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Links on this page are for activities and materials dealing with climate change, global warming, and environmental policy.
This National Academy of Sciences booklet presents recommendations from the National Academies' many expert reports on climate change in an easy-to-read format. The 2008 edition of Understanding and Responding to Climate Change, includes an expanded section on impacts and updated figures and graphics. Downloadable in pdf format.
The URL is: http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/climate_change...
This 43-page booklet from the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) at Columbia University, is available in it's entirety online.
The URL is: http://cred.columbia.edu/guide/
Facing the Future has released a comprehensive service-learning resource for climate change. The Climate Change Action Project Database includes more than 25 ready-to-use action projects that will prepare students to understand and take action on climate change. The online database provides:
· Meaningful projects to fulfill graduation requirements · Ideas for transforming classroom learning on into action · Project details and contact information needed to get started · Options for projects that take place both on and off school grounds Thanks to funding from the McKibben Merner Family Foundation, these service-learning projects are accessible free at The URL is: http://www.facingthefuture.org/ServiceLearning/Cli...
Follow along with polar explorer Will Steger as he and a group of young people embark on Expedition Copenhagen, a mission to bring the youth voice to the international climate negotiations in December. First give your students the basic knowledge they need to follow the news coverage of the climate negotiations and the skills they need to make their opinions heard. Then send your students’ statements to the youth delegates headed to Copenhagen and follow the Youth Delegation’s multimedia blogs. Download Citizen Climate (linked below), free standards-linked high school lesson plans from the Will Steger Foundation. These lesson plans build on the WSF’s original six lesson plans on the basics of global warming. The new lessons cover the carbon cycle, target levels for atmospheric levels of greenhouse gasses, cap and trade, carbon tax, new technologies, concerns of developed and developing countries, and how to formulate position statements.
The URL is: http://willstegerfoundation.org/index.php?option=c...
The Yale University peer-reviewed bimonthly Journal of Industrial Ecology, is making available a series of free, downloadable articles on the greenhouse gas emissions from corn ethanol.
The URL is: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/aboutus/topics/...
The Geological Society of America (GSA) is inviting the public to measure gravestones to gain data on air pollution and climate change since the Industrial Revolution. Because white marble gravestones are highly susceptible to erosion, and bear dates, the stones can help scientists infer a region's climate and pollution history. Learn how to participate and log your data:
The URL is: http://www.goearthtrek.org/Gravestones/Gravestones...
October 19-28, 2009 ~ Online
This EcoRes Forum, "Climate Change and You: Putting a Face on Global Warming," is the final in the series of Internet-based discussions. Join the discussion on this important issue. The URL is: http://www.eco-res.org/register.html
US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Web site for formal and informal educators providing news and information on global and climate change issues.
The URL is: http://www.globalchange.gov/resources/educators/to...
Deep Green highlights ideas and solutions that lower carbon energy use and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from experts all over the world.
The URL is: http://www.deepgreenfilms.com/
Seal the Deal! is the United Nations-led campaign to promote a definitive agreement on climate change. This powerful campaign provides a framework for UN advocacy on climate change in 2009. Seal the Deal! is designed to mobilize everyone to encourage the governments of the world to agree on a deal that will protect people and the planet, and promote a global green economy when they meet to negotiate a new climate change agreement in Copenhagen this December.
The URL is: http://www.sealthedeal2009.org
This National Geographic News article, by Anne Minard, discusses astrophysicists study of the activity, or inactivity of the sun and its potential impact on the Earth's climate.
The URL is: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/09...
Tom Harten, a teacher with the CHESPAX environmental education program of the Calvert County Public Schools in Maryland, will be traveling to the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, July 15-18, as a part of the PolarTREC program, a project that partners teachers with scientists conducting polar research in both the arctic and in Antarctica. Mr. Harten will be a participant in a project that will investigate the impact of climate change on seabirds nesting on these remote islands, a project funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation. Mr. Harten will be posting journal entries from the field as video and audio podcasts and answering questions from interested students and teachers.
The URL is: http://www.polartrec.com/seabird-ecology-in-the-be...
"How Green is My Town?" is a grassroots effort to empower citizens and local decision makers to address the issues of climate change, sustainability, and environmental health at the local level. The Web site functions as a national clearinghouse of the best programs, ideas, and policies, as well as product solutions where appropriate.
The URL is: http://www.howgreenismytown.org/
Population Connection announces the release of its new secondary-level curriculum, Earth Matters: Studies for Our Global Future, 3rd edition on CD-ROM. This new edition is completely updated and greatly expanded to include 32 readings and 43 innovative teaching activities to help students understand the complexities of population pressures, climate change, natural resource use, wildlife endangerment, distribution of wealth and food, urbanization, public health, gender equity, economic progress, and how these issues are interrelated.
The URL is: http://www.populationeducation.org
August 19, 2009 ~ Online
The 2009 Will Steger Foundation Summer Institute for Climate Change Education will focus on the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen and unveil a brand new curriculum on international climate solutions for grades 9-12. The institute will highlight the critical need for international cooperation on climate change solutions, and equip educators with the tools necessary to empower student learning and leadership on the topic. The URL is: http://www.globalwarming101.com/
The Climate Science Literacy Guide (http://climateliteracynow.org) serves as a framework for understanding and communicating about climate science. Points in the guide can serve as discussion starters or launching points for scientific inquiry. The guide can also serve educators who teach climate science principles as a way to meet learning standards in their science curriculum.
Contribute Resources to the Climate Science Literacy Online Catalog - The Climate Literacy Network is developing an online catalog of resources that will be reviewed and annotated by scientists and educators. Please submit your online resources here: The URL is: http://serc.carleton.edu/climatechange/contribute_...
Using this online activity students can analyze the spatial patterns of daily temperature extremes, examine the relationship of coasts, latitude, and altitude to temperature extremes across the USA in a hands-on, GIS-based environment.
The URL is: http://blogs.esri.com/Info/blogs/gisedcom/archive/...
The US EPA offers several listservs for various audiences that provide new information on new climate changes resources and current news and strategies.
The URL is: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/news_listservs.ht...
The Canary Project is an organization that uses visual art to communicate the impact of climate change. The organization started in 2006 photographing landscapes that are greatly effected by climate change and have since expanded the project to include other artists and media.
The URL is: http://www.canary-project.org/index.php
This climate change guide is for teachers to help students (grades 7-12) investigate the evidence and causes of climate change, examine its impacts on ecosystems, explore and discuss varied social and cultural perspectives, and get involved helping to solve this local and global predicament. The guide includes 12 engaging activities suitable for classes in English and language arts, environmental education, math, science, art, and social studies, and the activities are tied to Wisconsin’s model academic standards. Preview online, order free copies, or download the pdf.
The URL is: http://www.dnr.wi.gov/eek/teacher/climatechangegui...
Facing the Future is offering Climate Change: Connections and Solutions, a set of two-week interdisciplinary curriculum units for students in grades 6-8 and grades 9-12, in pdf format. Aligned with national science and social studies standards, the lessons begin by building a foundation of understanding climate change and ends with students being able to communicate complex and interconnected issues related to climate change.
The URL is: http://www.facingthefuture.org/Curriculum/Download...
February 27 - March 2, 2009
Power Shift 2009 is a national youth summit, presented by the Energy Action Coalition, that will bring more than 10,000 young people to Washington, DC, during this time of transformational climate and energy policy. The URL is: http://powershift09.org
WGBH Lab and Teachers' Domain along with FRONTLINE, are announcing the open call for youth (ages 13-18), to produce video segments on climate change for "Youth Voices," a series of three informative webinars for student filmmakers. Youth are challenged to create a video short on a story of how climate change is impacting their communities.
The URL is: http://lab.wgbh.org/open-call/frontline-heat-and-y...
The Center for American Progress has just created a new interactive map on the human toll of climate change. This map provides scientific information on a variety of climate change threats, compiled from multiple sources, and plots this information geographically to show areas of concern. Contributions of scientific research to the database are invited. Just click on "Add a Point" and follow the directions provided.
The URL is: http://maps.scienceprogress.org/climate/index.php
Climate Change From Pole to Pole: Biology Investigations offers case studies and background information on how to teach the science of climate change. The six researched and field-tested activities building on four content chapters, provide students the opportunity to solve real-life scientific problems using guiding questions, graphs and data tables, short reading assignments, and independent research.
The URL is: http://www.nsta.org/store/product_detail.aspx?id=1...
From the Will Steger Foundation’s Global Warming 101 initiative, Arctic Community Curriculum focuses on community, solutions, and positive messages of hope and action in response to the challenge of climate change. Based on the idea that we are all members of the community of Planet Earth, the curriculum looks in detail at a specific area, namely the Arctic, to help us appreciate the meaning of community. The Arctic Community Curriculum is free of charge and compliments the other educational resources available through the Web site.
The URL is: http://globalwarming101.com/
This new Web site from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is devoted to educating the public about Earth's changing climate, providing easy-to-understand information about climate change and how NASA studies it. Some features include a continuous snapshot of the condition of Earth's ice sheets, global average temperatures, sea level change, and concentrations of greenhouse gases.
The URL is: http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov
The EcoResearch Media Watch on Climate Change provides a continuous update of media coverage from 150 news media sites on climate change and related issues. The latest addition to Media Watch is "Knowledge Planet," a convergence of geographic information, Internet technology, and social change, using automated content analysis to extract geospatial context and build a geotagged knowledge base.
The URL is: http://www.ecoresearch.net/climate/
The EoE Collection is anchored by an electronic version of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Nobel Prize-winning reports. It also includes articles by climate experts, biographies of individuals who have made important contributions to climate science and policy, a timeline of key events in the history of climate science and policy, a climate glossary, and much more. Scientists, educators, environmental professionals, and concerned citizens should find the collection to be an invaluable resource.
EoE seeks to expand the collection with articles on a wide range of climate-related topics written for a large and diverse global audience. The URL is: http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_Change_%28c...
NASA, May 14, 2008, press release "NASA Study Links Earth Impacts to Human-Caused Climate Change," announces a NASA-led study showing impact on range of Earth's natural systems by human-caused climate change.
Read the press release: The URL is: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/may/HQ_08127_...
Tales for young children (ages 5-8) such as Where are the igloos of Iglooville? and Tears from the other side of the world are told by Professor Sneeze, Reckless, and Breakneck explaining in easy terms, the Kyoto protocol and the problems linked to global warming in the Arctic region. Appropriate for children ages 5-8.
The URL is: http://www.educapoles.org/index.php?/educational_m...
Exploratorium site links to real-time NOAA imagery and graphs on atmosphere, hydrosphere, global effects, etc. Students can explore scientific data relating to the atmosphere, the oceans, areas covered by ice and snow, and the living organisms in all these domains.
The URL is: http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/index.html
Site provides information on global warming, suggestions for conserving energy, environmental health news items, info on buying eco-friendly, and more.
The URL is: http://www.help-stop-global-warming.com
By Lisa Heinzerling and Frank Ackerman, Harvard Law and Policy Review, volume 1, no. 2, pp.331-362. Heinzerling and Ackerman discuss the role law and economics have in public policy and how the consequences and probabilities of damages of climate change requires rethinking of aspects of both.
The URL is: http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/policy_research/Warm...
September 24, 2007, New York. Chair summary of the United Nations framework convention on climate change to build momentum and advance the global agenda on climate change talks at the Kyoto renegotiations in Bali, in December 2007.
Listen to Podcasts >> The URL is: http://unfccc.int/2860.php
The UNFCC Convention on Climate Change presents definitional information on climate change, the Climate Change Information Kit (IUC) and outlines the international response to the problem (available for download in PDF or Rich Text format).
The URL is: http://www.unfccc.de/resource/iuckit/index.html
The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change, by Charles Wohlforth, explores global warming from the perspectives of a group of scientists studying climate change in Alaska and a traditional Eskimo whale-hunting party using traditional knowledge to deal with the shifting landscape. Published by North Point Press.
The URL is: http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=8-0865...
The Pew Center On Global Climate Change provides a wide range of reports, policy analysis, and perspectives to the climate change debate in key areas such as economic and environmental impacts, and equity issues.
The URL is: http://www.pewclimate.org/
The EcoRes Forum is a new series of free, online e-conferences focusing on the ethical, political, and sociocultural aspects of climate change. The first e-conference, "From Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism: Making the Shift" two-week dialogue will evaluate the current status - what is working (and what isn't) around the globe. Second in the series "Environmental (In)Justice: Sources, Symptoms, and Solutions" November 2-15, 2007, focusing on the central role that social and environmental justice issues must occupy
The URL is: http://www.eco-res.org
Will Steger Foundation Institute for Climate Change Education, an interactive, cross-disciplinary workshop on Global Warming. Visual evidence of Global Warming will be presented from his Arctic and Antarctic expeditions.
The URL is: http://www.globalwarming101.com
The Information Guide, presents "a comprehensive work for geology, geography, and environmental science students studying climate change." Online text offers detailed chapters covering the causes of climate change, the empirical study of climate, climate modeling, paleoclimatic change, and contemporary climate change.
The URL is: http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/Resources/gcc/index.html
Selective list of up-to-date online resources related to global climate change.
The URL is: http://www.pacinst.org/topics/water_and_sustainabi...
Fact sheet from Ecological Society of America. "How is Earth's climate changing? What will global climate change do? What is science doing about global climate change?"
The URL is: http://www.esa.org/education/edupdfs/globalclimate...
University of the Arctic "Introduction to the Circumpolar World" module for students (grades 9-12) addressing climate change and potential environmental changes in the Arctic.
The URL is: http://www.uarctic.org/bcs/BCS100/bcs100_m6.pdf
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) set of teaching materials geared towards students and teachers in grades 9-12. Individual exercises are adaptable to different grade levels and engage students in an exploration of the impacts of global climate change on ecosystems and natural resources. In pdf format.
The URL is: http://www.climatehotmap.org/curriculum/climate_ch...
Curriculum guide designed to bring global warming science and solutions home to students in the Southeast.
The URL is: hhttp://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_war...
This October 3, 2007, Edutopia article "Truth and Consequences: Teaching Global Warming Doesn't Have to Spell 'Fear'," by Kevin Sweeney, discusses approaches to take when teaching children about global warming. Sweeney was to speak to a fifth-grade classroom about climate change and heard concern raised by other parents over instilling fear in these students. Sweeney received advice from friends to "focus less on the details and more on a framework." Read the article for practical advice.
The URL is: http://www.edutopia.org/global-warming-fear
Curriculum guide, for grades 9-12, produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists, is designed to bring global warming science and solutions home to students in the Southeast. A set of hard copies of all materials-including the report, curriculum guide, and state-specific supplementary materials can be purchased for $25.
The URL is: mailto:ssi@ucsusa.org
Dedicated to promoting public policy that addresses global climate change through reductions in carbon dioxide and other emissions, renewable energy, energy conservation and ending deforestation.
The URL is: http://www.climateark.org/
The Education for Sustainability Course at London South Bank University online discussion on climate change in 2006. The Web site discussion was linked to the EFS Programme conference on the theme of "Climate Change and the Challenge for Education".
The URL is: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/efs/climatechange/index.shtm...
Deadline: September 14, 2007
Earth Day Network is working with high schools to win global warming victories nationwide. EDN members are eligible to become Climate Change Educators and receive stipends of $500 for their work to help their high schools reach a global warming victory through policy and action. The URL is: http://earthday.net/programs/teachers/climatechang...
Climate Ark's Climate Change and Global Warming Portal. Brief commentary, analysis and links by Dr. Glen Barry.
The URL is: http://www.climateark.org/blog/
Harmony Foundation offers innovative, experiential learning programs to participants from across Canada and around the world through the Institute for Environmental Values Education.
The URL is: http://www.harmonyfdn.ca/
This informative BBC Weather Center site discusses the many issues around climate change including: evidence, impact, adaptation, policies, and a links and chat page. Site also links to related information on weather, science and nature, health and culture, and more.
The URL is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/
The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies convened a group of leaders to discuss why the scientific consensus on climate change has not produced action in the U.S. commensurate with the threat. The synthesis of their findings and recommendations for action are in the book "Americans and Climate Change." Order or free download from the Web site.
The URL is: http://www.environment.yale.edu/climate/
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