Visual Media: Climate Images for Effective Visual Communication
A collection of climate-related images for effective visual communication of climate-related and climate change-related topics.
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Lesson Plan: Desertification and Sustainable Land Management
As an Undergraduate Geography and Environmental Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to enable students to develop an understanding of deserts and desertification. Climate change and desertification are inextricably linked. Desertification contributes to climate change by…
Lesson Plan: Climate Denial: How Language is Used to Misinform
As a high school Humanities teacher in English or Communications, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you teach students persuasive language techniques. It focuses on language techniques used in climate communication, specifically how climate misinformation has…
Teaching Module: Teach Climate Science with the Teacher Friendly Guide To Climate Change™
A teaching module of resources and activities that accompanies ‘The Teacher-Friendly Guide™ to Climate Change’ edited by Ingrid H. H. Zabel, Don Duggan-Haas, & Robert M. Ross,the Paleontological Research Institution. This teaching module includes videos and classroom/laboratory activities on the…
Game: NASA Climate Kids
NASA Climate Kids contains a collection of online games such as Coral Bleaching, Meet the Greenhouse Gases, Play OFFSET!, Play Power Up!, Slyder: The Art of Weather, Missions to Planet Earth, Wild Weather Adventure, and Whirlwind Disaster.
Video/micro lecture: Introduction to Gender and Climate Change
A video lecture by Vibhuti Patel, SNDT Women’s University, India, titled ‘Gender and Climate Change’ that discusses gender dimensions of climate change. This lecture discusses the role of women in households and how climate change induced events such as natural…
Reading: What is Climate Literacy?
A reading by the U.S. Global Change Research Program titled ‘Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science’. This reading can be used as an introduction to the topic by teachers interested in teaching about climate literacy. The reading is…
E-learning Course: Visual Storytelling using Climate Change Data
A hands-on e-learning course to create and tell engaging stories based on climate change data by using different approaches.
Video/ Microlecture: Multi-level Impacts of Climate Change on Mental Health
A video titled ‘Mental Health Issues and Climate Change’ by Susan Clayton, The College of Wooster, that discusses the impacts of climate change on mental health. The video focuses on why it is necessary to understand and identify the impacts…
Video/Microlecture: Mental Health, Physical Health, and Climate Change
A video titled ‘Mental Health Issues and Climate Change’ by Lise Van Susteren, George Mason University, that discusses the link between climate change and mental health. The video discusses impacts of climate change on physical health such as inflamed brain…
Audio: Psychology of Climate Denial
This is an audio podcast of The Guardian on the psychology of climate science denial. This tool discusses psychological barriers and cognitive biases that determine individual responses to climate change. Students will learn about the cognitive biases that play a…
Video/Microlecture: Did Drought cause the Syrian Civil War?
A short video from the Yale Climate Communications series titled ‘Drought, Water, War, and Climate Change’ on climate change as a catalyst for crises. The video discusses how climate change potentially contributed to the drought in Syria causing large scale…
Lesson Plan: Economic Policy for ‘Green Recovery’ from the Pandemic
As an Undergraduate Economics teacher, you can use this lesson plan to teach your students how countries around the world design economic policies for a ‘green recovery’ from the economic downturn due to the COVID-19 pandemic, by reducing carbon emissions…
Lesson Plan: War in A Warming World
As an Undergraduate teacher in the Social Sciences or Environmental Studies, you can use this lesson plan to teach your students about how human induced global warming can have significant impacts on food and water security and could be a…
Lesson Plan: Coding with Python: Modeling the Ice Albedo Feedback
As an Undergraduate Earth Sciences, Mathematics teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you teach how to program in Python and build a computational model of the Earth’s climate system.
Quiz : “Carbon and the climate”
The “Carbon and the climate Quiz” is a simple yet thought-provoking activity suitable for school level students. The quiz has a set of questions about the role of carbon in the earth’s atmosphere, the carbon cycle, and climate change. Browse…
Lesson Plan: Power, Energy, Dynamics- Wind Turbines
As a high school Physics teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching about power, energy, and dynamics through the design and function of a wind turbine.
Lesson Plan: Algebra: Formula Substitution using the Wind Energy Equation
As a high school Mathematics teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching Formula Substitution in algebra after introducing formulas, numbers, variables, and constants.
Lesson Plan: Anthropogenic Environmental Changes and Climate
As a high school Geography, Humanities or Social Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching about human-induced (anthropogenic) environmental changes that challenge sustainability and could be responsible for global climate change.
Lesson Plan: Gene Editing using CRISPR
As a high school or undergraduate Biological Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach about CRISPR: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, a new gene editing technology that could enable certain species to adapt to…
