Climate and Energy Educational Resource Collection

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The CLEAN Collection is a high-quality and rigorously reviewed collection of climate and energy educational resources and lesson plans aligned with the Climate Literacy and Energy Literacy frameworks, and the Next Generation Science Standards . Through peer-review, scientists and educators ensure scientific accuracy, pedagogic effectiveness, and classroom readiness for each resource. With nearly 1000 items in the CLEAN collection, there are multiple ways to find the resources you need. Type in a keyword, or click on the filter options, and off you go!

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How Different Generations Talk About Climate Change

This video explores questions such as: What's changed since the early days of the environmental movement? How are the stakes different today? What's the best way to speak up about climate ...
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Rain Gauge Activity

In this hands-on inquiry-based activity, students face an engineering challenge based on real-world applications. They are tasked with developing a tool they can use to measure the amount of rain ...
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Solar Convection

In this activity, students will use hot and cold water to see how fluids at different temperatures move around in convection currents.
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What is a watershed?

In this activity students build a model of a watershed to learn where water goes when it rains. Students then make predictions and draw what they observe.
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Elementary GLOBE Earth Systems Module

Several activities that introduce students to the concepts of earth as a series of systems that are all connected. All of the activities reinforce the idea that water, air, soil, and living things ...
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Scientific Consensus: A Tsunami of Evidence

This is the first lesson in a series of 6 lessons about climate change from the National Center for Science Education. The 'Tsunami of Evidence' module directly addresses common ...
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Debating the Grid Example

Students research electricity, its sources, how energy grids function, how to make grids most efficient, and how to bring different types of energy generation together to diversify grids. Students ...
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SciJinks: What causes a thunderstorm?

This short video demonstrates what causes a thunderstorm.
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Carbon Dioxide Absorbs IR Energy: An Art and Science Climate Change Collaboration

This video focuses on two experiments with two different wavelengths of light--visible and infrared--to better understand some of the basic processes responsible for the temperature of the ...
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Parts per Million: A Little is a LOT (In the Greenhouse #18)

The current concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere is over 400 parts per million. This video explains what one part per million (ppm) is, and what impact a trace gas – or any ...
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