Northwest Passage
Glenn Richard, Stony Brook University
An investigation of changes in polar regions using Google Earth.

How Much Energy is on my Plate?
Karin Kirk, Freelance Science Writer and Geoscientist
A teaching activity page from the CLEAN collection guiding students through calculating embodied energy in food production, comparing energy inputs across protein sources, and exploring food system sustainability via concept sketches, data analysis, and life cycle assessment, aligned with climate and energy education standards. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Lab Exercise: Ocean Circulation Simulation: So Far, So Great
Patrick Callahan
How do oceans work? We see their ebb and flow, but what causes this enormous movement of water that influences the globe in many ways? Through a hands-on experiment, students learn the basic principles that cause ocean motion, that drive rising, sinking, and transport in the real ocean.

Lab Exercise: The Earth’s Radiation Budget: Balancing Your Heat Book
Patrick Callahan
Students enhance their understanding of the Earth's radiation budget and how it influences the Earth's climate through the application of NASA data. Additionally, there's a hands-on activity to test assess students' knowledge of the lab's concepts.

Ocean Acidification - "The Other CO2 Problem"
This educational webpage from the CAMEL Climate Change Education project provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of ocean acidification as a consequence of increased atmospheric CO2, detailing its chemical mechanisms, impacts on marine organisms—particularly calcifying species like corals and pteropods—evidence from historical and paleo-data, metabolic effects, and future implications, while emphasizing the urgency of emissions reduction as the primary solution. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Lab Exercise: Vostok Ice Core: The Cold Hard Truth
Patrick Callahan
Examine Vostok ice core data from the Industrial Revolution to 160,000 years ago. Understand how climate indicators in the ice from our planet's past help scientists to envisage our climate future.

Lab Exercise: Surface Energy and Water Balance: The Atmosphere’s Moment of Zen
Patrick Callahan
The Earth's energy budget - how it's balanced - plays a critical role in determining surface conditions. Students learn about the four major components and how each varies in time and space through practice.

Website: Skeptical Science
Ginny Brown
Skeptical Science explains climate change science & rebutting global warming misinformation. Scientific skepticism is healthy. Scientists should always challenge themselves to expand their knowledge and ...

Case Study: Is Anybody Listening?
Source: Evergreen College - Enduring Legacies Native Cases - Energy - http://nativecases.evergreen.edu/
By relocating 15,000 Navajos, did the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act, Public Law 93-531, violate the civil rights of Navajos living on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona? This case examines the law's purpose, legal and historical antecedents, and alleged connections to mineral interests coveting the resources on Black Mesa. The case examines the lived experiences and cultures of the Navajos and Hopis affected by P.L. 93-531. It also examines the role the federal government, lawyers, and mineral interests played in precipitating the crisis. The case highlights those Navajos resisting the law. It examines their appeals to the U.S. judiciary for protection of their civil and religious freedoms, and why these appeals failed. The case is an example of how Western-based property law has undermined traditional Native American practices of collaboration and consensus.

Case Study: Alberta’s Oil Sands and the Rights of First Nations Peoples to Environmental Health
Source: Evergreen College - Enduring Legacies Native Cases http://nativecases.evergreen.edu/index.html
The Problem Alberta sits over one of the largest recoverable oil patches in the world, second only to Saudi Arabia. It covers 149, 000 square kilometers, an area larger than Florida, and holds at least 175 billion barrels of recoverable crude bitumen... But oil sands are a fundamentally different kind of oil. They take a lot of energy and a lot of water and leave a very large environmental footprint compared to all other forms of oil extraction. Because of this, the massive changes to the boreal forest and the watershed have prompted the United Nations to list this region as a global hot spot for environmental change. (H2Oil)