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: 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.

Case: Impacts of Global Climate Change on Tribes in Washington (Part II)
Source: Evergreen College - Enduring Legacies Native Cases
This case study provides an in depth look at the Global Climate change in the Puget Sound region along with the effects it could have in the future. It also shows the effects and what could happen to Tribal people of the Northwest if steps are not taken.

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: 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.

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.

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

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.