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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network

CLEAN: The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network supports educators in building climate literacy as outlined in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program framework, “Essential Principles of Climate Literacy” by providing a collection of educational resources that facilitate learning about climate issues. The CLEAN collection is a free online database of ~1,000 free, peer-reviewed, and ready-to-use educational resources for teaching elementary, middle, high school, and undergraduate students about climate and energy. The collection contains activities, demonstrations, experiments, visualizations, and videos—everything you need to create data-rich and authentic lessons on climate and energy. Climate and energy topics include the climate system, causes of climate change, measuring and modeling climate, impacts of climate change, human responses and solutions to climate change, energy use, mental health, environmental justice, and many more. Resources are rigorously reviewed for scientific accuracy and pedagogic relevancy, making the CLEAN collection of high enough quality to steward the NOAA Teaching Climate database.

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Surging Seas
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This interactive map allows the user to explore projected alterations of land surfaces in coastal communities, based on different scenarios of sea level changes over time.

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Physical Science
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Simulation
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:
Climate Central
Date Added:
02/07/2023
Surging Seas Risk Finder
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This is a multi-step, interactive tool for users to identify potential risks (to people, buildings, infrastructure, contamination, land) for selected coastal areas in the US, using scenarios of water level rising (as a result of tides, sea level rise, and storm surge) from 0-10 feet. Tool provides local, regional and national resources as guidance for managing risk.

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Physical Science
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Simulation
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
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Climate Central
Date Added:
02/07/2023
Take Aim At Climate Change
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This music video features a rap song about some of the causes and effects of climate change with the goal of increasing awareness of climate change and how it will impact nature and humans.

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Physical Science
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Polar Palooza.com
Date Added:
01/22/2018
Team Marine - Young Voices for the Planet
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This video clip highlights the effort on by a group of young students to ban the use of plastic shopping bags in the city of Santa Monica. The video documents the effort and provides visual testimony of the effects that trash and specifically plastic bags have on the ocean ecosystem.

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Physical Science
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Activity/Lab
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
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Young Voices for the Planet
Date Added:
01/22/2018
Technologies that Reduce Greenhouse Gases
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This interactive visualization provides information in text, graphic, and video format about renewable energy technologies. Resource in the Student's Guide to Global Climate Change, part of EPA Climate Change Division.

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Physical Science
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Author:
EPA
Date Added:
02/07/2023
Temperature: Decadal Averages Map
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This interactive map allows students to experiment with decadal average temperature projections. Overall temperatures are expected to rise throughout the century and this tool demonstrates those projected measurements.

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Physical Science
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Simulation
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California Energy Commission
Date Added:
02/07/2023
Temperature and CO2 concentration in the atmosphere over the past 400,000 years
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This visualization graphically displays temperature and CO2 concentration in the atmosphere as derived from ice core data from 400,000 years ago to 1950. The data originates from UNEP GRID Arendal's graphic library of CO2 levels from Vostok ice core.

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Physical Science
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Activity/Lab
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
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UNEP Grid Arendal
Date Added:
02/07/2023
Temperature and precipitation as limiting factors in ecosystems
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This classroom activity is aimed at an understanding of different ecosystems by understanding the influence of temperature and precipitation. Students correlate graphs of vegetation vigor with those of temperature and precipitation data for four diverse ecosystems, ranging from near-equatorial to polar, and spanning both hemispheres to determine which climatic factor is limiting growth.

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Physical Science
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GLOBE Project
Date Added:
02/07/2023
Temperature from Ice Core Data (IRMS)
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This visualization shows in five steps how ice cores provide a measure of the temperature in the past.

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Physical Science
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B. Martin
B. Vandenbrink
K. Genius
King's Center for Visualization in Science
N. Mahaffy
P. Mahaffy
Date Added:
02/07/2023
Ten Signs of a Warming World
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This is an interactive website that provides descriptive information and data related to ten key climate indicators. These climate indicators and related resources show global patterns and data that are intuitive and compelling teaching tools.

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Physical Science
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Simulation
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
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(NOAA)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Date Added:
02/07/2023
Texas: Wind and Efficiency - Earth: The Operators' Manual
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This engaging video focuses on national and global wind energy potential by specifically highlighting Texas' role as wind energy leader and energy efficiency efforts in Houston, Texas.

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Physical Science
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Activity/Lab
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Earth: Operators' Manual
Geoff Haines-Stiles Productions
Date Added:
01/22/2018
There's a Thief in My Kitchen (energy efficiency of different lightbulbs)
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In this activity, students calculate the cost of the energy used to operate a common three-bulb light fixture, and compare the costs and amount of CO2 produced for similar incandescent and compact fluorescent light bulbs.

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Physical Science
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Activity/Lab
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:
Connecticut Energy Education
Date Added:
02/07/2023
Thermal Expansion and Sea Level Rise
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In this short but effective demonstration/experiment, students investigate how thermal expansion of water might affect sea level.

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Physical Science
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Activity/Lab
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:
Lisa Gardiner
Windows to the Universe
Date Added:
02/07/2023
Thermal Expansion of Water
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This is a short experiment to demonstrate the concept of thermal expansion of water when heated, as an analogy to thermal expansion of oceans due to global warming.

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Physical Science
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Simulation
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ARM Climate Research Facility
Date Added:
02/07/2023
The Thermohaline Circulation - The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt
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This NASA animation depicts thermohaline circulation in the ocean and how it relates to salinity and water density. It illustrates the sinking of water in the cold, dense ocean near Iceland and Greenland. The surface of the ocean then fades away and the animation pulls back to show the global thermohaline circulation system.

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Atmospheric Science
Earth and Space Science
Oceanography
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Activity/Lab
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Date Added:
01/22/2018
To Boldly Go...
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This web-based activity tackles the broad reasons for undertaking ocean exploration - studying the interconnected issues of climate change, ocean health, energy and human health. Students examine the types of technology ocean scientists use to collect important data.

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Physical Science
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Activity/Lab
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:
Mel Goodwin
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Date Added:
01/22/2018
Too Much Carbon Dioxide
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This short animated video provides a general overview of the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, and the greenhouse effect.

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Physical Science
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Activity/Lab
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:
Utah Education Network
Date Added:
02/07/2023
A Tour of the Cryosphere 2009
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This video shows some of the most dramatic fluctuations to our cryosphere in recent years, using visuals created with a variety of satellite-based data.

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Physical Science
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Activity/Lab
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
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NASA
NASAexplorer
Date Added:
02/07/2023
Tree Rings: Counting the Years of Global Warming
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This video describes the role that dendrochronology plays in understanding climate change, especially changes to high elevation environments at an upper tree line. Dendrochronologists from the Big Sky Institute sample living and dead trees, describe how correlations between trees are made, and explain how tree cores record climate changes.

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Physical Science
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Activity/Lab
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
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CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network
Author:
Worksyn Productions
Date Added:
02/07/2023