Resources For Climate Change Education

Resources For Climate Change Education

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/detect/human-shishmaref.shtml The Village of Shishmaref

is paying an early price for increased wave energy and higher sea levels.

Cherry, Lynne; Braasch, Gary. How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming (About Our Changing Climate). Dawn, 2008. ISBN: 978-1584691037.

http://www.climatechoices.org.uk/index.htm This excellent website is produced in the UK and is geared for children ages 9-11.

http://www.cocorahs.org/ Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) reporting system. This is very student friendly and low cost.

http://www.davisnet.com/weather/index.asp Davis is a leader in low cost, accurate data

collection systems.

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html Our own EPA site. The site does not use metric units at this time.

http://www.globe.gov/fsl/html/templ.cgi?elemGLOBE&lang=en The Globe Program has branched out to elementary modules which can be downloaded in pdf form and printed or ordered from GLOBE.

http://globalwarmingkids.net/ This is the portal for the Climate Change Education group out of California. It compiles a great deal of information on one site, but may be overwhelming for kids doing research.

http://www.ipcc.ch/ or http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_spm.pdf The place to go to get primary information on climate change from the folks who won the 2007 Nobel Prize.

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/

Journey North: Migration Studies Clearinghouse for Monarch butterflies, gray whales, hummingbirds, tulips and other very cool stuff.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/pdf/AT_Track_chart.pdf National Hurricane Center Tracking Chart in pdf format. An excellent way to introduce latitude and longitude!

Olson, J.K., and Bang, E. “Avoiding the big scare.”, Science and Children, 46 (9): 52-Summer 2009, NSTA.

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/climat/campaign/index_en.htm The EU website on climate change. It includes a section for teachers and students.

http://www.ametsoc.org/amsedu/DataStremeFrames.html Datstreme will give you a solid footing for understanding weather and basic physical science. It is an online/face to face

course with subsidized graduate credit.

http://weather.weatherbug.com/weather-education/default.asp While this represents a commercial enterprise, Weather Bug has done its homework on lesson plans and connecting schools.

http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/SCOOL/ The S’Cool program gives students a chance to contribute data to a real NASA project which supports climate and weather research.

http://www.spaceweather.com/ Don’t forget that what happens on the surface of our star trumps almost everything we do on Earth. A bit technical, but can be helpful as a resource or for student research.

http://www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/science_policy.php Clean air-cool planet is a northeast regional climate change awareness and advocacy group.

http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/climate_change_2008_final.pdf This is the latest compendium of climate change information form the National Academy of Sciences. I highly recommend this report as a comprehensive starting point if you want to begin to understand the complexity of the CC issue.

http://www.worldweather.org/ World Meteorological Society (On the World Weather Information Service page, click on the climatological data tab).

Viscomi, Nicole, and Koch, Janice. ‘Winter Out Our Window’ in Yager, Robert and Enger, Sandra (Eds.). Exemplary Science in Grades Pre-K-4”, NSTA Press, 2006.