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Activities in subject Climate Change
Carbon Cycle: EPA Global Warming Kids Site
Students use an animated guide to learn the vocabulary and key concepts associated with global warming and Earth processes. They can choose from three sections on the greenhouse effect, the water...
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Differences Between Climate And Weather
This exercise helps students understand the differences between climate and weather by comparing daily weather data with average data for their hometown.
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EPA's Personal Greenhouse Gas Calculator
This online interactive site allows students to enter lifestyle information to determine their personal contribution to the greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere. This activity can be used as a...
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Global Warming Webquest
Using this Internet-based webquest activity, students learn about climate change, energy use, and global warming, including how scientists, business leaders, and policy makers study and respond...
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Greenhouse Gas Lab
In this classroom activity, students compare the ability of carbon dioxide to absorb heat as compared to air.
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How Many Automobiles?
Students use motor vehicle registration data to calculate the fuel consumption and the amount of carbon dioxide generated by the vehicles in their state.
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Human Activity And Climate Change
Students calculate their personal contributions to greenhouse gas emissions.
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Stabilization Wedges: A Concept & Game
Students learn about the importance of taking action now in order to mitigate the effects of global climate change in the future. They participate in an activity modeling how different steps can be...
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The Drowning Of New York
Students investigate the evidence behind a newspaper story about sea level rise in New York City. In this activity, students learn about evaluating the evidence for the potential effects of global...
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Time & Cycles: Dendrochronology
Students use pre-marked paper strips that simulate tree ring patterns to explore how data about past climate change can be gathered without direct observations.
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Time Capsule
Students write a letter to a relative living in the year 2100 explaining their choice of how to respond to global warming.
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What Do Concentrations Mean?
Students perform a series of serial dilutions in order to understand parts per million and parts per billion.
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What Factors Impact A Greenhouse?
Students learn about different factors that can affect heat-trapping ability of the greenhouse effect by observing the effect of different factors on the temperature of six model greenhouses.
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Where In The World Is Carbon Dioxide?
Students observe the presence of CO2 from various sources in order to gain a greater understanding of atmospheric CO2.
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