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.

Simulation: Thunderstorm Simulation
Patrick Callahan
Air and water shift and change our climate. In this lab, students learn about the major movement of air and water movement that create weather. Through discussions and hands-on activities, students will walk away with a greater understanding of how and why the Earth's climate system operates.

Activity: Learning to Play by Nature’s Rules - Eco Tipping Points
Deidre Duffy Source: The EcoTipping Points Project
This lesson teaches students how to recognize vicious and virtuous cycles, and then uses a news article about Hurricane Katrina to learn how to diagram the cyclical relationship between ecosystems and social systems. They will differentiate between approaches to water control taken in the United States and new policies developed in Holland called 'making room for water.'

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)

Case Study: Impacts of Climate Change on Tribes in Washington (Part 1)
Source: Evergreen College - Enduring Legacies Native Cases
This study talks about Global Climate Change, Global Warming, the Puget Sound region and its Tribal Lands, along with the tribes of the Puget Sound region.

Case Study: Can the needs for environmental protection and biodiversity and the needs of indigenous people be reconciled?
Source: Evergreen College- Enduring Legacies Native Cases
The case study discusses the differing opinions of land preservation and conservation between the Indigenous people, conservationists, and Euro-Americans modern day culture. This case study is in a setting that consists of a student and a teacher debating and finding research on how conservation organizations and Indigenous people can find common ground when it comes to land preservation and conservation, especially on Native lands. The case study is very well done and does a very good job of showing the sides of the Indigenous people and the conservationists when it comes to land preservation and biodiversity.

HOW SUCCESS WORKS: Reversing Tropical Deforestation - Agroforestry & Community Forest Management in Thailand - EcoTipping Points
Deidre Duffy
Agroforestry farming and community-managed forests empower impoverished villagers to optimize their resources, both natural and human, while showing how to reduce greenhouse gases by sequestering carbon from the atmosphere.

Unit: Geoengineering
Patrick Callahan
There is much unknown about the ramifications of large-scale deployment of geoengineering technologies. After a discussion and analysis of David Keith's Ted Talk, students engage in an activity to investigate the pros and cons of existing geoengineering technologies.

PowerPoint: Climate Change and Sustainability
This is an introductory level presentation exploring the various definitions of the term "environmental sustainability" and the connection between climate change and human population growth and its ...