Resources For Educators: Climate Change
Part of the Climate Change exhibition.
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Educators Guide for Materials
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Climate Change Educator's Guide
Get an advance look at the exhibition's major themes and what your class will encounter. This eight-page guide for K-12 educators includes a Map of the Exhibition, Essential Questions (important background content), Teaching in the Exhibition (self-guided explorations), Come Prepared Checklist, Correlation to Standards, and Glossary.
See possible answers to the guiding questions featured in the guide.
Science and Literacy Activities
Online Resources
Ology: Climate Change for Kids
Explore big ideas about climate change and energy use, find energy-saving tips, build a terrarium, and more.
Additional Web Links
NASA: Goddard Institute for Space Studies: Institute on Climate and Planets
These lessons and modules are driven by fundamental questions and topics scientists deal with in climate and environmental research.
NOAA: Global Warming Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently asked questions about global warming are answered here.
NOAA: Paleoclimatology
Explore how scientists collect climatic data from the past, before the days of the thermometer, barometer, rain gauge, and other weather instruments.