Students observe cloud type and coverage, as well as other weather conditions over a five-day period and correlate these observations. Students make and test predictions using these observations.

Students observe, sketch, and describe clouds on their own before learning to identify cloud types by comparing photos of different clouds to their sketches.

This activity supports educators in the use of the activities that accompany the GLOBE Program's Earth System Poster 'Exploring Connections in Year 2007'. Students identify global patterns and connections in environmental data that include soil moisture, insolation, surface temperature, cloud fraction, precipitation, world topography/bathymetry, aerosol optical thickness, and biosphere (from different times of the year) with the goal of recognizing patterns and trends in global data sets.

What would the Earth be without greenhouse gases? This animation will explore the role of the greenhouse effect, how it works, and the impact of human activities on it.

This Summary for teachers is inspired by the IPCC's Special Report on Climate Change and Land.

This resource is a teacher-friendly version of the Summary for Policymakers of the IPCC report. Useful infographics and ideas for short class activities are provided, as well a glossary and a list of educational resources.

This Summary for teachers is inspired by the IPCC's Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. This resource is a teacher-friendly version of the Summary for Policymakers of the IPCC report. Useful infographics and ideas for short class activities are provided, as well a glossary and a list of educational resources.

This lesson invites young students to inquire about phase changes, about what happens as water changes into ice and as ice changes into water, observing ice melting and freezing under a variety of conditions.

This is the first of nine lessons in the Visualizing and Understanding the Science of Climate Change website. This lesson is an introduction to Earth's climate and covers key principles regarding Earth's unique climate, atmosphere, and regional and temporal climate differences.

The Office for Climate Education (OCE) launches an innovative online course: an opportunity for teachers all over the world to learn how to teach about climate change online and for free.

This eClip video is part of NASA's Our World series and introduces students to the basics of cloud formation.

This 3-minute eClip video from Nasa's Our World series introduces students to the unique properties of water.

This data viewing tool from NOAA offers nearly instant access to dozens of datasets about Earth through an engaging interface. Users can select data categories from atmosphere, ocean, land, cryosphere, and climate and drill down from there into more detailed categories.

In this visualization, users click to drop a raindrop anywhere in the contiguous United States and watch where it ends up. The visualization teaches users about the relationship between precipitation and freshwater in the US.

A computer simulator that allows students to adjust the air temperature and dew point to see what type of precipitation would fall to the ground.

Urban areas are getting hotter, a phenomenon known as the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. Our multimedia animation offers an engaging way to explore what UHI is, why it occurs, and what can be done to mitigate its impact.

Children test how cornstarch and glitter in water move when disturbed. They compare their observations with videos of Jupiter's and Earth's storm movements.

This activity introduces the concept of weather. Students follow the first stages of the scientific process to investigate the four factors that contribute to making weather what it is.

Children create a wind streamer out of common materials and use it to determine the wind's direction.

This is the first teacher's guide book of the collection “The climate in our hands”, a series of volumes on the topic of climate change. The aim of this guide book is to support teachers in carrying out a range of activities on climate change and the ocean and cryosphere in their classrooms, and targets students from the upper end of primary school to the end of lower-secondary school (ages 9 to 15).