set of activities designed for use with My World GIS software (which can be downloaded at www.natgeoed/myworldgis) to help students learn key content and practice spatial problem solving.
This resource is a colorful inforgraphic stating the facts about the earth's resources and what is needed of it to feed the population in the future.
This toolkit was designed to support educators in teaching the fundamental scientific concepts of climate change.
In this lesson, students work in groups, plotting carbon dioxide concentrations over time on overheads and estimating the rate of change over five years. Stacked together, the overheads for the whole class show an increase of carbon dioxide over five years and annual variation driven by photosynthesis.
This video animates the rise of Carbon Dioxide over the decades.
This activity will allow students to use several web tools to analyze CO2 concentrations from sites around the globe.
The goal of the assignment is to increase student awareness of the various sources of energy consumption and of the impact that each one of them is having on the atmospheric carbon budget. Students will use an online carbon footprint calculator to determine their footprint during one specific week.
In this tutorial students will learn how Earth moves through space, how seasons are caused by tilt of Earth’s axis, and why different latitude zones have different average temperatures.
In this tutorial students will learn about water in the atmosphere. Students will learn about cloud types, cloud formation, humidity and dewpoint, and much more.
In this tutorial students will learn to distinguish between weather and climate. Students will also describe the main factors affecting regional climate and compare climate variations due to natural and human causes.