In this activity, 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.

Students perform a lab to explore how the color of materials at Earth's surface affect the amount of warming. Topics covered include developing a hypothesis, collecting data, and making interpretations to explain why dark-colored materials become hotter.

This multi-lesson resource set for high school is focused on environmental justice and social science. It asks students to consider inequality and justice in the context of their own lives and the environment through a series of both hands-on and research-focused activities. This unit supports student understanding of the multiple, complex issues and perspectives of environmental justice in the United States. In part one, students complete a group activity under the pressures of environmental discrimination and then evaluate their success. The second and third part uses short videos to explain a real life example of overcoming environmental discrimination to encourage students to reflect on the complexity of these issues. In the final part, students debate a solution to an issue using assigned roles in a town hall platform.

This multi-lesson set is focused on environmental justice and social science. It asks students to consider inequality and justice in the context of their own lives and the environment through a series of both hands-on and research-focused activities.

This lesson set serves as an introduction to the topic of environmental justice via a tag game, flash card activity and discussion, and an art lesson for students to create their own environmental justice heroes. It includes thorough background materials and activities to think about before leading the lesson, including cultural adaptation notes and social and emotional support suggestions.

This two-part resource from GreenVision Energy broadly introduces students to vocabulary like renewable energy, load and demand response, carbon capture and sequestration, and environmental justice. Students will learn about the challenges of integrating renewable energy into the current energy grid system and navigating energy equity concepts caused by climate change through podcasts, worksheets, and discussion questions.

Pumping Iron is a station-based game meant to illustrate the movement of dust throughout different parts of the Earth system and the effects on the climate when iron-rich dust settles into the ocean and stimulates phytoplankton growth, which then leads to the drawdown of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. In this game, players collect nutrients that phytoplankton need to live as they follow the dust moving throughout the Earth system - the player with the most nutrients wins!

This activity tells a story through the eyes of a salmon, as told by Indigenous tribes of the Northwest. It celebrates traditional knowledge and how humans can think about the natural world through the view point of salmon.

In this activity, students connect art and science by creating a drawing and conceptual model of the thermohaline circulation. Students get to create drawings to understand how water moves in the ocean and the impacts of that movement.

This lesson provides a demonstration and lesson focused on ocean currents. The demonstration of how cold water and warm water interact is a strong learning tool for the topic.