In this lesson, students explore the importance of albedo (or reflectivity) to penguins and the surfaces they inhabit and learn how penguin colonies may be mapped using satellites.

In this lesson, students investigate whether other parts of the world are changing and getting hotter just like Colorado.

This is a video introduction from National Geographic about weather and climate with a follow-up read and respond activity.

Disease Prevention/Health Promotion is a lesson designed by a Health and Physical Education Teacher to support Health instruction. Created By: Willie Miles Powhatan County Public Schools

This jigsaw activity introduces students with Arctic weather data using a role-playing activity that has students read and interpret graphs while considering the optimal time to plan a research mission to the Arctic.

In this activity, students use authentic Arctic climate data to explore albedo and its relationship to seasonal snowmelt as a self-reinforcing feedback mechanism, which is then applied to large scale global climate change.

This activity introduces students to the Arctic and Arctic climate. Through a virtual exploration of the geography of the Arctic students become familiar with the region. They are then introduced to meteorological parameters that Arctic research teams use.

Build your own miniature "greenhouse" out of a plastic container and plastic wrap, and fill it with different things such as dirt and sand to observe the effect this has on temperature. Monitor the temperature using temperature probes and digitally plot the data on the graphs provided in the activity.

Explore how the Earth's atmosphere affects the energy balance between incoming and outgoing radiation. Using an interactive model, adjust realistic parameters such as how many clouds are present or how much carbon dioxide is in the air, and watch how these factors affect the global temperature.

In this design challenge lesson students explore the Denver Public School District���s solid waste plan and discuss how their school can save or decrease emissions by reducing solid waste at our school.

This lesson provides guidance for students to create and practice a presentation about design challenge results that they developed in the previous unit lessons and how to present it to the school administration.

In this activity students utilize collected data and propose solutions to mitigate food waste in their school.

This lesson outlines for students how to design and carry out an investigation to audit their school���s food waste system.

Students explore the greenhouse effect in this lesson using a computer simulation and develop a model for how it works.

In this design challenge lesson, students examine their school food system and develop an investigation about food waste in order to know what should change.

In this lesson, students investigate the life history characteristics of different Antarctic penguin species and identify the changes that their populations have experienced.

In this lesson, students explore how human activities will continue to impact Antarctic ice, discuss human contributions to climate change, and investigate what we can do to stop/reverse these negative effects.

This is a review and introduction to climate change using videos from National Geographic. It includes a follow up research activity on the impact of climate change on specific biomes around the globe.

This lesson explores if it is normal that world temperatures are rising at the currently observed fast pace.

Students are expected to know the location of the latitudinal climate zones on the SOL assessment.  This is a simple Google Form you can use as a bell ringer, review, or quiz for students on low, middle and high climate zones.  The form is collecting email addresses, but you can unclick that box on settings (top right of the form) and it will work like a survey.  You can then go over how the entire class answered without revealing anyone's answers. There are other settings you can change to suit yourself including locking the quiz so that it can only be used on chromebooks.