MIT Coastal Climate Change Toolkit
A Scientific Framework with Hands-On Experiments
Embedded Files
Environmental Explainers:
Extreme and changing weather
What is it? How is it changing? Why does it matter?
Start here:
How Do Hurricanes Form? (NOAA)
How Do Hurricanes Form?
NOAA - National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration
Video (<3 min), all animated. comes from this site https://scijinks.gov/hurricane/ with a lot more info and graphics on formation of hurricanes.
Recommend for lower middle school and up.
How Hurricanes Form (NGSS)
How Hurricanes Form
Next Generation Science
Video (3 min) that includes video clips of hurricanes and hurricane formation as well as animation.
Recommend for upper middle school and up.
Climate change increased wind speeds for every 2024 Atlantic hurricane: Analysis
Climate Central
Short report on hurricane research, connecting climate change indicators to hurricane wind speeds.
Recommend for middle school and up.
Extreme Makeover: Human Activities Are Making Some Extreme Events More Frequent or Intense
NASA
Short article stating that there is increasing confidence that human-induced climate change is making extreme events, such as heat waves, rainfall and flooding events, droughts, storms, and wildfires, statistically much more likely.
Recommend for high school and up.
Learn more:
Hurricane season: How water vapor helps tropical storms develop
Hurricane season: How water vapor helps tropical storms develop
Detroit Local 4
Video 2 min, from August 2023 newscast, explains how hurricanes form from warm water and wind and people can look at weather maps to see when they are possible,
Recommend for high school and up.
https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/hurricanes.html
How does the ocean affect hurricanes?
NOAA Ocean Exploration
Brief description of hurricane formation.
Recommended for middle school and up.
2024: An active year of U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters
Climate.gov
Good article outlining impacts of climate change on regions of the US.
Recommend for high school and up.
Climate Basics: Extreme Weather
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Overview page with links to articles explaining the scientific connection between climate change and several types of extreme weather events.
Recommend for middle school and up.
Extreme weather
Extreme Weather
World Meterological Organization
Summary of extreme weather events and their impacts around the globe. Published by the World Meteorological Organization. https://wmo.int/topics/extreme-weather
Recommend for high school and up.
We’d love to hear how you used this tool in your community, how the students responded, and your suggestions to improve the experiments and other resources. Contact us at ccsae@mit.edu.
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