All Resources
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1900 Air PollutionExamine 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 |
Document |
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.
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5-12 |
Interactive |
Arctic Climate Perspectives This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, describes how global climate change is affecting Barrow, Alaska.
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6-9 |
Video |
Arctic Climate SystemLearn 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 |
Video |
Arctic HazeIn 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 |
Video |
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.
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6-12 |
Interactive |
Biological InvadersThis video segment from Evolution: "Extinction!" shows the impact of invasive species on native ecosystems. |
9-12 |
Video |
Carbon-Fiber Car of the FutureIn 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 |
Video |
Climate and Human EvolutionIn this video segment adapted from NOVA: "Becoming Human," learn how the analysis of rock layers and ocean sediments supports the theory that rapid climate change may have jump-started human evolution two million years ago. |
6-12 |
Video |
Climate ChangeThis 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 |
Video |
Climate Change Adaptation and MitigationLearn about climate change adaptation and mitigation in this animated video produced by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. |
6-12 |
Video |
Climate Change Impacts Alaska GlaciersThis 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 |
Video |
Climate Wisconsin: BirkebeinerExperience the largest cross-country ski race in North America and learn how it is being impacted by climate change in this multimedia video produced by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. |
6-12 |
Video |
Climate Wisconsin: FarmingLearn how a family farm in Wisconsin functions and how it is impacted by climate change in this multimedia video produced by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. |
6-12 |
Video |
Climate Wisconsin: ForestryLearn how a family farm in Wisconsin functions and how it is impacted by climate change in this multimedia video produced by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. |
6-12 |
Video |
Climate Wisconsin: Ice CoverIce cover data and long term trends for Lake Mendota and Lake Mendota in Madison, WI can be explored in this interactive resource produced by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. |
6-12 |
Interactive |
Climate Wisconsin: Ice FishingDiscover how climate change is impacting ice fishing in Wisconsin in this multimedia video produced by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. |
6-12 |
Video |
Climate Wisconsin: PhenologyExplore phenology and its relation to climate change research in this multimedia video resource produced by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. |
6-12 |
Video |
Climate Wisconsin: Great Lakes ShippingLearn how shipping on the Great Lakes is being impacted by climate change in this multimedia video produced by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. |
6-12 |
Video |
Climate Wisconsin: SugaringIn this multimedia video produced by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board, learn how maple syrup is produced and how its production may be impacted by climate change. |
6-12 |
Video |
Climate Wisconsin: Temperature ChangeInvestigate observed and projected average annual temperature change in Wisconsin in this interactive resource produced by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. |
6-12 |
Interactive |
Cloud TypesThis interactive resource, adapted from NASA's S'COOL Project Tutorial, explains
how you can classify and identify various types of clouds. |
3-12 |
Interactive |
CO2 Concentrations at Mauna Loa Observatory, HawaiʻiThis 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 |
Document |
Coral KidIn 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 |
Video |
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.
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9-12 |
Video |
DesertsNot all deserts are the same. This still collage produced for Teachers' Domain features views of different deserts around the world. |
K-8 |
Image |
Diatoms Measure Climate ChangeIn this video segment adapted from NOVA: "Becoming Human," learn what the analysis of fossilized microscopic algae in sediment tells us about rapid changes in climate in Africa's past. |
6-12 |
Video |
Documenting ChangeIn this video segment from New York Voices, botanists study plants to inform agriculture and climate change. |
3-12 |
Video |
Earth in Motion: SeasonsThis 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 |
Interactive |
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.
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6-12 |
Interactive |
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.
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6-12 |
Video |
Earth System: Ice and Global WarmingThis 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 |
Video |
The Effect of Sea Surface Temperature on HurricanesIn this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, scientists examine the link between rising sea surface temperature and more intense hurricanes. |
9-12 |
Video |
Examine Global Surface CurrentsThis visualization from McDougal Littell/TERC visualizes the relationship between global wind directions and the direction of ocean surface currents. |
6-12 |
Interactive |
Exploring Environmental ChangeStudents 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 |
Climate Wisconsin: Extreme HeatLearn how extreme heat—which is projected to occur more frequently in our changing climate—disproportionately affects the urban elderly and the poor in this multimedia video produced by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. |
6-12 |
Video |
Climate Wisconsin: Fly FishingLearn how fly fishing and trout are impacted by Wisconsin’s changing climate in this multimedia video produced by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. |
6-12 |
Video |
Geology of North Dakota BadlandsSee 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 |
Video |
Global Climate Change: The Effects of Global WarmingStudents 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 EffectStudents 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?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 EffectThis video segment from Race to Save the Planet: "Only One Atmosphere" discusses the greenhouse effect and global warming. |
9-12 |
Video |
Global Warming and The Greenhouse EffectThis video excerpt from Race to Save the Planet discusses the greenhouse effect and global warming. |
6-12 |
Video |
Global Warming: Beyond Fossil FuelsMartin 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 |
Document |
Global Warming: Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse EffectThis video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE demonstrates the physical property of carbon dioxide that causes the greenhouse effect. |
6-12 |
Video |
Global Warming: Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse EffectThis video segment adapted from NOVA/FRONTLINE demonstrates the physical property of carbon dioxide that causes the greenhouse effect. |
6-12 |
Video |
Global Warming: Graphs Tell the StoryExamine 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 |
Document |
Global Warming: The Physics of the Greenhouse EffectThis 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 |
Video |
Great Ocean Conveyor Belt: Part IThis image from GRID-Arendal depicts the major circulation pattern of the ocean, illustrating interactions between temperature, salinity, and depth. |
9-12 |
Image |
Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2: A Record of Climate ChangeUsing 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 |
Interactive |
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 |
Video |
How The Ohio River Was FormedThis 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 |
Video |
Hurricane Katrina: Possible CausesThis 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 |
Document |
Infrared GalleryHow 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 |
Interactive |
Infrared: More Than Your Eyes Can SeeIn 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 |
Video |
Melting IceIn 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 |
Mitigating Climate Change in China and EthiopiaIn this video segment adapted from "Hope in a Changing Climate," learn how an environmentally devastated ecosystem has been restored, benefiting both the local economy and global efforts to fight climate change. |
6-12 |
Video |
Mountain of Ice: If the Ice MeltsThis 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 |
Interactive |
Native Student Filmmakers Focus on Climate ChangeIn this video segment adapted from Haskell Indian Nations University, student filmmakers explain why it is important to them to make a video about climate change. |
6-12 |
Video |
Natural Climate Change in Djibouti, AfricaIn 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 |
Video |
Observations of Climate ChangeIn 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 PatternsThis 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 |
Video |
Overstepping Mother Earth's BoundariesHave we overstepped Mother Earth's boundaries? What are the consequences? In this video segment adapted from Haskell Indian Nations University, hear a Native perspective on our relationship with the natural environment. |
3-12 |
Video |
Pennsylvania Energy: BiomassMany 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 |
Video |
Permian-Triassic ExtinctionIn this video segment from Evolution: "Extinction!", geologist Peter Ward discusses evidence for a Permian-Triassic mass extinction. |
9-12 |
Video |
Polar Bears and Climate ChangeIn this video from the World Wildlife Fund, learn how rising temperatures in the southern Arctic could lead to polar bear extinction. |
6-12 |
Video |
Salmon Move into Deeper WatersFor generations, Native Americans have depended on their observations of nature for their survival. In this video segment adapted from Northwest Indian College, an Elder recalls how fishermen suspected the water was warming after observing salmon retreating to deeper waters. |
6-12 |
Video |
Salmon Population DepletedIn this video segment adapted from Northwest Indian College, Lummi Elders explain how a decline in the availability of salmon reflects a threatened environment that must in some way be protected. |
6-12 |
Video |
Seasons on EarthStudents 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 |
Sense of Smell Leads Salmon HomeThis video segment adapted from Northwest Indian College reveals how Native American life and knowledge is connected to natural cycles. |
6-12 |
Video |
Shipwrecks Reveal Ocean CurrentsIn 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 |
Video |
Solar MagnetismThis 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 |
Video |
Steve MacLean: ConservationistIn 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 |
Video |
Stories in the IceTake 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 |
Document |
Students Measure Changes in Lake Ice and SnowIn 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 |
Video |
Studying Global Warming in Biosphere 2In 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 |
Video |
A Subsistence Culture Impacted by Climate ChangeThis 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 |
Video |
Taking the Earth's TemperatureThis 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 |
Video |
The Difference Between Weather and ClimateSee how ice cover data from Lake Mendota in Madison, WI can explain the difference between weather and climate in this video produced by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. |
6-12 |
Video |
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.
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K-8 |
Interactive |
Tropical Ice Cores Measure ClimateIn this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, glaciologist Lonnie Thompson shows how glacial ice cores from the tropics track centuries of climate change. |
6-8 |
Video |
Uncertainty in Climate Change ModelingLearn why trout are important indicators in Wisconsin’s changing climate, and why the uncertainty of global climate models complicates predictions about their survival, in this video produced by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. |
6-12 |
Video |
An Unpredictable EnvironmentIn 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 |
Video |
Volcanic Eruptions and HazardsThis 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 |
Interactive |
Warmer Water Kills Salmon EggsIn this video segment adapted from Northwest Indian College, a Native American Elder explains her observation that a temperature rise of just 3°F is killing salmon eggs. |
6-12 |
Video |
WetlandsIn this video segment adapted from Haskell Indian Nations University, learn about the spiritual role and ecological function of the wetlands adjacent to the university's campus. |
6-12 |
Video |
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 |
Video |
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 |
Interactive |
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 |
Interactive |
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 |
Video |
Witnessing Environmental ChangesIn this video segment adapted from Haskell Indian Nations University, meet Elders who describe dramatic changes that they have witnessed in their local environments. |
3-12 |
Video |
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