Climate Change Resources for Teachers

Climate Change Resources for Teachers

This list can be found on the Elkhorn Slough Website within the Education link.

Estuaries and coastal areas are particularly vulnerable to climate variability and change. This list includes resources for help in learning and teaching about local and global climate change issues.

Global Climate Change- NASA’s Eyes on the Earth: This is a superb resource for anyone interested in climate change. This science-based site includes interactive visualization tools, data and analysis, and links to research. http://climate.nasa.gov/

Climate Kids: NASA’s Eyes on the Earth – Grades 4-6. Eyes on Earth. This site is hosts engaging on-line interactive games, activities, images, video, and content.
http://climate.nasa.gov/kids/

EPA’s Climate Change Kids Site- Learn the basics, see the impacts, think like a scientist, be part of the solution, and take a climate change expedition. http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html

How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming. This site provides a “non-scary, action-oriented, and inspiring look at how scientists do their work, what they are discovering about global warming, and how kids are already learning about this through Citizen Science. Kids can make a difference!” http://www.howweknowclimatechange.com/

Elkhorn Slough historic and projected sea levels. Visualization of sea level rise http://www.eonfusion.com/uploaded/263/13400313_07elkhornslough_ushires.pdf

Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect- GEMS, grades 6-8, Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley. This guide’s hands-on activities and experiments investigate a crucial environmental issue and help students see environmental problems from different points of view. Students also play simulation games and hold a “world conference” on global warming. http://www.lhsgems.org/index.html

The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) – Grades 6-12

Inquiry-based exploration of evidence for periodic melting of ice and resulting sea level rise: glacial, geologic, fossil, and isotopic. Students learn/demonstrate understanding of impact of sea level change on flora, fauna, and human society. Lesson plans and resource links are included. http://www.teachingboxes.org/seaLevel/index.jsp

January 18, 2012