Climate and Energy Educational Resource Collection
The CLEAN Collection is a high-quality and rigorously reviewed collection of climate and energy educational resources aligned with the Climate Literacy and the Energy Literacy frameworks, and the Next Generation Science Standards .
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Plum's Island Explorer: Land and Water
This is an interactive video in which students navigate around a virtual island while learning about the characteristics of land formations and bodies of water.Reviewed Collection
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Interpreting Earth's Climate Record - Decoding the Weather Machine
Learn how scientists have pieced together a continuous 800,000-year record of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and ocean temperatures in these videos from NOVA: Decoding the Weather Machine. Use ...Reviewed Collection
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This activity teaches students how energy is obtained from nuclear fission and how it is used to produce electricity in a nuclear power plant. It also teaches students how some of the electricity ...
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Investigating Deforestation Through An Earth Systems View Using Landsat
This activity has students use an Earth Systems perspective to identify the various causes associated with changes to Earth's forests as they review Landsat imagery of site locations from around ...Reviewed Collection
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Food Sustainability and Security
This activity has students analyze the lifecycle of food in their homes.Reviewed Collection
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This is a wildfire simulation with three different zones (plains, mountains, and foothills). The user can change variables to see what happens when they spark a fire.
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This activity supports sense-making around kinetic and potential energy through a series of demonstrations.
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This video shows the people of Bhutan working to prevent flooding from an outburst of a glacial lake in the country's Lunana region.
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Puzzling Wisconsin's Biological Communities
This is an in-depth activity that focuses on Wisconsin ecosystem characteristics and energy flow within ecosystems. The activity is lengthy, but selected parts of it could be adapted to a variety of ...Reviewed Collection
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Flubber Flow is a 30-minute activity in which teams of four to five children experiment with Flubber and investigate how a solid can flow! They predict and model the properties of glaciers, view ...
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