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Climate Change: All Resources

Resource Grade Level Media Type
1900 Air Pollution  

1900 Air Pollution
Examine this graph from FRONTLINE/NOVA: "What's Up with the Weather?" Web site to see dramatic increases in three greenhouse gases over the last two hundred years.

9-12 HTML Document
Antarctic Ecosystem  

Antarctic Ecosystem
In contrast with its largely lifeless interior, the Antarctic coastal marine environment supports a vibrant and diverse ecosystem. Explore the region's living bounty in this interactive activity adapted from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

5-12 Flash Interactive
Arctic Climate Perspectives  

Arctic Climate Perspectives
This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, describes how global climate change is affecting Barrow, Alaska.

6-9 QuickTime Video
Arctic Climate System  

Arctic Climate System
Learn how the Arctic is a part of a global climate system in this video segment adapted from the National Film Board of Canada.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Arctic Haze  

Arctic Haze
In this video segment adapted from KUAC, find out why the horizon in Alaska is sometimes shrouded in pollution and what it means for climate change in the Arctic.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Arctic Sea Ice Satellite Observations  

Arctic Sea Ice Satellite Observations
In this interactive activity produced for Teachers' Domain, learn how Arctic sea ice has changed over the past 25 years in terms of maximum winter extent, concentration, and the timing of breakup each spring.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Biological Invaders  

Biological Invaders
This video segment from Evolution: "Extinction!" shows the impact of invasive species on native ecosystems.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Carbon-Fiber Car of the Future  

Carbon-Fiber Car of the Future
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, find out how cars made of a material stronger than steel and half the weight can help combat climate change.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Climate Change  

Climate Change
This video segment adapted from NOVA explains the difference between weather and climate and features groundbreaking analysis revealing that Earth's climate has changed much faster than previously believed.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Climate Change Impacts Alaska Glaciers  

Climate Change Impacts Alaska Glaciers
This video adapted from KTOO takes a look at Earth's warming and cooling cycles and the current atypical trend of warming that is impacting the glaciers in Alaska's Inside Passage.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Cloud Types  

Cloud Types
This interactive resource, adapted from NASA's S'COOL Project Tutorial, explains how you can classify and identify various types of clouds.

3-12 Flash Interactive
CO<sub>2</sub> Concentrations at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawai&#699;i  

CO2 Concentrations at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaiʻi
This resource, adapted from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, provides a graph of monthly average carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration from 1958 to 2000 at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaiʻi.

6-12 PDF Document
Coral Kid  

Coral Kid
In this video segment, ZOOM guest Cassie takes us on a tour of the coral reef near her home in Key Largo, Florida, and points out some of its unique features.

K-8 QuickTime Video
Dengue Virus Invades a Cell  

Dengue Virus Invades a Cell
In this visualization adapted from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, discover the role that dengue viral proteins play in a human cell as the virus prepares to replicate.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Deserts  

Deserts
Not all deserts are the same. This still collage produced for Teachers' Domain features views of different deserts around the world.

K-8 Flash Image
Documenting Change  

Documenting Change
In this video segment from New York Voices, botanists study plants to inform agriculture and climate change.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Earth in Motion: Seasons  

Earth in Motion: Seasons
This interactive activity from the Adler Planetarium explains the "reasons for the seasons." Featured is a game in which Earth must be properly placed in its orbit in order to send Max, the host, to different parts of the world during particular seasons.

3-8 Flash Interactive
Earth’s Albedo and Global Warming  

Earth’s Albedo and Global Warming
In this interactive activity adapted from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, learn about Earth's albedo (the ratio of reflected vs. incident solar radiation), how pollution alters albedo, and how ice-albedo feedback may accelerate global warming.

6-12 HTML Interactive
Earth's Cryosphere: The Arctic  

Earth's Cryosphere: The Arctic
In this video segment adapted from NASA, take a tour of the cryosphere in North America and the Arctic using satellite imagery.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Earth System: Ice and Global Warming  

Earth System: Ice and Global Warming
This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explains ice's role in the Earth system, highlighting the delicate balance that could be upset with a continued rise in temperature due to climate change.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Examine Global Surface Currents  

Examine Global Surface Currents
This visualization from McDougal Littell/TERC visualizes the relationship between global wind directions and the direction of ocean surface currents.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Exploring Environmental Change  

Exploring Environmental Change
Students explore the connections that can exist in a natural environment, and examine how changes to the environment, particularly those caused by human activity, can affect those connections.

6-9 Lesson Plan
Geology of North Dakota Badlands  

Geology of North Dakota Badlands
See how the geology of the North Dakota badlands has changed over time in this video segment from NatureScene, featuring the landscape at Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

3-8 QuickTime Video
Global Climate Change: The Effects of Global Warming  

Global Climate Change: The Effects of Global Warming
Students conduct an experiment to determine CO2 levels in four different gases, examine evidence of global warming in our environment, and consider their own role in contributing to global warming.

9-12 Lesson Plan
Global Climate Change: Understanding the Greenhouse Effect  

Global Climate Change: Understanding the Greenhouse Effect
Students study past climate change, explore the effect of greenhouse gases on Earth's atmosphere today, and consider human impact on global warming.

6-12 Lesson Plan
Global Warming?  

Global Warming?
Students examine the issue of global warming. They calculate how much carbon dioxide all the machines they use produce in one day.

9-12 Lesson Plan
Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect  

Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect
This video segment from Race to Save the Planet: "Only One Atmosphere" discusses the greenhouse effect and global warming.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Global Warming and The Greenhouse Effect  

Global Warming and The Greenhouse Effect
This video excerpt from Race to Save the Planet discusses the greenhouse effect and global warming.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Global Warming: Beyond Fossil Fuels  

Global Warming: Beyond Fossil Fuels
Martin Hoffert, professor of physics at New York University, discusses global warming and alternative energies in this interview from the NOVA/FRONTLINE Web site.

6-12 HTML Document
Global Warming: Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect  

Global Warming: Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect
This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE demonstrates the physical property of carbon dioxide that causes the greenhouse effect.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Global Warming: Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect  

Global Warming: Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect
This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE demonstrates the physical property of carbon dioxide that causes the greenhouse effect.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Global Warming: Graphs Tell the Story  

Global Warming: Graphs Tell the Story
Examine graphs from the NOVA/FRONTLINE Web site to see dramatic changes in the temperature of Earth's surface and in the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

9-12 HTML Document
Global Warming: The Physics of the Greenhouse Effect  

Global Warming: The Physics of the Greenhouse Effect
This video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE examines the greenhouse effect, its role in keeping Earth habitable, and the industrial changes that have led to an increase in the planet's average temperature.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Great Ocean Conveyor Belt: Part I  

Great Ocean Conveyor Belt: Part I
This image from GRID-Arendal depicts the major circulation pattern of the ocean, illustrating interactions between temperature, salinity, and depth.

9-12 GIF Image
Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2: A Record of Climate Change  

Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2: A Record of Climate Change
Using images and graphs, this interactive resource illustrates scientists' efforts to study Earth's climatic history for the last 250,000 years by drilling into the Greenland Ice Sheet and examining ice cores. Adapted from the Wright Center for Science Education, Tufts University.

9-12 Flash Interactive
How Did Life Emerge Here?  

How Did Life Emerge Here?
This video segment adapted from NOVA describes the emergence of life on the islands of Hawaiʻi from a barren volcanic platform under the ocean waves to the rich explosion of life that covers the many climate zones of the islands today.

3-12 QuickTime Video
How The Ohio River Was Formed  

How The Ohio River Was Formed
This video segment adapted from KET's Where the River Bends demonstrates how climate change and glacier movement during the Ice Ages destroyed the old Teays River and created the Ohio River, Kentucky's northern border.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Hurricane Katrina: Possible Causes  

Hurricane Katrina: Possible Causes
This media-rich essay from NOVA scienceNow explores new research into hurricanes that may help explain Katrina's devastating impact and discusses the possibility that global warming played a role.

6-12 HTML Document
Infrared Gallery  

Infrared Gallery
How would your world look if you saw heat instead of light? In this interactive resource produced for Teachers' Domain, see what familiar objects look like through an infrared camera and watch infrared videos of geysers, mudpots, and hot springs.

3-12 Flash Interactive
Infrared: More Than Your Eyes Can See  

Infrared: More Than Your Eyes Can See
In this video segment adapted from NASA, astronomer Michelle Thaller introduces the world of infrared light and demonstrates how infrared cameras allow us to see more than what the naked eye can perceive.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Melting Ice  

Melting Ice
In this media-rich lesson, students explore the role that ice plays on Earth, the factors causing it to melt, and the local and global consequences of melting ice.

6-12 Lesson Plan
Mountain of Ice: If the Ice Melts  

Mountain of Ice: If the Ice Melts
This interactive resource adapted from NOVA Online features a collection of images that show what would happen to selected coastlines around the world if the Antarctic Ice Sheet melted.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Natural Climate Change in Djibouti, Africa  

Natural Climate Change in Djibouti, Africa
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, animations are used to illustrate how change in the tilt of Earth's axis produces dramatic climate change over thousands of years.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Observations of Climate Change  

Observations of Climate Change
In this media-rich activity, students learn how data gathered through surveys with local residents and data collected by remote satellites are complementary tools that help deepen our understanding of the effects of climate change in the Arctic and elsewhere.

6-12 Student Activity
Ocean Temperatures and Climate Patterns  

Ocean Temperatures and Climate Patterns
This animation from The New Media Studio illustrates how the atmosphere and ocean together shape wind, current, and rainfall patterns in the tropical Pacific.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Pennsylvania Energy: Biomass  

Pennsylvania Energy: Biomass
Many potential, renewable sources of biomass energy exist in Pennsylvania, especially on farms. This video profiles various facilities that make biomass energy, including biodiesel fuel. Biomass energy is important to the economy and the food supply.

6-8 QuickTime Video
Permian-Triassic Extinction  

Permian-Triassic Extinction
In this video segment from Evolution: "Extinction!", geologist Peter Ward discusses evidence for a Permian-Triassic mass extinction.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Polar Bears and Climate Change  

Polar Bears and Climate Change
In this video from the World Wildlife Fund, learn how rising temperatures in the southern Arctic could lead to polar bear extinction.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Seasons on Earth  

Seasons on Earth
Students study satellite data and explore an example of long-term climate change to learn about the seasons, changes in climate, and the role of Earth’s tilted axis.

6-12 Lesson Plan
Shipwrecks Reveal Ocean Currents  

Shipwrecks Reveal Ocean Currents
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, a detailed map showing the trajectories of abandoned ships from the late 1800's is used to reveal the routes of surface currents in the Atlantic Ocean. Animations illustrate the role played by ocean currents in the colonization of North America.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Solar Magnetism  

Solar Magnetism
This video segment adapted from NOVA describes how the Sun's magnetism can have an effect here on Earth, from dramatic auroras to a mini-Ice Age in the 1600s.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Steve MacLean: Conservationist  

Steve MacLean: Conservationist
In this video profile produced for Teachers' Domain, meet conservationist Steve MacLean, an Iñupiaq from Barrow, Alaska, who works to preserve the health of the Bering Sea ecosystem.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Stories in the Ice  

Stories in the Ice
Take a journey back through time, using ice cores to learn about the Earth's climatic history. From the FRONTLINE/NOVA: "What's Up with the Weather?" Web site

9-12 HTML Document
Students Measure Changes in Lake Ice and Snow  

Students Measure Changes in Lake Ice and Snow
In this video adapted from KUAC-TV and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, students provide field measurements that researchers need in order to understand how lakes in Alaska are changing as a result of climate change.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Studying Global Warming in Biosphere 2  

Studying Global Warming in Biosphere 2
In this What's Up in the Environment? video segment, an international team of scientists in Arizona's Biosphere 2 laboratory studies the impact of increased carbon dioxide emissions and how that might affect our future global environment.

5-9 QuickTime Video
A Subsistence Culture Impacted by Climate Change  

A Subsistence Culture Impacted by Climate Change
This video adapted from the Arctic Athabaskan Council explains how warmer temperatures in the Arctic are transforming the ecosystem and threatening the subsistence culture of the Athabaskan people.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Taking the Earth's Temperature  

Taking the Earth's Temperature
This video segment from FRONTLINE/NOVA: "What's Up with the Weather?" depicts research efforts to record Earth's past and present temperatures shifts.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Tracking Polar Bears  

Tracking Polar Bears
In this interactive activity adapted from the USGS Alaska Science Center, track the movements of a polar bear as it migrates across the changing Arctic sea ice and compare the paths of four different polar bears.

K-8 Flash Interactive
An Unpredictable Environment  

An Unpredictable Environment
In this video segment adapted from the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Inuit observers describe how their traditional understanding of weather patterns is being challenged by unpredictable weather behaviors.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Volcanic Eruptions and Hazards  

Volcanic Eruptions and Hazards
This interactive resource adapted from the National Park Service illustrates the difference between explosive and effusive volcanic eruptions as well as the hazards that can result, including lahars, tsunamis, and lava flows.

6-12 HTML Interactive
What Causes the Gulf Stream?  

What Causes the Gulf Stream?
This video segment adapted from NOVA visualizes how Earth's rotation and uneven heating from the Sun cause prevailing winds and influence ocean surface currents. An animation and infrared satellite image illustrate the shape and direction of the Gulf Stream System in the Atlantic Ocean.

6-12 QuickTime Video
What Killed the Dinosaurs?  

What Killed the Dinosaurs?
In this Evolution Web feature, find clues to one of life's most compelling mysteries, and discover how evidence can support a variety of hypotheses.

6-8 Shockwave Interactive
What Killed the Dinosaurs?  

What Killed the Dinosaurs?
This Evolution Web feature uses animations to explore how evidence can support a variety of hypotheses surrounding the mystery behind the extinction of the dinosaurs.

3-12 Shockwave Interactive
Who Owns the Water of the Great Lakes?  

Who Owns the Water of the Great Lakes?
In this video segment from Planet H20: Water World, experts and teens inside and outside the Great Lakes watershed provide different perspectives on sharing the water from one of the largest bodies of fresh water in the world.

5-12 QuickTime Video