This lesson connects scientific data to different types of visualizations. Students learn how art can help enhance science communication and enliven data. It provides opportunities for students to understand climate change using different tools.

In this activity, students will use journaling prompts to make personal connections to climate change including what they have observed, what motivates them to interact with the subject, and possible connections to resilience. They use these ideas to construct a climate story and reflect on their perspectives in small groups and as a class.

In this comprehensive climate change curricula from EcoRise, students will discuss the likelihood that different groups of people will experience the negative impacts of climate changes (risk) and the factors that contribute to the degree of danger they might face (vulnerability). A role-play activity supports an understanding of how climate change affects individuals and groups differently based on social factors such as income, education, race and ethnicity, and age.

In this lesson students learn about how temperature values can vary depending on color (white vs. black) and light (direct light vs. shade) by making a hypothesis and testing it with thermometers. Students learn about strategies to keep cool during extreme heat.

This activity involves building a tiny, wind-powered elevator in the form of a small cup lifted by a pinwheel. The elevator could be used to lift things from the ground floor to the second floor of a house you make from shoe boxes.

This activity focuses on adapting to climate change and building resilience to heavy rainfalls in the context of a garden. Students devise, create, and test ideas for protecting a garden from heavy rains.

This resource outlines an engaging role-play activity in which students apply knowledge of wildfire mitigation, preparedness, and resilience to planning for community wildfire preparedness. The game also includes content related to the mental health impacts of wildfire, multicultural needs and responses, and housing availability and affordability.

This is an in-depth activity that focuses on Wisconsin ecosystem characteristics and energy flow within ecosystems. The activity is lengthy, but selected parts of it could be adapted to a variety of teaching situations.

This activity provides information on how to access and use a wealth of data and tools from NOAA to analyze climate through time. A video tutorial and background information are provided and show students how to interact with and use tools to analyze temperature and precipitation data for specific cities, states, countries, and the world.

This activity focuses on cloud identification and art. It combines art and science and uses art history to help students in their observations and cloud descriptions.