those climates to today's climate. The second video discusses how chemical information encoded in the shells of ancient ocean organisms are used to infer a record of ocean temperatures stretching back ...

estimates of SWE. This illustrates projected warming and potential snow loss. Projected decreases in snowpack across montane western regions in the upper-right plot are primarily the result of project ...

strengths: - Introduction to the study of phenology: how organisms respond to the changes in seasons - Involves field work, collecting data and modeling - The importance of solar insolation in driving ...

and climate change in Colorado. They describe how the pine beetle attacks healthy trees and how, in warmer and drier conditions, trees are less able to expel beetles with their moisture-laden resin. M ...

sure to point out that diagrams are NOT to scale in the season animation. In middle school, can be used in a climate unit or a unit on cycles of Earth. Would also fit in a unit on the water cycle. Hig ...

not provided. Instructors could project the graphs from a tablet or other device to see graphs in color without needing to print them. ...

tool to observe changes. Use this tool along with the resource "Graphing the Extent of Sea Ice in the Arctic and Antarctic" from Windows to the Universe [link for "Compare Images of Arctic Sea Ice Ex ...

the Greenland ice sheet. The Extreme Ice Survey time-lapse video clips (links to these clips are in the Resources section) may be useful in conveying the magnitude of the Greenland ice sheet and its o ...

systems are presented in the video. Students will need to have an understanding of feedback loops in order to fully understand the visuals of feedback loops shown in the video. Students will also need ...

assumptions used as the basis for those parameters. Anything below these parameters will result in a lower "Reality Check" score beneath the graph. These lower parameters could be useful as the basis ...