Science

This lesson introduces students to green building practices and their benefits. Students collaborate to design their own green building, conduct an energy audit of their school and use the resulting data to suggest ways to improve the school's energy efficiency and reduce its carbon output.

In this lesson from Keystone Science School, students apply the concepts of ice core analysis to measure atmospheric CO2 concentrations from 1006 A.D. to 1978 A.D. Register for free with Keystone Science School to access the lesson plan.

This activity, developed by Smithsonian Education, introduces students to environmental topics using fun and challenging real-world math problems. Students determine average annual temperatures 55 million years ago by examining the fossils of leaves from various prehistoric tree species.

This activity, developed by NASA, integrates a series of activities to introduce changes in water, ice and soil as well as understanding how they reflect climate.

In this activity developed by NASA, students develop a basic understanding of the relationship between cloud type and the form of precipitation. They also explore the relationship between the amount of water in the atmosphere available for precipitation and the actual precipitation observed by satellite.

This lesson prepared by NOVA examines temperature data over ten years. Students use a statistical analysis technique, the moving average, to search for meaningful trends in the raw temperature data.

In this Illuminations activity by the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics, students gather weather data, interpret the information and make a stem-and-leaf plot to illustrate patterns.

Students track the weather over a month-long period using basic weather instruments, chart the information, and make predictions based on their observations.

In this lesson developed by the University of Colorado at Boulder, students learn about the different climatic regions and the factors that determine climate. They also explore how engineers enable humans to adapt to living in most environments by designing buildings, water systems and other technologies.

In this National Geographic Education activity, students study how weather is measured. Students will learn about the different instruments used to measure weather, the various units of measure and predict what instruments might be useful to measure weather on other planets.