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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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Vanishing Island: Sea Level Rise
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This video features interviews with native people living on atoll islands in Micronesia, so viewers are able to understand the real, current threats that these people are facing due to climate change.

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Physical Science
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Reading
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Jim Lyon
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Massy Halbert
Mike Yasutake
Date Added:
02/07/2023
Visualizing the 2012 Sea Ice Minimum
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This interactive visualization from the NASA Earth Observatory website compares Arctic sea ice minimum extent from 1984 to that of 2012.

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Physical Science
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Jesse Allen
Michon Scott
Mike Carlowicz
NASA Earth Observatory
Date Added:
02/07/2023
Vostok Core and Milankovic Cycles Climate Applet
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An applet about the Milankovitch cycle that relates temperature over the last 400,000 years to changes in the eccentricity, precession, and orbital tilt of Earth's orbit.

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Physical Science
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Tom Whittaker
University of Wisconsin
Date Added:
01/22/2018
Vostok Ice Core: Excel (Mac or PC)
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This activity with a lab report instructs students to solve and plot 160,000 years' worth of ice core data from the Vostok ice core using Excel or similar spreadsheets to analyze data. Students learn about ice cores and what they can tell us about past atmospheric conditions and the past atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and CH4.

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Physical Science
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Starting Point Collection, Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Stephanie Pfirman
Date Added:
01/22/2018
Warmer Water Kills Salmon Eggs
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In this video segment, adapted from a student video produced at Northwest Indian College in Bellingham Washington, Native American elders discuss the impact of climate change on salmon populations and the importance of restoring balance in the natural world.

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Physical Science
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Teachers' Domain
WGBH
Date Added:
02/07/2023
A Warmer World for Arctic Animals
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This video documents the challenges that climate change presents for four specific Arctic predators: polar bears, Arctic foxes, beluga whales, and walruses.

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Physical Science
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KQED
Teachers' Domain
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02/07/2023
A Warming World
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Two graphs from the NASA Climate website illustrate the change in global surface temperature relative to 1951-1980 average temperatures. The NASA plot is annotated with temperature-impacting historic events, which nicely connect an otherwise challenging graphic to real-world events.

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Physical Science
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Reading
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NASA
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Date Added:
02/07/2023
Water: A Zero Sum Game
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This video takes viewers high into the Rocky Mountain snowpack, where researchers dig snow pits to explore the source of Colorado's water supply. Highlights the importance of snowpack on the supply of fresh water available in western and southwestern states. Snowmelt dynamics are discussed, including the impact of a warming climate.

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Physical Science
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Learn More About Climate
University of Colorado Boulder
Date Added:
02/07/2023
Water, Water, Everywhere
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This classroom demonstration illustrates the amount of water stored in various parts of the Earth system in a straightforward manner. Students estimate the proportions of water in the oceans, icecaps and glaciers, groundwater, freshwater lakes, inland seas, soil moisture, atmosphere, and rivers. Then they fill beakers with the actual proportion and discuss what elements of the activity were surprising to them. Information on flash floods and flood preparedness and safety are included.

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Physical Science
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National Weather Service
Date Added:
02/07/2023
Water, Water Everywhere
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This is a short NASA video on the water cycle. The video shows the importance of the water cycle to nearly every natural process on Earth and illustrates how tightly coupled the water cycle is to climate.

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Physical Science
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NASA
Date Added:
02/07/2023
Weather Girl Goes Rogue
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This humorous video suggests what might happen if a weather forecaster reported the weather in the context of climate change. There is a sharp contrast between the anchor focusing on short-term local concerns and the weather forecaster describing what is happening on a long-term global basis.

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Physical Science
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Deep Rogue Ram
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Date Added:
02/07/2023
Weather and Climate Events
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This detailed animated map shows global weather and climate events from the beginning of 2009 to the present. As the animation plays, specific events are highlighted to provide context and details for the viewer.

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Physical Science
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American Museum of Natural History
Date Added:
01/22/2018
West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide: Modeling our Future Climate
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In this video, students see how data from the ice core record is used to help scientists predict the future of our climate. Video features ice cores extracted from the WAIS Divide, a research station on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

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Physical Science
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Activity/Lab
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National Science Foundation
WAIS Divide Ice Core
Date Added:
02/07/2023
What Could A Hurricane Do To My Home?
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This activity examines the impacts of hurricanes and storm surges on coastal communities.

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Physical Science
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Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
Date Added:
02/07/2023
What Does Carbon Dioxide Have To Do With Global Warming?
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In this video Dr. Richard Alley poses and addresses a simple question: What does carbon dioxide have to do with global warming?

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Physical Science
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Environmental Literacy and Inquiry Working Group, Lehigh University
Richard Alley
Date Added:
02/07/2023
What Is Ocean Acidification?
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This static image from NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Carbon Program offers a visually compelling and scientifically sound image of the sea water carbonate chemistry process that leads to ocean acidification and impedes calcification.

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Physical Science
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NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Carbon Group
Date Added:
01/22/2018
What are the causes and effects of ENSO?
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This activity addresses naturally occurring climate change involving ENSO (El-NiÃo Southern Oscillation). In this activity, students play the role of a policy maker in Peru. First, they determine what sort of ENSO variation is occurring. Then, they must decide how to allocate Peru's resources to manage for possible weather-related problems.

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Physical Science
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Activity/Lab
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From the On The Cutting Edge activity collection
Sarah Bednarz
Texas AM University
Date Added:
01/22/2018
What causes the sea level to change?s
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This visualization explains in simple and easy-to-understand visuals the causes of sea-level change.

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Physical Science
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UNEP/GRID-Arendal
Date Added:
02/07/2023
What do You Know about Climate Change?
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This online quiz tests knowledge about climate change, its impacts, how we know about earth's climate, and potential solutions.

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Physical Science
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Activity/Lab
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American Museum of Natural History
Ology
Date Added:
02/06/2023