Warm-up Activities

NYT 24 Graphs

Rolling the Dice on Disaster

More energy in the environment leads to more possibility of natural disasters. 

NCSE website of teacher resources

Rolling the dice activity

Histogram

Steroids in Baseball - Homeruns - Climate Change video connection

Going to the “ends of the Earth” takes you to the Arctic and the Antarctic. This activity engages students in sorting picture cards comparing similarities and differences between the Polar Regions in a table-sized Venn Diagram.





Students play a game of cards to learn how scientists study nature.

Consensus, Direct and Proxy Measurement Warm-Up.

A short warm up to introduce building consensus, making direct measurements, making proxy measurements, and the basics of ice core dating.  Available to download as a Keynote or Powerpoint presentation.

Snowflake Science

There are two versions of this presentation available.  Version-1 is a short warm-up activity to introduce the snow-firn-ice transition.  Available in Version-1 Keynote and Version-1 Powerpoint.  There is also a full blown introductory activity to snow that takes about an hour+.  This activity begins by making paper snowflakes, ends with the warm-up type exploration of the snow-firn-ice transition.  Version-2 Keynote and Version-2 Powerpoints are available.

The war for carbonate ions in the ocean

Developed at 2018 EARTH workshop ....lesson is liked HERE

Climate Anxiety 

Video addressing climate gloom and doom with students