NYC Climate Change Curriculum Resources:
Green Map has produced a set of 6 new Energy & Environment Exploration Modules designed to help middle and high school age youth experience and interpret New York City's energy and environment from a sustainability perspective. Teachers and students can use these modules to map street trees and green space, get around car-free, find waste reduction sites and save energy at school. www.GreenAppleMap.org/The Metropolitan East Coast Assessment Educator’s Pack is a package of GIS software, datasets and lesson plans designed for educators who are interested in using GIS technology to explore global climate change issues. The package includes a free GIS software program called ArcExplorer by ESRI the world’s leading GIS software developer. ArcExplorer is easy to use and comes with a user manual to help get you started. The datasets available includes much of the data used in the MEC project such as the climate change models and the US Census Bureau’s TIGER Files. The data is enough to get you started, however once you are familiar with the GIS system you will be able to add new layer to you maps by creating your own or by searching for new data layers on the Internet and downloading them into your projects. Also provided are two lesson plans that use ArcExplorer to view the data and produce a series of maps to study climate change predictions in the MEC region.
General Climate Change Curriculum Resources :
U.S. EPA Climate Change site includes links to detailed information on a wide range of climate change informationClimate Change for Teens (US EPA) Young people can become Climate Ambassadors by motivating friends, school, and community to address climate change and children's health.
Climate Change for Kids (US EPA) includes child-friendly explanations of the terminology used in climate change reports, games, web links, plus information for teachers, including links to many web sites with lesson plans and activities
Climate Change Education on-line resource center with links to many climate change web sites for teachers, kids and families.
Union of Concerned Scientists information related to climate change in the northeast US and California
Global Warming Materials for Educators is maintained by Union of Concerned Scientists and includes lesson plans
GLOBAL WARMING: Early Warning Signs has a map that indicated local warning signs of global warming. There is also a "Global Warming Basics" section and other information on global warming. This site is a joint effort of Environmental Defense, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, World Resources Institute, World Wildlife Fund
For Educators Section contains curriculum guide with high school lesson plans and impacts of climate change in U.S.and maintained by the Global Warming: Early Warnings Signs site.
Teachers' Guide to High Quality Educational Materials on Climate Change and Global Warming provides guidance to understanding climate change materials on the web, and links to other sites
Paleontological Research Institution (affiliated with Cornell University) provides links to many other climate change sites for information, charts, photos, lesson plans
National Wildlife Federation Global Warming Site contains detailed information on many related topics
Climate Connections for information and news stories on climate change and global warming from National Public Radio
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assesses scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation
Climate Change information from National Center for Atmospheric Research & the UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) Office of Programs; links for educators and for children
Understanding Climate Change: From Global Warming to Regional Climate Change from the National Center for Atmospheric Research & the UCAR Office of Programs
Birds in a Changing Climate is the theme for International Migratory Bird Day 2007 with a poster, Climate Challenge Game related to climate impacts on birds, and other resources
Global Climate Change searchable database of curriculum, by keyword or by subject, maintained by the Center for Environmental Education Online
Pew Center on Global Climate Change strives to provide credible information, straight answers, and innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change.
Global Warming - Kids Page developed by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change for students learning about climate change
Global Warming 101 a Will Steger Foundation with a lot of information on climate change and actions to help slow the process. Teachers can also sign in to gain access to lesson plans approved by National Geographic Xpeditions and the Union of Concerned Scientists.
