Global Climate Change Modules from PBS and NASA
Explore best practices for teaching global climate change (GCC) to middle- and high-school students with these free, self-paced modules for teachers.
Each module includes STEM resources that will increase your knowledge of climate change concepts and can be used directly with students.
This professional development experience was funded by NASA's
Global Climate Change Education initiative. This initiative is designed to improve the quality of the nation's STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education and enhance students' and teachers' literacy about global climate and Earth system change from elementary grades to lifelong learners.
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Introduction to Earth's Dynamically Changing Climate
How is the Earth's climate changing? Within the mainstream scientific community the fundamentals of global warming and climate change are no longer in question and increasing evidence shows that human activities make a significant contribution to this change. Examine evidence of climate change from different parts of the Earth’s system and consider what it means to live on a planet with a dynamically changing climate. |
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Impacts of a Warming Arctic
In the Earth system, a change in one part of the system will lead to a change in another part through positive and negative feedbacks. Feedbacks render some parts of the Earth more sensitive to climate change than others. Examine the evidence for changes in ice cover at the Arctic and explore why climate changes at the poles are so important to the rest of the climate system.
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