Ten Activities to Introduce You to the Essential Principles of Climate Science
- How does the sun drive Earth's climate system?
- How have plants, animals, and humans affected Earth's climate?
- How do the ocean, ice, clouds and atmospheric gases affect the impact of the Sun's energy on the Earth?
- How may Earth's changing climate affect plants, animals, and humans?
Are you ready to discover your changing world? This free activity book will introduce you to The Essential Principles of Climate Science, help you learn about Earth's climate system, the factors that drive and change it, the impacts of those changes, and what you can do to explore, understand, and protect our Earth. Download the full activity book or individual activities below. Have Fun!
Full Activity Book: Discover Your Changing World with NOAA (8.5 MB , pdf)- Activity 1: The Great Glowing Orb: Make a Solar Heat Engine (611 KB, pdf)
- Activity 2: The Climate Team: Make a Solar Cooker (1.5 MB, pdf)
- Activity 3: Climate Is Our Friend…Isn't It? : Make an Extinction Polyhedron (621 KB, pdf)
- Activity 4: Climate, Weather…What's the Difference? : Make an Electronic Temperature Sensor (474 KB, pdf)
- Activity 5: How Do We Know? : Make Additional Weather Sensors and Set Up a Home Weather Station (799 KB, pdf)
- Activity 6: I Didn't Do It…Did I? : Make Your Own Greenhouse Effect (1.3 MB, pdf)
- Activity 7: Why Should I Care? : Show How Increased Carbon Dioxide Makes the Ocean More Acidic (295 KB, pdf)
- Activity 8: Are You Climate Literate? : Play the Essential Principles Challenge (Paper version; 1.3 MB, pdf)
Are You Climate Literate? : The Essentials Principles Challenge (PowerPoint version; 624 KB, ppt)
- Activity 9: Communicate! : Create a Unique Message About Climate Change (399 KB, pdf)
- Activity 10: The Incredible Carbon Journey: Play the Carbon Journey Game (2.0 MB, pdf)
- Activity Alignment to Next Generation Science Standards, Climate Literacy and Energy Literacy Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts (60 KB, pdf)
- Link: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/discoverclimate/
