Teaching Climate

Topic(s): 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, Informal Education

This video is about the Rebuild by Design competition offered to address the structural and social vulnerabilities exposed by Superstorm Sandy.

Expecting the Unexpected: Abrupt Climate Change

Topic(s): Anthropogenic Changes, Causes of Climate Change, Climate Data, Climate Impacts

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

In this video scientists discuss possible rates of sea level rise, storms and resulting damage, rising temperatures and melting ice, and their collective effects on ecosystems.

Why Climate Change Makes Stronger Storms

Topic(s): Climate Compared to Weather, Extreme Weather, Climate Impacts

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

This video reviews how increasing temperatures in the Arctic are affecting the path of the jet stream, the severity of storms, and the length of individual weather events (rain, storms, drought).

A guide to the energy of the Earth

Topic(s): Global Energy Balance, Solar Radiation, Climate System, Energy Use

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

This animated video outlines Earth's energy. The video presents a progression from identifying the different energy systems to the differences between external and internal energy sources and how that energy is cycled and used.

Extreme Weather and Climate Change

Topic(s): Climate Compared to Weather, Climate Data, Extreme Weather

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

This video explores what scientists know about how changes in global climate and increasing temperatures affect different extreme weather events.

The United States of Energy

Topic(s): Usage Trends, Energy Use

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

This series of informative graphics provide a regional overview of US energy resources.

Paleotempestology Lab

Topic(s): Climate Data, Measuring and Modeling Climate

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

This activity introduces students to stratigraphic correlation and the dating of geologic materials, using coastal sediment cores that preserve a record of past hurricane activity.

Campus Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory

Topic(s): Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Measurements and Observations, Human Responses to Climate, Energy Use

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)

Students conduct a greenhouse gas emission inventory for their college or university as a required part of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment.

Ice Core Secrets Could Reveal Answers to Global Warming

Topic(s): Atmospheric Composition, Causes of Climate Change, Measurements and Observations, Proxy Data, Measuring and Modeling Climate

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

This video features research conducted at University of Colorado's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, which studies isotopes of hydrogen trapped in ice cores to understand climate changes in the past.

Modeling Our Climate

Topic(s): Climate System, Global Climate Modeling, Measuring and Modeling Climate, Process of Science, Nature of Climate Science

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

This video is simple in its appearance, but it contains a wealth of relevant information about global climate models.

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