Teaching Climate

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 visualization depicts the global water cycle. It includes how human water use affects where water is stored, how it moves, and how clean it is.

In this activity, students demonstrate their knowledge of connections between natural systems and the built environment in which they live.

Through the five lessons in this module, students will explore relationships between carbon dioxide, ocean pH, and aragonite saturation state. By examining these parameters using interactive graphs and models, students can predict whether ocean conditions support the growth and survival of shell-building marine life, both now and in the future.

This self-paced online resource from NOAA explores the relationship between water quality and estuarine ecology through a series of 5 levels that range from one to two 45 minute class periods.

This resource uses datasets, videos, text, and discussions to support an understanding of patterns in megafires under climate change conditions. This resource provides an excellent scientific overview of the wildfires impacting the Western United States. It includes expert interviews, data, and model creation that all involve sound science. It looks at cause and effect to consider the future of wildfires.

In this activity, students analyze and interpret data on the reproduction of moss campion plants to explore how increasing temperatures could impact these specialized tundra plants.

This activity is the last part in a series called 'Our Hungry Planet.' Students will use their understanding of food systems to choose a topic related to food system issues at different scales (classroom, school, city, extracurricular groups) and then design a solution.

In this interactive lesson, students will use kinesthetic techniques to model Earth's orbit around the Sun for a year. In this activity students will understand the astronomical meaning of an earth year, and learn the difference between a rotation and an orbit.

In this resource, students will investigate impacts of a warming climate on sugar maple and paper birch, two trees of special importance to the Lake Superior Ojibwe. Making maple sugar and harvesting birch bark are cultural practices that occur in the spring. As students work through this unit, they will consider how climate change is affecting the sustainability of these tree species and the activities and traditions they may enjoy.