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Topic(s): Public Health, Climate Impacts, Adaptation Strategies, Human Responses to Climate

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional

This 20-minute video, produced by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, describes adaptation strategies undertaken by several groups and nations in response to rising sea level and other aspects of climate change.

GISS Surface Temperature Analysis

Topic(s): Regional Climates, Causes of Climate Change, Measurements and Observations, Climate Data

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)

This site provides a useful set of graphical representations of mean temperature change in different land/ocean surfaces over the past 120+ years.

Daily Weather Record Breakers

Topic(s): Regional Climates, Climate Compared to Weather, Measurements and Observations

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)

This tool provides a summary of daily records broken in several weather parameters (temperature, precipitation, snow fall, snow depth), over various time intervals, in the US and globally.

Windy

Topic(s): Atmospheric Circulation, Ocean and Climate, Regional Climates, Measurements and Observations

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16), Informal Education

This is a full color, worldwide, animated weather map using GIS interface showing current and projected wind and other weather conditions for any location in the world. Data can be viewed at different spatial scales.

Clearing the Air

Topic(s): Anthropogenic Changes, Causes of Climate Change, Climate Data, Mitigation Strategies, Human Responses to Climate

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)

In this activity, students learn about the scientific evidence supporting climate change, use this information to evaluate and improve conclusions some people might draw about climate change, and participate in a role-play to negotiate solutions to climate change.

Stepping Through Climate Science

Topic(s): Climate Impacts, Mitigation Strategies, Adaptation Strategies, Human Responses to Climate

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)

In this short activity, students create a timeline of climate science over the past 200 years and gather information from a U.S. Forest Service video about mitigation and adaptation strategies undertaken by the Service to address climate change in national forests.

Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters

Topic(s): Measurements and Observations, Measuring and Modeling Climate, Extreme Weather, Public Health, Economic Impacts, Climate Impacts, Risk Management, Human Responses to Climate

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)

This set of interactive data visualizations show the weather and climate events that have had the greatest economic impact on the US from 1980 to present (updated annually).

State Electricity on Google Earth: How many solar panels would it take?

Topic(s): Mitigation Strategies, Solar Energy, Energy Use

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)

In this activity, students calculate electricity use by state and determine, using Google Earth, how much land would be required to replace all sources of electricity with solar panels.

Absorption by atmospheric gases of incoming and outgoing radiation

Topic(s): Greenhouse Effect, Global Energy Balance, Greenhouse Gases, Causes of Climate Change

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)

In this activity, students use the absorption spectra of greenhouse gases to explore the nature of the greenhouse effect.

Investigating Climate Change at a Macroscopic and Microscopic Level

Topic(s): Greenhouse Effect, Climate Feedbacks, Greenhouse Gases, Causes of Climate Change, Climate Data, Melting Ice and Permafrost

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), Informal Education

This activity uses two interactive simulations to illustrate climate change, 1) at the micro/molecular level - modeling the impact of increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere on surface temperature and 2) at the macro level - modeling changes in glacier thickness and flow as a result of rising surface temperature.

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