and Instructional Storyline - there are specific recommendations for how to use this activity in the classroom. Could be helpful to split the lessons into classroom activities and at-home activities. ...

website houses concise summaries on trends in temperature, precipitation, storms, floods, and droughts and are linked with associated graphs and data that can viewed online and downloaded. It would be ...

upload information using the data entry or GLOBE Observer apps. Students can collect that data in offline mode and upload it when they get back to internet access. Information for teachers as well as ...

studies course. This video is best suited for middle school and higher but may also be used in an upper elementary class. This video illustrates the importance of shorefast ice to buffer a coastline f ...

Earth's energy budget. Nice intro to a module on the energy budget and why the sun is important in the climate system. The related URL ([ provides helpful background info for the instructor and/or stu ...

the investigation of fossils from the Burgess Shale with the possible role of methane hydrates in the Cambrian Explosion, which was the source of those fossils. Connection to climate change could be s ...

images or an online interactive tool and do some simple arithmetic to understand the differences in the leaves from different sites. This activity gives an example of how scientists themselves conduct ...

includes a great deal of current data from multiple scientific and governmental sources presented in an effective manner (16 high quality references). The first three minutes show the negative impacts ...

data as needed. Comments from expert scientist: Includes interviews with two leading scientists in the field and provides visuals of the sources of the data (sediment cores, satellite measurements, ph ...

material provided with this video. Although this video focuses on the bark beetle problem in Washington state, the topic is applicable throughout the Western US. This resource is available on vimeo - ...