Climate Education

Many organizations have developed educational resources to both inform the public about climate impacts, and support curriculum for educators. This list includes climate, environmental and scientific educational resources intended to broaden understandings of climate change and climate impacts. This page also includes links to videos and educational talks relevant to tribal climate change issues.

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Stanford University: Climate Change Education Project

Stanford's Climate Change Education Project offers free curriculum to teach about what drives climate change, climate impacts, and other climate issues; curriculum is for grades 6-12.

Categories: Climate Impacts, Education, Curriculum

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Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College

Engaging participants from more than 1,000 institutions of higher education, as well as K-12 curriculum developers and teachers, SERC has created one of the world's largest collections of pedagogic resources.

Categories: Science Education, Curriculum, Educational Resources

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Safe Water Program Improvement e-Learning Series (SWPI)

SWPI helps health department programs strengthen services to people that use wells, cisterns, springs, and other private drinking water systems not covered by the Safe Drinking Water Act. Oversight for these systems vary, but core elements of successful, sustainable programs are similar. SWPI walks through the 10 Essential Environmental Public Health Services and the Environmental Public Health Performance Standards, and provides examples of using them to identify and fill program gaps in these types of drinking water programs.

Categories: Tribal Health, public health, sustainability, well water, safe drinking water

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SACNAS (Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science): Native Resources in Sciences

SACNAS has developed a list of resources authored by Native scientists, and addressing science education in Native communities.

Categories: Science, Native American

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Oceanservice Education Curriculum

The NOAA Ocean Service Curriculum provides a variety of curriculums available, suggested for grades 6-12, which provide education for students on ocean, coral, estuary, and other marine environments.

Categories: Marine, Education

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Ocean Acidification Curriculum

This collection of free resources on OA (ocean acidification) funded and supported by the EPA, USFWS, the Suquamish Tribe, the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission and Washington Sea Grant, has been developed for educators and communicators, for K-12th grade students.

Categories: Marine, Education

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Native One Stop

NativeOneStop.gov was launched in an effort to provide American Indians and Alaska Natives with easy, online access to Federal resources and programs. NativeOneStop.gov is a partnership of many Federal agencies and organizations with a shared vision – to provide improved, personalized access to Federal resources and programs for American Indians and Alaska Natives. NativeOneStop.gov will make it easier for tribes, Alaska Natives, and American Indians to find services, receive consistent information, and streamline outreach and services by Federal agencies. The site's core function is the eligibility prescreening questionnaire or "Resources Finder." Answers to the questionnaire are used to evaluate a visitor's situation and compare it with the eligibility criteria for resources and programs. Each program description provides visitors with the next steps to apply for any resource or program of interest.

Categories: federal resources, climate change

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Native Fire- Safe Use and Application of Prescribed Fire

"Native Fire" discusses Native American's historic use of fire and addresses how traditional practices in the southern plains states have influenced its modern-day application. In it, fire research specialists speak to this history and address some of the complex challenges facing landscapes today. The 13-minute video also explains why fire is an essential and timeless tool that is necessary for maintaining and restoring ecosystems that evolved with fire. When safely applied by professionals at the right time, in the right way, for the right reasons, these prescribed fires reduce vegetation buildup, help protect our communities and restores our fire-dependent ecosystems.

Categories: prescribed fire, traditional ecological knowledge, ecosystem restoration, community

Southern Plains Link
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL): Workforce Development and Education Programs

This program is aimed at promoting the development of skilled workers in STEM fields, working with renewable energy. As part of the program, NREL has developed educational resources and tools for grades 4-12.

Categories: Science, Education, Renewable Energy

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): National Climate Assessment (NCA) Teaching Resources

The National Climate Assessment offers a wealth of actionable science about the causes, effects, risks and possible responses to human-caused climate change. NOAA, the NCAnet Education Affinity Group, and members of the CLEAN Network have developed a series of guides for educators that focus on the regional chapters of the Assessment Report, helping to unpack the key messages of each region and point to related, high-quality online resources.

Categories: Education, Climate Assessment, Climate Science, Data

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): Educational Graphics on Climate Change

NOAA has developed a series of educational multi-media graphics to help explain climate change processes.

Categories: Climate Science, Data, Education

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): Climate Education Resources

This website includes multimedia, climate data, and educational unites about climate change impacts in the US.

Categories: Education, Climate Impacts, Climate Data

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climate Data Center--Global Climate Change

NCDC is the world's largest active archive of weather data. NCDC produces numerous climate publications and responds to data requests from all over the world. NCDC provides climate data resources on this website.

Categories: Climate Science, Data

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Global Warming Factsheet

NOAA has summarized information within the IPCC AR4 international climate assessment and presents the data in an easy-to-read, brief manner.

Categories: Climate Science, Data

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) El Nino Theme Page

NOAA has collected a list of outside educational resources on El Nino and La Nina events.

Categories: El Nino, Climate Science, Education

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Education Resources

NOAA maintains a website of educational resources, which includes information on current climate science, funding and educational opportunities for students and educators, updates on NOAA education programs, and upcoming events and programs.

Categories: Education, Climate Science

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Ready Great Lakes

Climate Ready Great Lakes consists of three modules designed to help create a Great Lakes region that is “climate ready.” Toward this end, these modules provide stakeholders and decision makers with clear information about Great Lakes climate, as well as what we need to adapt to, why, and how.

Categories: Climate Science, Adaptation, Assessment, Education

Great Lakes, Midwest, Northeast Link
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center

The Climate Prediction Center provides real-time predictions for precipitation, temperature, drought and other hazards across the US and select territories.

Categories: Climate Data, Climate Impacts

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Literacy Guide

In an effort to promote climate literacy, scientists, formal and informal educators, and representatives of a range of U.S. agencies participated in developing and vetting a list of the most important concepts in climate science. The document they produced — Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science — reflects a broad and current effort to define climate literacy.

Categories: Education, Climate Impacts

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National Congress of American Indians: Climate Data Tools Page

This is a full page of links to NCAI's recently released policy update on climate change and climate change data, followed by an extensive compilation of data-based resources that will inform tribal decision-making about climate action.
The list complies many resources from government and tribal entities to track climate changes.

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National Center for Science Education (NCSE): Climate Education

Long respected for its work in defending and supporting the teaching of evolution in the public schools, in 2012 NCSE launched this new initiative to defend and support the teaching of climate change. This section of the website includes the four main sections of the climate change education resources here.

Categories: Education, Climate Change

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Soil Moisture Active Pressure (SMAP)

SMAP is a satellite designed to measure soil moisture over a three-year period, every 2-3 days. This permits changes, around the world, to be observed over time scales ranging from major storms to repeated measurements of changes over the seasons. As part of this project NASA has also developed educational materials

Categories: Climate Education, Climate Science, Data

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): Mission Science

Mission: Science is provided by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate to engage students in NASA Science and showcase educational resources created by NASA and its partners.

Categories: Science, Education

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Wavelength

NASA Wavelength is your pathway into a digital collection of Earth and space science resources for educators of all levels – from elementary to college, to out-of-school programs. These resources, developed through funding of the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD), have undergone a peer-review process through which educators and scientists ensure the content is accurate and useful in an educational setting.

Categories: Climate Science, Science Curriculum

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Precipitation Education

his website, presented by NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, provides students and educators with resources to learn about Earth’s water cycle, weather and climate, and the technology and societal applications of studying them.

Categories: Precipitation Education, Curriculum, Climate Science

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ozone Resources

NASA has cataloged existing research about the ozone layer, and hosts web resources on ozone-related scientific data, including a live ozone hole watch.

Categories: Ozone Layer, Climate data

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) For Educators

NASA's Science Education Program creates products using NASA's results in Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science, and Astrophysics research. The program sponsors educational activities at all levels of formal and informal education to provide opportunities for learners to investigate their world and their universe using unique NASA resources.

Categories: Education, Science

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Science Division

A major component of NASA’s Earth Science Division is a coordinated series of satellite and airborne missions for long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere, and oceans. This coordinated approach enables an improved understanding of the Earth as an integrated system.

Categories: Climate Science, Climate Data

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Climate Portal

This site includes a wealth of information and data about climate impacts, as well as support for educators and interactive tools for youth.

Categories: Youth, Climate Education, Climate Science, Data, Curriculum

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More Than Scientists

More Than Scientists is a network, and community of scientists, making up 97% of the scientific community, as scientist and people who believe in climate change and are committed to addressing anthropogenic impacts on the Earth's climate. Here, scientists and anyone interested in climate science convene to discuss, share and learn new knowledge, facts, stories and news in relation to our changing environment. The network and its constituents are dedicated to understanding the Earth and climate science.

Categories: Climate Science, Environmental Justice, Education

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