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• Digital Library for Earth Systems Education
  DLESE's educational resources include lesson plans, scientific data, visualizations, interactive computer models, and virtual field trips.
• Energy Education Lesson Plans and Activities
  The U.S. Department of Energy has an array of lesson plans and activities centered on renewable energy.

Grades 6-8

• Climate Change: Connections and Solutions
  A two-week curriculum unit that encourages students to think critically about climate change and to collaborate to devise solutions.
• CO₂ in Car Exhaust
  Students will investigate the carbon dioxide content in different types of cars.
• Cycles of the Earth and Atmosphere
  This online module is designed to help middle school students learn about climate change and issues related to both stratospheric and tropospheric ozone.
• Degrees of Change: Conservation in My Community (pdf)
  Students learn about global warming and their community's conservation efforts. Students develop and complete a project documenting, via reporting or photography, a local conservation effort.
• Differences Between Climate And Weather
  This exercise helps students understand the differences between climate and weather by comparing daily weather data with average data for their hometown.
• Global Climate Change: Understanding the Greenhouse Effect
  In this lesson, students learn about ways in which we study past climate change, and reflect on the present condition of Earth's climate.
• Global Warming (pdf)
  Conduct research using a variety of primary sources to explore perspectives in the global warming debate.
• Greenhouse Gases Lesson Plan (pdf)
  Students explore the unique properties of greenhouse gases, which allow these gases to influence the surface temperature of a planet.
• How We Know What We Know about Our Changing Climate
  This Science NetLinks lesson will help students understand the scientific research into climate change and the role of citizen scientists in helping professional scientists generate data to track the problem and devise solutions.
• Prehistoric Climate Change: Why It Matters Today
  In this lesson students will calculate temperatures in the prehistoric world by using a method called “leaf-margin analysis.”

Grades 9-12

• Abrupt Climate Change
  This Science NetLinks lesson has students explore how scientific knowledge changes in the context of abrupt climate change.
• Climate and CO₂: Analyzing Their Relationship
  In this Xpeditions lesson, students speculate about the future of world climate if the greenhouse effect increases.
• Climate Change: Connections and Solutions
  A two-week curriculum unit that encourages students to think critically about climate change and to collaborate to devise solutions.
• Environmental Literacy & Inquiry
  This extensive energy curriculum gives students the opportunity to learn more about forms, extraction, production, and consumption of energy.
• Simulating Climate Change Research in Grasslands
  This lesson provides you with an opportunity to explore the climate change concept with your students in more depth.
• Who Will Take the Heat?
  In this activity from the PBS Nova program, students will learn about the environmental, economic, and political issues surrounding global climate change policy and will specifically compare the emissions of the U.S. and China, the two largest producers of emissions that cause global warming.