CLIMATE CHANGE BASICS FOR STUDENTS
The EPA's global warming site for kids. Grades 3-8.
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/kids/index.html
Fun animations to help explain the processes behind climate change. Grades 4-8.
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/kids/animations.html
The Climate Time Machine Activity -In "The Climate Time Machine" activity, students will look for "simulated pollen in lake sediment". Based on actual pollen data collected from Battleground Lake in southwest Washington, students will track how the climate has changed 20,000 years ago to the present.
Pollen Activity
Information Cards
Data Cards
Blank Data Graph
A fun website from the United Kingdom. Antenna answers your questions, predicts the future and tells you how you can help. Play a cool game in Antennaville to test your knowledge at the end. Grades 6-12.
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/antenna/climatechange/
The EPA's global warming website. Grades 8-12.
http://epa.gov/climatechange/index.html
Advanced Climate Information, Classroom Activities & Data Resources
Maine DEP's Info Page on Climate Change
http://www.maine.gov/dep/air/globalwarming/index.htm
Take a virtual expedition to a Monteverde cloud forest in Costa Rica and Discover the Potential Changes Related to Global Warming
http://www.oneworldjourneys.com/expeditions/climate/
Explore scientific data relating to the atmosphere, the oceans, the areas covered by ice and snow, and the living organisms in all these domains. You'll also get a sense of how scientists study natural phenomena-how researchers gather data.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/
Gulf of Maine Aquarium and Consequences of Climate variability/change
http://octopus.gma.org/climate_change/index.html
The Gulf Stream Voyage: An online multidisciplinary project which utilizes both real time data and primary source materials to help guide students to discover the science and history of the Gulf Stream. Grades 5-12.
http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/gulfstream/
(Some scientists think the gulf stream could be affected by climate change, this site listed above provides a basic understanding of how the gulf stream works. You can access live real-time data on the Gulf of Maine that might help you to study this issue further at GoMoos, a project of the University of Maine.)
http://www.gomoos.org/
The GLOBE program. Check out what other students have done studying the environment and the data they've collected, or find out how to sign up for a project yourself! Grades 4-6.
http://www.globe.gov/fsl/welcome/welcomeobject.pl
A Climate Change Atlas for 80 Forest Tree Species of the Eastern United States. Check out these US Forest Services resources. Including distribution maps and tables for different climate change scenarios, life-history and disturbance attributes, ecological attributes, forest type maps and sorted list of species importance values by state/county for different climate change scenarios, and more for 80 species in the eastern half of the United States.
http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/atlas/
