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ADAPTATION: Coral Reefs of Vanuatu

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ADAPTATION: Coral Reefs of Vanuatu

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The coral reefs of the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu are the backbone of the island's environmental and economic health. Today they face destruction from a silent predator that can rapidly decimate an entire reef. In this video, students learn about how a starfish is destroying the coral reefs of Vanuatu and how the islanders are adapting.

Subject:: Applied Science; Biology; Career and Technical Education; Ecology; Economics; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Life Science; Physical Science; Social Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: LearningMedia; Public Broadcasting Service
Date Added:: 08/01/2022

ADAPTATION: Floating Gardens of Bangladesh

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ADAPTATION: Floating Gardens of Bangladesh

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This video begins in the lush deltas of Bangladesh. The host of the video learns how communities are adapting to changing monsoons and dangerous sea-level rise. Floating gardens and floating schools are just the start of some of the country's innovative strategies.

Subject:: Applied Science; Atmospheric Science; Career and Technical Education; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Oceanography; Physical Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: LearningMedia; Public Broadcasting Service
Date Added:: 08/01/2022

ADAPTATION: Ice Stupas of Ladakh

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ADAPTATION: Ice Stupas of Ladakh

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In this video, learn how communities in the arid high-mountain region of Ladakh rely on glacial water to feed streams and water crops during the spring and summer months. Global warming is dramatically reshaping the future of these areas. Meet a Ladakhi teacher and engineer who devised a method to capture and store glacial runoff into magnificent ice pyramids that are used as water resources throughout the summer and during peak agricultural months.

Subject:: Agriculture; Applied Science; Career and Technical Education; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Physical Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Alize Carrere; Public Broadcasting Service
Date Added:: 08/01/2022

ADAPTATION: Invasive Carp of Kentucky

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ADAPTATION: Invasive Carp of Kentucky

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In this video, an entrepreneur is finding new ways to manage the invasive Asian carp problem in the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Once introduced to help mitigate an algae problem, the carp became invasive. This video highlights how the local community has adapted to the issue, including how they have gained ideas about how to utilize the carp from other cultures to help mitigate the issue.

Subject:: Applied Science; Biology; Career and Technical Education; Ecology; Economics; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Life Science; Physical Science; Social Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: LearningMedia; Public Broadcasting Service
Date Added:: 08/01/2022

Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and The Islands

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Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and The Islands

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This video addresses how climate change is affecting the biomes and ecosystems in the US Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Hawaii and the Caribbean Islands. It also highlights the impacts on infrastructure and defines key climate science terms.

Subject:: Applied Science; Atmospheric Science; Career and Technical Education; Ecology; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Life Science; Physical Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Global Weirding, Public Broadcasting Service; Katharine Hayhoe
Date Added:: 11/26/2020

Climate Models by Global Weirding

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Climate Models by Global Weirding

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This video offers the audience a specific definition of the term 'global climate models'. It highlights and defines key climate modeling concepts such as the physics of fluids, carbon, nitrogen and water cycles, paleo climate data vs current and projected data vs predictive and real data.

Subject:: Applied Science; Career and Technical Education; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Physical Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Global Weirding, Public Broadcasting Service; Katharine Hayhoe
Date Added:: 11/26/2020

Drought Affects California's Water Availability

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Drought Affects California's Water Availability

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In this resource, students learn about changes in water availability due to drought in California from 2013 to 2017. This resource provides opportunities for students to interpret data and analyze imagery for observational evidence of drought conditions through maps, satellite images, and photographs.

Subject:: Applied Science; Atmospheric Science; Career and Technical Education; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Physical Science
Material Type:: Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: LearningMedia; Public Broadcasting Service
Date Added:: 07/27/2022

Ice Globes | Winter

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Ice Globes | Winter

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This short video focuses on how the melting of snow creates a more sticky substance that is easier to make snowballs with.

Subject:: Career and Technical Education; Environmental Studies; Physical Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: LearningMedia; Public Broadcasting Service
Date Added:: 08/01/2022

Interpreting Earth's Climate Record - Decoding the Weather Machine

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Interpreting Earth's Climate Record - Decoding the Weather Machine

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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 this resource to review the difference between inference and observation and to consider the relationships between carbon dioxide, Earth's temperature, and climate change.

Subject:: Applied Science; Archaeology; Career and Technical Education; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Physical Geography; Physical Science; Social Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: NOVA; Public Broadcasting Service
Date Added:: 07/12/2021

The Last Time the Globe Warmed

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The Last Time the Globe Warmed

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This video primarily focuses on comparing the current global warming trend compared to a previous time in Earth's history when the global average temperature also increased.

Subject:: Applied Science; Career and Technical Education; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Physical Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Eons; Public Broadcasting Service
Date Added:: 11/29/2020

Nature Cat - Stream and Shout

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Nature Cat - Stream and Shout

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This cartoon shows where streams start and where they end up.

Subject:: Career and Technical Education; Environmental Studies; Hydrology; Physical Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Public Broadcasting Service
Date Added:: 07/08/2021

Plum's Island Explorer: Land and Water

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Plum's Island Explorer: Land and Water

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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.

Subject:: Applied Science; Career and Technical Education; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Physical Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Public Broadcasting Service
Date Added:: 07/12/2021

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Polar Lab

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Using a combination of clickable 360 degree landscapes, 2D and 3D videos, animations, interviews with scientists, and mini-games, the Polar Lab takes players onto the glacier ice and into the lab in search of evidence to answer big questions about Earth's climateâpast, present, and future. They search for plant and animal fossils that can reveal what this Arctic and Antarctic environment was like 50 million years ago. Students examine two kinds of clues that act as time capsules for exploring the past: mud cores and ice cores. Finally, students examine the rapid retreat of the massive glaciers and sea ice to better understand how changing ice conditions affect animals.

Subject:: Applied Science; Biology; Career and Technical Education; Ecology; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Life Science; Physical Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: NOVA; Public Broadcasting Service
Date Added:: 12/02/2020

Renewable Energy is Way too Expensive, Right?

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Renewable Energy is Way too Expensive, Right?

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This video explores the myth that developing or emerging countries/cities (Africa, Mexico, Dubai, Peru) must be dependent on coal, oil or gas because of their poor economies and not on clean, renewable energy sources because of the expense. Innovative clean energy storage techniques and base load power is discussed.

Subject:: Applied Science; Career and Technical Education; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Physical Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Global Weirding, Public Broadcasting Service; Katharine Hayhoe
Date Added:: 11/29/2020

Salt Water and Freshwater Distribution on Earth

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Salt Water and Freshwater Distribution on Earth

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These two visuals illustrate quantities of freshwater vs saltwater availability worldwide through graphs and charts. There are resources included that support conversations around the graphics.
These graphics are part of a larger collection of resources titled "Climate Change Impacts and Solutions: Drought"

Subject:: Applied Science; Career and Technical Education; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Physical Science
Material Type:: Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: LearningMedia; Public Broadcasting Service
Date Added:: 07/27/2022

The Sun Warms Earth

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The Sun Warms Earth

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These videos capture how the sun warms the Earth with support materials for teachers and students. Students will make observations to use as evidence that sunlight warms Earth's surface.

Subject:: Career and Technical Education; Environmental Studies; Physical Science; Physics
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Public Broadcasting Service
Date Added:: 07/08/2021

What About the Ozone Hole?

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What About the Ozone Hole?

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This video provides history on product development by General Motors and other industries that led to the release of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). It explains the connection between global warming and the ozone hole, chemical build-up in our lower and upper atmospheres, the increase in GWP gases, increased air quality ozone alerts and the 1987 Montreal Protocol that banned the use of CFCs globally.

Subject:: Applied Science; Atmospheric Science; Career and Technical Education; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Physical Science; Physics
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Global Weirding, Public Broadcasting Service; Katharine Hayhoe
Date Added:: 12/23/2020

What is Weather?

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What is Weather?

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This activity introduces the concept of weather. Students follow the first stages of the scientific process to investigate the four factors that contribute to making weather what it is.

Subject:: Career and Technical Education; Environmental Studies; Physical Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Public Broadcasting Service
Date Added:: 07/08/2021

Your Place in Focus | Adaptation

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Your Place in Focus | Adaptation

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This lesson guides students to connect the PBS Adaptation video series on climate adaptation to their own community. Students describe their community, identify climate impacts faced by their community, research how their community is adapting to those impacts, and then create a digital story about what they found.

Subject:: Agriculture; Applied Science; Career and Technical Education; Ecology; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Life Science; Oceanography; Physical Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Provider Set:: CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:: Public Broadcasting Service; Shari Carswell
Date Added:: 08/01/2022