‘Climate Change Chat Session’ Educator Resource List - Hawaii

‘Climate Change Chat Session’ Educator Resource List

Thank you for attending today’s event. Below is a preliminary list of organizations and websites that offer useful educator resources for climate change and environmental science lesson plans and activities. Please enjoy your perusal of them; we hope they prove useful in your curriculum development.

Climate Change and Science Resources

Organization/Site Name Description/Link
National Geographic Environmental science lesson plans and activities:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/

Smithsonian Institute Lessons on science, environment and other topics. You can search by state standard: http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/

The Educator’s Reference Desk Lessons on Environmental Education:
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Science/Environmental_Education

Institute for Global Environmental Strategies Activities and projects on climate change and environmental stewardship:
http://www.naaee.org/

NASA Lessons on climate; click “Earth Science” then “Environment”:
http://search.nasa.gov/search/edFilterSearch.jsp?empty=true#


United States Global Change Research Program Interactive media about climate change:
http://www.globalchange.gov/resources/educators/toolkit

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence Great climate change and science resources:
http://free.ed.gov/subjects.cfm?subject_id=155&toplvl=47

Children in a Changing Climate A broad list climate change resources
http://www.childreninachangingclimate.org/CCC_KS3_audit.pdf

Take Part.com Interactive climate change timeline:
http://www.takepart.com/issues/climate-change/3

Michigan Reach Out Great list of Earth Science Lessons:
http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/earthsciences.html

Carnegie Mellon University Teacher’s Guide to High Quality Educational Materials on Climate Change and Global Warming:
http://hdgc.epp.cmu.edu/teachersguide/teachersguide.htm#teachersguida

Climate Change Education.org Resource for climate change education:
http://www.climatechangeeducation.org/k-12/environmental_sciences.html

North American Association for Environmental Education Climate Change and Environmental Studies resources:
http://www.naaee.org/

Teaching Climate Change Law and Policy High school climate change law and policy lessons:
http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org/

BGCI- Plants for the Planet List of links to additional resources:
http://www.bgci.org/education/climate_change_communication/

Classroom Materials!
DonorsChoose.org Every teacher should know about DonorsChoose.org. By writing in about your classroom needs you can have everything from school supplies to fieldtrips donated to your class:
www.donorschoose.org