In this lesson, students will use Google Earth to explore global temperature changes. They will use Google Earth to determine how the temperature of the Earth has changed during a recent 50-58 year period. They will also explore, analyze, and interpret climate patterns of 13 different cities, and analyze differences between weather and climate patterns.

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.

Conservation organizations teamed up to document the climate vulnerability of mountain springs that support unique ecosystems. Now, the Alliance they formed facilitates restoration work to enhance habitats and improve resiliency.

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.

This lesson is designed to provide students with an overview of regional climate variations around the world and promote discussion of factors that create differences in climate around the world. This assignment provides an introduction to the complexities of the climate system by requiring each student to gather information about one region or country, then synthesize that with information provided by other students.

In this lesson, students investigate climate change and search for and evaluate evidence of change. Students will then write a scientific argument using evidence and reasoning to support claims. Students will also be able to reflect on the weaknesses in their own arguments in order to improve their argument and then respond to other arguments.

This series of videos, produced by The National Research Council, summarizes the current state of knowledge about climate change and its causes.

Students study the storms that ravaged the southeastern region of the U.S. and the Caribbean and investigate connections between climate change and extreme weather events.

Students will determine what particular variables control the region's average temperature and precipitation.

Students learn the difference between weather and climate, gather climatic data for different locations around the world, and use their data to complete a climate challenge scenario.

In this opening lab, students will become familiar with weather by recording observations about the weather conditions and the plants in their own schoolyard or neighborhood.

In this opening lab, students will become familiar with weather by recording observations about the weather conditions and the plants in their own schoolyard or neighborhood.

In this case study, students will learn about the weather and climate of New England, and Vermont in particular. Students will also learn more about the Sugar Maple tree as you observe short- and long-term trends in climate and consider the relationship between climate and the production of maple syrup, an important agricultural product loved by millions.

In this lab students will investigate the weather patterns of northwestern Vermont where the city of Burlington is located.

In this activity students will learn about temperature trends that could affect maple syrup production in Vermont.

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In this unit students will have articles to read, hands-on investigations or labs, videos, computer animations, maps, graphics, and class discussions. The combination of these experiences will help you understand the ways in which energy from the sun interacts with Earth's atmosphere, land, oceans, and biosphere (all living things) to give us weather and climate. As you work through the lessons, you will learn more about weather and climate patterns, their causes and the impacts that they have on life on Earth. You will get a sense of how the Earth's systems, such as wind and ocean currents, distribute incoming solar energy around the planet, making Earth habitable for a broad range of life.

Find areas that are predicted to change because of climate change.

GeoInquiries are designed to be fast and easy-to-use instructional resources that incorporate advanced web mapping technology. Each 15-minute activity in a collection is intended to be presented by the instructor from a single computer/projector classroom arrangement. No installation, fees, or logins are necessary to use these materials and software.

In this lab students will investigate the questions: What are the complex forces that are driving this weather and, ultimately, climate? How do they work together? Students will develop an understanding of the complexity of the interacting forces that work together to create the predictable patterns that we know as climate.

In this activity series students will learn more about global, regional, and local weather (and climate) drivers. This particular activity focuses on clouds, ways that the ocean and atmosphere combine to move moisture and heat energy around the globe, and wind and pressure.