Multimedia

In this video, learn how John Tyndall designed an experiment to reveal evidence that carbon dioxide traps heat. Teachers could use this resource to consider the role carbon dioxide plays in regulating Earth's temperature and its relationship to current trends in global warming.

This video discusses the fossil fuel fingerprint in isotopic analysis of atmospheric carbon dioxide. It does an excellent job of presenting this topic, which is too often overlooked in other discussions of the evidence for anthropogenic global warming.

This lesson contains two activities to demonstrate two consequences of burning fossil fuels: air pollution and the greenhouse effect. In the first activity, students simulate the greenhouse effect with an enclosed beaker, water, Alka Seltzer, and a light source. In the second activity, a candle produces soot on a jar to simulate air pollution. Teachers should lead a wrap-up discussion to relate the two activities to the burning of fossil fuels.

This visual shows how climate change has already caused widespread impacts and related losses and damages on human systems and altered terrestrial, freshwater, and ocean ecosystems worldwide.

This video addresses the Gulf Dead Zone, a hypoxic zone, which is an area of low oxygen that can harm marine life near the bottom of the sea. The video describes how human activity in and around the Mississippi watershed contributes to making the dead zone and what actions are being taken to mitigate the effects.

This series of videos does an excellent job introducing coral bleaching and touches upon the subject of a project that breeds super corals. It also addresses climate solutions and things that everyone can do at home to help combat climate change.

Using real data, this hands-on activity investigates different types of trees and forests as carbon sinks and stores.

This interactive resource allows users to investigate current and predicted future climate-related hazards on a nationwide scale and in specific locations.

This resource guides students through the iterative engineering design cycle to build a functional model of a drill rig that can be broken down, reassembled in Antarctica (or other cold icy regions), and then can retrieve an ice core sample.

This learning activity is a climate change musical for K-12, youth groups or faith organizations. Shine weaves together climate science and performance art into a fun and powerful story, which spans 300 million years of geological time to convey how humanity, energy, and climate are interrelated.