STUDENT ACTIVITY - 1st -- TXThis is a distance-learning lesson students can complete at home.Students will gather evidence that the wind is moving by creating windsocks.This activity was created by Out Teach (out-teach.org), a nonprofit providing outdoor experiential learning to transform Science education for students in under-served communities. .

This is a full color, worldwide, animated weather map using GIS interface showing current and projected wind and other weather conditions for any location in the world. Data can be viewed at different spatial scales.

SYNOPSIS: This lesson asks students to consider how their communities would look and feel with and without green spaces.

SCIENTIST NOTES: The lesson accentuates the benefits of having green spaces vis-a-vis not having them in their community. We recommend this lesson for students to explore the benefits green spaces have on ecosystem health, mental health, and physical health. Students can also explore the maps to gain skills in urban planning. All the materials have been properly cited, and this lesson has passed our credibility process.

POSITIVES:
-Students have agency over their learning when conducting their own research.
-This can be integrated into an ELA class, as students will be reading informational text when conducting their own research.
-This can be integrated into an art class, as students will be drawing multiple maps.

ADDITIONAL PREREQUISITES:
-This is lesson 4 of 6 in our 3rd-5th grade Green Spaces unit.
-It may be helpful to have a mostly blank map of the school campus or community for students to use.
-Students should have some prior experience conducting research. This lesson uses Kiddle, a kid-friendly search engine.

DIFFERENTIATION:
-You may need to preselect resources for some students who need scaffolding when conducting research.
-Some students may need a blank map of the school campus or community. Other students may wish to draw their maps from scratch using blank paper.
-Some students may prefer to draw, type, or use text-to-speech while taking notes.

This video and accompanying article describe the work of 2 scientists on Greenland's Petermann Glacier, who are attempting to collect data from beneath the glacier to determine if the temperature of the ocean water under the glacier is playing a role in the glacier's rapid retreat.

This video segment examines the issue of climate change from the perspective of Native Americans. The video segment was adapted from a student video produced at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas.

A Practical Guide for Midwestern Landowners

Short Description:
This is a book for private woodland owners in the Midwest that want to be stewards of their woods. This book is designed to help woodland owners identify goals for their property and work with a professional forester to choose the management practices that will help meet those goals.

Long Description:
This is a book for private woodland owners in the Midwest that want to be stewards of their woods. This book is designed to help woodland owners identify goals for their property and work with a professional forester to choose the management practices that will help meet those goals. This revised third edition of Woodland Stewardship builds upon previous successful editions. The book provides and overview of woodland stewardship and forest management practices and includes new or expanded chapters on forest health, agroforestry, and climate change for woodland owners.

Word Count: 110620

ISBN: 978-1-946135-61-2

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A workbook with student practice problems and concepts that accompanies OA textbook Chemistry and the Environment.

Thermometers similar to modern mercury instruments were invented in the 1600s, and people began to measure air temperatures almost immediately. The longest continuous record of average monthly temperatures extends from 1659 to the present for an area in central England.
A few other places hold intermittent records almost as old, but more widespread and regular temperature measurements did not become common until the 1880s. A temperature record spanning 100-300 years may seem like a large data set, although it is only a small fraction of Earth's history. The instrumental record is, however, long enough to reveal a trend, which has been called by various names: climate change, global warming, climate chaos, or "global weirding."
Student materials for this exercise include a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with data on historical sunspot cycles, the instrumental temperature record, and carbon dioxide concentrations through time. A separate file holds student instructions and questions. The exercise is divided into three parts.
Part I introduces the concepts of energy from the Sun and global temperature anomalies. Students create and format a chart of temperature anomalies and compare it with both a graph of temperature values and a graph of sunspot cycles. This section also illustrates how to make a chart on one worksheet using data on another worksheet.
In Part II, students work with greenhouse gas data. After a quick look at the history of climate science, students study CO2 concentrations obtained from ice cores and, more recently, direct measurements. They calculate rates of change, compare CO2 and methane, and try to relate temperature changes to changes in insolation, sunspot activity, and CO2.
Part III involves visiting the NASA Climate Time Machine. This website contains four sets of images illustrating historical sea ice, temperature and CO2 changes and projections of future sea level changes. After answering several questions about the images, students write a short essay assessing the evidence for anthropogenic climate change.

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This simulation provides scenarios for exploring the principles of climate dynamics from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Interconnections among climate issues, public stakeholders, and the governance spheres are investigated through creative simulations designed to help students understand international climate change negotiations.

GEO 133, titled "World Regional Geography," is a comprehensive 3-credit online course that delves into the physical and cultural geography of the world's major regions. Suitable for students looking to fulfill requirements in Social and Behavioral Sciences, this course enhances understanding of global and historical awareness through a detailed exploration of the earth's climatic, vegetation, and landform features, alongside cultural aspects like ethnicity, religion, and economic systems. Throughout the 16-week semester, the course is divided into thematic weeks, each focusing on different geographical regions—from Europe and Russia to Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Students engage with interactive elements such as map reading, identification of thematic data, and tools like Google Earth, enhancing their ability to analyze and compare cultural and physical landscapes globally. Assessments are varied, including quizzes, discussions, and a mid-term exam, all aimed at fostering a deeper understanding of world geography and the dynamics of regional differences and interactions. The course is accessible through the a learning management system platform and requires consistent internet access for successful participation and completion.

This is a series of NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite images taken over a 10 year period, 2000-2010, showing the extent of deforestation in the State of Rondonia in western Brazil over that period of time.

SYNOPSIS: This lesson features powerful imagery from the climate crisis. Students choose one photograph and write an ekphrastic poem about that photograph.

SCIENTIST NOTES: This lesson introduces students to social-emotional learning and how to use ekphrastic poetry to write about an artwork. It also contains photography depicting impacts of pollution, environmental degradation, and the climate crisis for students to analyze, share their thoughts, and communicate their climate solutions. This lesson has satisfied the science review process, and it is recommended for teaching.

POSITIVES:
-This lesson features stunning images of the impacts of the climate crisis as well as climate solutions.
-There is a sense of mystery because students will write their poems before knowing the context of their chosen photograph.

ADDITIONAL PREREQUISITES:
-Before teaching the lesson, type your students' names into Slide 19 of the Student Slideshow.
-Make sure that all students have viewing access to the Student Slideshow and editing access to the Student Poetry Anthology Slideshow.
-Students may feel anger, anxiety, sadness, despair, fear, hope, or even excitement when viewing these pictures, writing their poems, or hearing their classmates’ poems. These emotions are normal and natural. Make sure students know it is OK to feel and express these emotions when confronted with the realities of the climate crisis.
-The information available for each image is varied. There is a lot of information about some of the photographs, but others do not have that much information.

DIFFERENTIATION:
-Be sensitive to the emotions of your students. Some of these photographs may remind them of personal loss or some other specific connection to the climate crisis.
-Students can use the "Ideas For Your Poem" on the slideshow if they have trouble starting.
-Some students may know of other climate-related photos that they'd like to use. Encourage students to use those photographs if they make sense in the context of the lesson.

This visualization focuses on public acceptance of climate science. The set of interactive maps illustrates public opinion on a variety of climate beliefs, risk perceptions, and policy support. The data is from the Yale Project on Climate Communication.

This high-resolution narrated video shows levels and movements of CO2 globally through the course of a year.

Students will create their own glacier, and explore their effect on the land, modeling how they melt, how they move, and erode and deposit sediment. Students will be able to determine and describe isostatic rebound, create and identify common glacial landforms such as moraines, drumlins, erratics, kettle lakes, and striations, and explain the role glaciers play in landscape development and how climate change may impact glaciers and their related features.

Learn about the environmental conditions of Death Valley in this video from Nature.

This resource is based on the 2015 Climate Change Summit, and it shares both environmental and social concerns related to climate change. This is an activity for elementary school students to role-play. It is a UN-style discussion of climate change from different cultures and perspectives around the world.

Students investigate how much greenhouse gas (carbon dioxide and methane) their family releases into the atmosphere each year and relate it to climate change. To address this, students use the Environmental Protection Agency Personal Emissions Calculator to estimate their family's greenhouse gas emissions and to think about how their family could reduce those emissions.

This activity allows students to make El Nino in a container, but it might work better as a teacher demonstration. The introduction and information provided describe El Nino, its processes and its effects on weather elsewhere in the world.