Climate Live K12
Columbia Climate School: Productions specifically produced for a K-12 audience.
NESTA NGSS Teacher Resources
DIGTexas Blueprints
The blueprint stitches together a set of teaching units populated with carefully selected learning activities and other educational resources.
National Hurricane Center; NOAA
Real-time and archived data, maps and notices about hurricane activity in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
Hurricane Model; Concord Consortium
Interactive allows students to investigate the weather conditions responsible for creating and sustaining a hurricane.
Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth; NASA
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Windows on Earth
Windows on Earth – [ Earth Movie Theater ] – See photos & movies of Earth by NASA ISS astronauts. Listen to joyous music. Stunning 4K. New releases often. Enjoy!
Education GeoSource Database
Education GeoSource compiles geoscience education resources from a variety of organizations, providing credible and accurate Earth and Space Science resources for all ages. Visitors have access to thousands of free resources, from lessons to outreach and teacher professional development, for use in classrooms, scout programs, or at home.
Graph Literacy; Concord Consortium
Need to improve graph literacy? Lesson Plan uses Interactive software (SmartGraph) to explain: Equivalence, Interpolation, Indep/Dep Variables, Sci word problems
System Modeling with SageModeler; Concord Consortium
Need help having students create scientific models? SageModeler is online software, easy to use Compare student created data sets Good for Chromebooks too!
The National Earth Science Teachers Association YouTube Channel
Playlist of archived resources developed by NESTA
NASA Earth Observatory Explorer
Explore your backyard or the other side of the Earth with EO Explorer. For more than 20 years, the Earth Observatory has published stories from all over our planet. Now we encourage you to explore those stories in a different way: by location.
NOAA JetStream Learning lessons
Welcome to JetStream, the National Weather Service Online Weather School. This site is designed to help educators, emergency managers, or anyone interested in learning about weather and weather safety.
Hurricanes
In this EarthLabs module, students will do hands-on experiments and study hurricanes in satellite imagery and visualizations. They'll also explore over 150 years of storm data to find out when and where these storms occur. If students are studying hurricanes during hurricane season, they can monitor the position and status of storms in real time. Hurricanes can serve as an exciting entry point into understanding everyday weather, or a culminating topic for an Earth system or environmental science unit.
Multimedia Gallery | U.S. Geological Survey
The USGS Multimedia Gallery is our one-stop collection of videos, photography, and audio. All items in this gallery are considered public domain unless otherwise noted.
NOAA Photo Library
Images in the NOAA Photo Library are in the public domain and cannot be copyrighted. There is no fee for downloading any images on the site. Educational use is encouraged as the primary goal of the NOAA Photo Library is to help all understand our oceans and atmosphere.
U.S. Drought Monitor
Heat of Fall keep tabs w/ Weekly US Drought Monitor Interactive w/ detailed reports of rainfall/drought in regions down to county level. Great for student projects for long term cycles
Earth Matters - 6 Trends to Know about Fire Season in the Western U.S. : NASA Earth Observatory
Researchers with the NASA-funded Rehabilitation Capability Convergence for Ecosystem Recovery (RECOVER) have analyzed more than 40,000 fires from Colorado to California between 1950 to 2017 to learn how wildfire frequency, size, location, and a few other traits have changed.
Resources for "Changing the Climate of Your Climate Change Workshop"
Activities presented at Earth ER 2018 (Kansas) -Carbon Moves Carbon Cycle Game
- Drilling Down to the Core Data
EarthViewer: HHMI Biointeractive
EarthViewer | This interactive module allows students to explore the science of Earth's deep history, from its formation 4.5 billion years ago to modern times.
Climate - High-Adventure Science
Through a series of guided questions, students explore interactions between factors that affect Earth's climate.
Statewide Time Series | Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
Make online student project—How is #Climate in your State changing? FREE Interactive Real temp data that can be plotted & organized in many ways -from 1925-present -smooth out the curve by each plot point -top temps
The Monash University Simple Climate Model
What is Albedo? How does it control our global climate? Interactive Climate model you can change: -Ice, clouds, ocean, atmosphere, hydrological cycle, etc & see the effects
Water Use and Stress
Have questions or teaching about Water Access, Resources & Sanitation? All the info & interactive maps you could ever want and more. Easy to search infographics that reveal human impacts on the water cycle.
Water footprint Calculators
The Water Footprint Assessment Tool is a free online web application that provides clear insight into how water is appropriated for human uses and the impacts resulting from those uses.
Mapped: How the US generates electricity - Carbon Brief
Infographic plots the United States' power stations in an interactive map to show how and where the US generates electricity.
Flowcharts about resource, commodity, and byproduct flows in a graphical form.
The most widely recognized of these charts is the U.S. energy flow chart. LLNL has also published charts depicting carbon (or carbon dioxide potential) flow and water flow at the national level as well as energy, carbon, and water flows at the international, state, municipal, and organizational (e.g., Air Force) level.
Google Earth Timelapse
Have humans changed the Earth? Timelapse any place on Earth! Show Glaciers, lakes lowering, population growth Including your own hometown! @googleearth
Energy Infrastructure and Resources Maps
Using data, explore geographic information about both renewable and nonrenewable energy resources in the U.S.
Mapping the World's Biodiversity
Biodiversity throughout the world? Beautiful/easy to read maps created/shared by Conservation scientist @nasa_space_ant Terrestrial & marine animals based on data from @IUCN & @BirdLife_News
Phenology Visualization Tool | USA National Phenology Network
AMAZING interactive map from @USANPN —studies animal/plant affects by season/#climate -different species -seasonal patterns -interpreting graphs