Science
Next Generation Science Standards for high school. Connecticut lawmakers have officially adopted NGSS.
General Science
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Guidance in teaching climate and energy from the Climate Literacy & Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN)
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Curriculum from Stanford for high school students
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Climate Change Education - Middle School
Curriculum from Stanford for middle school students
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Science Activity Ideas from CABE Green Day Activity Kit
Includes how to create a biosphere in a bottle, learn all the energy it takes it make a burger, and creating your own biofuels.
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Climate Science and Policy Lesson Plan This activity includes various skills such as reading graphs. It allows students to apply their knowledge of increasing concentrations of CO2 in our atmosphere and how it affects biodiversity and ecosystems, and understand the carbon cycle better.
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Writing about climate change
Part 1: Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning
Part 2: Well Written Explanation
Translating Qualitative & Quantitative Details: Climate Change
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Young People's Trust for the Environment
Free downloadable lesson plans and factsheets
Climate Change and Animals Fact Sheet
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Comprehensive list of lessons, activities and experiments for all age groups
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High School Sustainability Lessons
From Green Education Foundation. Science, health, social studies, language arts, math, and creativity options.
Sustainable Transportation Lesson
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Buy, use, toss? An interdisciplinary curriculum examining how we buy things in the US.
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The Scientific Method in Action
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Climate Curriculum by School Level
Created by Boston Public School Science teachers and students - resources for high school, middle school and elementary school
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NOAA Climate Education Webinar Archives
Climate and Earth Science Education
Environmental Science, Education, and Stewardship
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Lab activity on why some molecules absorb heat better than others.
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Interactive game to learn about the causes and effects of climate change.
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How Data Science Can Help Fight Climate Change: Science is a powerful tool in the fight against global warming. It uses different methods, such as machine learning (where computers learn from data) and data visualization (turning data into pictures), to analyze the details and understand the most challenging components of climate change.
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Featured project:
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Eco-fair project from our partners at Metropolitan Business Academy
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Students design their own research project answering the question "How is the Climate Changing?" and present their ideas at an Eco Fair where other students can come an see their ideas
Energy
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Renew-a-bean activity to teach conservation and renewable energy using beans.
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Solar Activities including: building a solar water heater, building a solar cooker and creating a model solar house
Wind Energy: students create their own wind machines and use them for various experiments
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All of the above from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Full document here
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Renewable/ Non Renewable Resources Activity PowerPoint
Classroom activity with popcorn to better understand concept of nonrenewable energy
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National Energy Education Development curriculum resources.
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Renewable energy, wind and solar power basics with games and experiments
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Energy Efficiency Ambassadors learn how different types of light use energy and discuss how you can educe energy waste at home
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Stabilization Wedges- 15 way to cut carbon from Princeton Carbon Mitigation Initiative. Students work in groups to choose the best combination of technology, policy, and tools to reduce our carbon output. Depending on knowledge level of students this could be a single lesson at the end of a unit or a whole unit in itself.
Biology and Public Health
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Go Fish lesson to explain the tragedy of the commons and the over use of resources using goldfish
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Resources from University of Texas at Austin with information about the author of each lesson plan
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American Public Health Association
Information resource climate change relation to public health. APHA’s efforts and hope for more awareness - video as well
Yale Climate Change and Health Initiative Information
Climate change implications for health, current/projected health effects of climate change, ways that reduced greenhouse gas emissions will help
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Hot Potato: Climate Change, Food Systems, and You
Live video school program for grades 6-12 from the American Museum of Natural History
Climate Change: The Public Health Response
Academic article from the American Journal of Public Health
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Center for Climate Change & Health
Website and Center for Climate Change & Health connected with Public Health Institute
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Long-term student-directed project on climate change's effect on human health and disease
Articles
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The Plastic Coated Island Where Nobody Lives
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Seven Charts that Explain the Plastic Pollution Problem
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Videos
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Khan Academy: “How Does Climate Change Affect Biodiversity”
National Geographic: Climate Change 101 with Bill Nye
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National Geographic: Energy 101: Biofuels
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National Geographic: Energy 101: Solar PV
AsapSCIENCE: What if All The Ice Melted on Earth? Ft. Bill Nye
NASA: How Global Warming Stacks Up
NASA’s Earth Minute: Sea Level Rise
NASA’s Earth Minute: Gas Problem
NASA’s Earth Minute: Earth Has a Fever
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MinuteEarth: "Science and Stories about our awesome planet!"
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International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme: Climate Change: The State of the Science
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Our Climate - Our Future short videos.
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Ted Talk: Gavin Schmidt: The Emergent Patterns of Climate Change
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Vox: Takeout creates a lot of trash. It doesn't have to. Can we deliver ourselves from packaging waste?
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CNNMoney: Google Earth Timelapses show Climate Change
TIME: Three Decades of Earth Seen from Space
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