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

State Electricity on Google Earth: How many Solar Panels would it Take?
Billy Goodman, Passaic Valley High School; Todd Greene, California State University-Chico; Maureen Padden, McMaster University
Educational activity page guiding students through calculating U.S. state electricity consumption and estimating land area, costs, and trade-offs required to replace all electricity with solar power using Google Earth, including quantitative analysis, energy literacy, and peer-reviewed teaching resources. 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: 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.

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: 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: Globally-Averaged Temperature
Patrick Callahan
Develop the skills necessary to evaluate global average temperature. Debate the significance of temperature variations on climate change.

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.

Module: Carbon Capture and Sequestration
Patrick Callahan
Students will learn the basics of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). Spiraling from the carbon cycle activity, students will investigate how CCS could be an important mitigation strategy for carbon emissions

Great Plains: Energy, Water and Land Use - NCA Key Message 1
NOAA; Contributing Author: Kristin Poppleton; Sarah Evans; Ginny Brown
NCA Key Message 1: Energy, Water and Land Use Visit the full land use and energy page Rising temperatures are leading to increased demand for water and energy. In parts of the region, this will constrain ...

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 ...