Eyewitness Documentary of Changes in the Arctic's Climate
(View Complete Item Description)This video documents the scope of changes in the Arctic, focusing on the impacts of warming and climate change on the indigenous Inuit population.
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Faces of Climate Change: Introduction
(View Complete Item Description)This is the first of three short videos showcasing the dramatic changes in Alaska's marine ecosystems. This introduction to the impacts of climate change in Alaska includes interviews with Alaska Natives, commentary by scientists, and footage from Alaska's Arctic.
Faces of Climate Change: Life on the Ice
(View Complete Item Description)This video is the second of three short videos showcasing the dramatic changes in Alaska's marine ecosystems. The video highlights the marine mammals and birds and how they depend on Arctic sea ice, as well as questions about how these animals will cope in the face of climate change.
Feeling the Sting of Climate Change
(View Complete Item Description)This video on phenology of plants and bees discusses the MODIS satellite finding that springtime greening is happening one half-day earlier each year and correlates this to bee pollination field studies.
Global And Great Lakes Climate Change
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity students work with data to analyze local and global temperature anomaly data to look for warming trends. The activity focuses on the Great Lakes area.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Global Climate Change
(View Complete Item Description)Paul Andersen explains how the climate on the earth is affected by the amount of solar radiation and the greenhouse affect. The addition of anthropogenic greenhouse gases has led to global warming which is impacting humans on the planet. A discussion of the greenhouse effect and greenhouse gases (including water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and CFCs) is included. Countries have committed to reduce through both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement.
Material Type: Lecture
A Global Issue: The Impacts of Climate Change
(View Complete Item Description)This is lesson five of a 9-lesson module. Activity explores the effects of climate change on different parts of the Earth system and on human well-being: polar regions, coral reefs, disease vectors, extreme weather, and biodiversity.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
How Do Ice Cores Allow Researchers to Look at Global Climate Change?
(View Complete Item Description)In this video, a PhD Student from the University of Maine explains how ice cores are used to study global climate change.
How does climate change affect biodiversity?
(View Complete Item Description)Effects of climate change on biodiversity. Video by California Academy of Sciences. Created by California Academy of Sciences.
Material Type: Lesson
How the World Can Tackle Climate Change
(View Complete Item Description)This short video reviews how nations and individuals can work together to reduce the emission of CO2. It discusses strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (energy conservation, renewable energies, change in energy use) and the role that government can play in this process.
Human Impacts on Climate Change: What will happen and what can we do about it?
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students explore how human activities will continue to impact Antarctic ice, discuss human contributions to climate change, and investigate what we can do to stop/reverse these negative effects.
Material Type: Lesson
The Impact of Ocean Acidification on Marine Ecosystems
(View Complete Item Description)The main content objectives covered in this unit are the phenomena of global warming, carbon cycle, ocean acidification, and its impact on plants, animals, and the marine ecosystem. The main purpose of this is to provide the reader with the basic knowledge base about these processes and understand the main players that are responsible for them. Fossil fuel pollution by human activities is contributing to the increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. Some of the CO2 is being absorbed by the oceans. This process increases the number of free hydrogen ions in the oceans, making the ocean water more acidic. This phenomenon is called ocean acidification. When oceans become acidic, they can negatively affect the plants, living organisms such as shell-forming organisms, and other marine life. The results of this process are devastating and this unit hopes to bring students’ attention to these dangers.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
Incorporating Climate Change Into a New Forest Management Plan
(View Complete Item Description)Facing sea level rise, increasing numbers of wildfires, and encroachment of invasive species, managers of a national forest chose to integrate climate change into their new plan.
Material Type: Case Study
Increased Emissions: Climate Change, Lines of Evidence
(View Complete Item Description)This video is one of a seven, Climate Change: Lines of Evidence series, produced by the the National Research Council. It outlines and explains what evidence currently exists in support of humans playing a role in contributing to the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.
An Introduction to Global Health - Climate Change and Health (18:01)
(View Complete Item Description)Our planet is currently being challenged by dramatic changes to earth and human systems under the influence of climate change and variability. These include changes of population and environmental dynamics that impacts human health. Thus, climate change is considered the biggest threat to human health in the 21st century. Health impacts can be direct typically related to extreme weather events; indirect with linkages to climate change induced environmental alterations and damage or in relation to displacement, conflict and social disruption. This presentation provides a series of examples of changes of environmental and social determinants of health with negative or positive health impacts. These include impacts on communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases and mental health of importance in particular in vulnerable urban and rural settings as well as among sensitive community groups exposed to variations in temperature and precipitation patterns.
Material Type: Lecture
Investigating Climate Change Using Observed Temperature Data
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students download historic temperature datasets and then graph and compare with different locations. As an extension, students can download and examine data sets for other sites to compare the variability of changes at different distinct locations, and it is at this stage where learning can be individualized and very meaningful.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Investigating Climate Change at a Macroscopic and Microscopic Level
(View Complete Item Description)This activity uses two interactive simulations to illustrate climate change, 1) at the micro/molecular level - modeling the impact of increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere on surface temperature and 2) at the macro level - modeling changes in glacier thickness and flow as a result of rising surface temperature.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Jamestown SKlallam Tribe Plans for Change on the Olympic Peninsula
(View Complete Item Description)With valuable cultural and dietary assets at risk from sea level rise, this Pacific Northwest Tribe developed a plan to identify community adaptation priorities and concerns, and charted a course of action to address them.
Material Type: Case Study
Navajo Reflections on Climate Change
(View Complete Item Description)In this video segment adapted from Navajo Technical College, meet two members of the Navajo Nation, one Elder and one scientist, as they share their observations about how precipitation has changed since they were children.
Material Type: Lesson
A New Generation of Water Planners Confronts Change Along the Colorado River
(View Complete Item Description)Reduced flows and increased demand for Colorado River water represent a real and present danger in the West. To address the threat, water managers and modelers initiated a study to understand the system, consider options, and take action.
Material Type: Case Study