This article highlights lessons and activities for elementary students about heat, insulation, and how animals and people stay warm in cold environments.

This article includes lessons that elementary teachers can use to build the foundations of climate literacy while meeting elementary science standards. Lessons are paired with literacy activities as well.

This article describes daily life and work at the IceCube telescope at the South Pole, Antarctica, and links to informational text about them. Versions are available for students in grades K-1, 2-3 and 4-5. Related science and literacy activities are included.

This article discusses explicitly teaching and assessing listening comprehension skills in the elementary grades and provides templates for classroom use.

This article features children's literature about mammals and the mammals that live in the polar regions.

This article describes a number of creative projects that incorporate art and literacy skills into a science unit on biomes and ecosystems.

Get ready to add this simple activity about moon phases for kids to your space theme lesson plans this season.

We will have the students use many travel websites to gather information about New York City. Each website will offer data about pricing, activities, and travel options that the students can choose from. Examples that we gave are Travelocity, Expedia, or the Indianapolis Airport website. Using the different sources could cause a debate about pricing among students. Each website offers different pricing and deals that students can choose.

In this podcast, learn how to address climate misconceptions and avoid the fear of climate change by using activities that inspire and empower students.

This article describes the importance of teaching students the strategy of note taking and includes a template for use with elementary students.

This article discusses a strategy to help elementary students organize information while doing research.

This article features children's literature about erosion, glaciers, earthquakes, and volcanoes for use in the elementary classroom.

This resource includes the first part of a 2-week activity designed to teach Social-Emotional Learning and build relationships in the classroom through gamification. In the first part of the lesson, we will describe the process and recall information that students can expand on. They will get to do the first trial in groups similar to the activities/game they will be participating in the following week. The second week involves putting social-emotional learning into action through a week long of group-activities, aiming towards a common goal.

This nonfiction article, written for students in grades 4-5, explores lichens: a partnership between an alga and a fungus. Modified versions are available for students in younger grades.

In this lesson students will learn about evaporation, fossil fuels, greenhouse gases, and the greenhouse effect. Patterns in nautre are discussed, including what is happening over time and why we should care.

NGSS: 5-ESS2-1, 5-ESS3-1

Time: 55 minutes - 1 hour

Materials: laminated patterns in nature photos (photos included), plastic cups, rulers, Sharpies

It is a wonderful opportunity if you have access to a greenhouse. Students usually love working in the greenhouse and there are numerous ways to incorporate greenhouse activities into the curriculum. This is especially true for science, mathematics and vocational skills.
This webpage is a narrative of some of the activities students and staff worked on when we first adopted our greenhouse. Included are learning activities for high school students in a "life skills" program. A few related handouts are included as attached files.

This article describes how the lifestyle of Alaska's Inupiat people have changed over time, and the new challenges they now face as a result of a changing climate. Versions are available for students in grades K-1, 2-3 and 4-5. Related science and literacy activities are included.

This issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, explores how the Inuit of northern Canada, Inupiat of arctic Alaska, and Sami of northern Europe survive in a harsh environment. Instructional resources introduce students to these groups and their cultures.

This article assembles free resources from the Peoples of the Arctic issue of the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears cyberzine into a unit outline based on the 5E learning cycle framework. Outlines are provided for Grades K-2 and 3-5.