How Green Are You? Climate Change: A Wisconsin Activity Guide. Grades 7-12. http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/teacher/Climateguide/pdf/02-3639-greenyou.pdf. This section of the activity guide provides an activity and worksheets to help students understand how their personal choices affect climate change and how they can reduce their negative impacts. Global Climate Change: The Effects of Global Warming.

Teachers’ Domain. Grades 9-12. http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.watcyc.lp_global2/. The activity follows a progression that examines the CO2 content of various gases, explores the changes in the atmospheric levels of CO2 from 1958 to 2000 from the Mauna Loa Keeling curve, and the relationship between CO2 and temperature over the past 160,000 years. This provides a foundation for examining individuals' input of CO2 to the atmosphere and how to reduce it.

The Chemistry of Climate Change. Climate Change: A Wisconsin Activity Guide. Wisconsin DNR. Grades 7-12. http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/teacher/Climateguide/pdf/02-2629-chemistry.pdf. This section of the Activity Guide provides an activity to help students identify the sources of air pollution and possible solutions.

Power to the People. Climate Change: A Wisconsin Activity Guide. Wisconsin DNR. Grades 7-12. http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/teacher/Climateguide/pdf/02-3035-powerpeople.pdf. This section of the Activity Guide provides an activity and worksheets to help students understand the common sources of energy in Wisconsin, how power is distributed, and how energy use impacts the environment and climate change. Emissions of Heat-trapping Gasses.

Your Climate, Your Future by World Wildlife Federation. Grades 9-12. http://www.worldwildlife.org/climate/curriculum/WWFBinaryitem5962.pdf. Record how much energy they use at home to calculate their own carbon footprint. Students learn about atmospheric concentrations of heat-trapping gases and make predictions while identifying the sources of emissions.

Car Quest. Your Climate, Your Future by World Wildlife Federation. Grades 9-12. http://www.worldwildlife.org/climate/curriculum/WWFBinaryitem5970.pdf. Assess the environmental impacts of a fleet of cars and then research and prepare a report about greener transportation choices.

Lesson 4: My Carbon Footprint. Climate Change: Connections and Solutions, Grades 6-8. http://www.facingthefuture.org/Curriculum/ClimateChangeGrades68/tabid/453/Default.aspx. Students calculate their carbon footprint using an online carbon calculator, compare their results to average carbon footprints from around the world, and discover ways to decrease their carbon emissions.

Lesson 7: How Much Does Carbon Cost? Climate Change: Connections and Solutions, Grades 6-8. http://www.facingthefuture.org/Curriculum/ClimateChangeGrades68/tabid/453/Default.aspx. Students evaluate structural solutions to regulate carbon emissions and play a cap and trade game, finding ways to reduce emissions in the most cost-effective manner.

Lesson 8: Shopping Heats Up. Change: Connections and Solutions, Grades 6-8. http://www.facingthefuture.org/Curriculum/ClimateChangeGrades68/tabid/453/Default.aspx. In this simulation, students experience how resources are distributed and used by different people based on access to wealth, paying attention to various impacts of resource consumption.

Lesson 4: It All Adds Up. Climate Change: Connections and Solutions, Grades 9-12. http://www.facingthefuture.org/Curriculum/ClimateChangeGrades912/tabid/454/Default.aspx. Students calculate their carbon footprint using an online carbon calculator and compare their results to the carbon footprint of an average person in the United States.

Lesson 7: How Much Does Carbon Cost? Climate Change: Connections and Solutions, Grades 9-12. http://www.facingthefuture.org/Curriculum/ClimateChangeGrades912/tabid/454/Default.aspx. Students evaluate structural solutions to regulate carbon emissions and play a cap and trade game, finding ways to reduce emissions in the most cost-effective manner.

Lesson 8: Shopping Heats Up. Climate Change: Connections and Solutions, Grades 9-12. http://www.facingthefuture.org/Curriculum/ClimateChangeGrades912/tabid/454/Default.aspx. In this simulation, students experience how resources are distributed and used by different people based on access to wealth, paying attention to various impacts of resource consumption.

Reading 2: What Size Is Your Footprint? Climate Change: Connections and Solutions, Grades 6-12. http://www.facingthefuture.org/Curriculum/ClimateChangeGrades68/tabid/453/Default.aspx. Individual carbon footprints and personal solutions to climate change. Getting to the Core of Climate Change.

Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic. Grades 6-12. http://tea.armadaproject.org/activity/leppik/gettingtothecoreofclimatechange_main.html. This is a lab about evidence for past climate change as captured in ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica. Students investigate climate changes going back thousands of years by graphing and analyzing ice core data from both Greenland and Antarctica. They use information about natural and human-caused changes in the atmosphere to formulate predictions about Earth's climate.

Global Warming Webquest. Marian Koshland Science Museum. National Academy of Science. Grades 6-12. http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/teachers/wq-gw-gd001.jsp. In this Webquest activity, students assume roles of scientist, business leader, or policy maker. The students then collaborate as part of a climate action team and learn how society and the environment might be impacted by global warming. They explore the decision making process regarding issues of climate change, energy use, and available policy options. Student teams investigate how and why climate is changing and how humans may have contributed to these changes. Upon completion of their individual tasks, student teams present their findings and make recommendations that address the situation.

The Forecaster. Your Climate, Your Future by World Wildlife Federation. Grades 9-12. http://www.worldwildlife.org/climate/curriculum/WWFBinaryitem5969.pdf. Gather historical climate data for local regions and chart the trends over the past 100 years. Make climate predictions for the next month, semester, and year, and monitor these predictions over that period of time.

Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds by David Gershon, Empowerment Institute, Woodstock, NY. (2006). This interesting book lays out how to reduces one's annual carbon dioxide emissions. It includes 22 areas that can be altered to reduce emissions and clearly describes what actions should be taken. The book also includes checklists and schedules to monitor one's progress or to help motivate a team of people/households interested in the Low Carbon Diet.

The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era by Jeremy Leggett. Routledge, New York. (2001). This book describes how the excessive burning of oil, gas, and coal is raising Earth's temperature to unacceptable levels.

Climate Time Machine by NASA. http://climate.nasa.gov/ClimateTimeMachine/climateTimeMachine.cfm. This series of interactive visualizations show how some of the key indicators of climate change, such as temperature, sea ice extent and carbon dioxide concentrations, have changed in Earth’s recent history.

Vulcan Project. Purdue University. http://www.purdue.edu/eas/carbon/vulcan/index.php. The Vulcan Project has created maps and analysis of CO2 emissions for the continental U.S. from power plants, industrial sources, roads and highways, and residential sources. Each projection shows the location and magnitude of emissions. Students can compare the who, what, and where of CO2 emissions. Ask students to analyze the plots and decide which regions' sources are the greatest contributors to CO2 in the atmosphere. They can then make comparisons and formulate questions and hypotheses. This is a great use of real/current data in class that helps students answer the question "how do they know this stuff?" The Vulcan (Roman God of fire) site also includes a video showing diurnal cycles of carbon emissions and a Google Earth application.

Travel Matters Individual Calculator. http://www.travelmatters.org/calculator/individual/. Measure how much greenhouse gas you generate as a result of your daily transportation activity. Simply enter the monthly distances you traveled by mode of transportation - on foot, by bicycle, car, bus, train, plane, or boat - and the calculator will do your "greenhouse gas accounting" for you.

Causes: A Blanket Around the Earth. Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet by NASA. http://climate.nasa.gov/causes/. This site describes the greenhouse effect, and how human actions are causing the earth to warm. What is the big deal with carbon?

Climate Kids: NASA’s eyes on the Earth. http://climate.nasa.gov/kids/bigQuestions/dinosaurFossilFuel/. This section of NASA’s Climate Kids site provides a basic understanding of carbon and how it affects climate and all living things on Earth. Emissions continue to increase.

Vital Climate Change Graphics by UNEP/GRID-Arendal, Arendal, Norway. http://www.grida.no/publications/vg/climate2/page/2689.aspx. This section discusses the increase in greenhouse gas emissions since the Industrial Revolution. Climate Counts. http://www.climatecounts.org/. Climate Counts is a collaborative effort to bring consumers and companies together in the fight against global climate change. The site scores the world's largest companies on their climate impact to spur corporate climate responsibility and conscious consumption.

Alliance for Climate Education (ACE). http://www.acespace.org/. ACE is an award-winning national nonprofit dedicated to educating America's high school students about the science behind climate change and inspiring them to do something about it—while having fun along the way. They are based in Oakland, California, with educator teams in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Boston, Atlanta and Colorado. ACE delivers two core offerings: the free ACE Assembly on climate change and the Student Action Program. United States Global Change Research Program. http://www.globalchange.gov/. This web site is a well-organized resource for information on the many facets of climate change. Users can examine climate change impacts by region (including the Great Lakes), sector (such as ecosystems and society), and agency (how the United States federal agencies are related to climate change issues).

Earth’s Warming Climate: Are We Responsible? PBS Teachers professional development module. http://www.pbs.org/teachers/stem/professionaldevelopment/010/. Global climate change is one of the most profound challenges facing humanity today. This lesson provides the evidence that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has not been as high as it is currently for nearly half a million years and that this increase corresponds with data that human activity is responsible. Examine scientific data showing increases in both atmospheric CO2 and the Earth’s average temperature and analyze changes in atmospheric concentration of CO2 over time. References national standards.

The Climate Change Skeptic’s Argument: Natural Solar Cycles or Human Activity? PBS Teachers professional development module. http://www.pbs.org/teachers/stem/professionaldevelopment/025/. The sun has a well-known 11-year sunspot cycle that produces variation in energy output. Solar irradiance has been measured by satellites daily since the late 1970s, and this known solar cycle is incorporated into climate models. Evidence from historical sunspot observations, tree-ring measurements, and other proxy climate data sources show that solar output has not been constant over time. In this activity, we explore whether changes in incoming solar radiation can explain all or part of the warming trend we have seen in Earth’s planetary temperatures. References national standards.

Carbon “Kidprints.” PBS Teachers professional development module. http://www.pbs.org/teachers/stem/professionaldevelopment/030/. Global climate change is one of the most profound challenges facing humanity today. It is a problem that will be inherited by our students and one in which they will need to be meaningfully engaged as adults. While we can't reverse climate change, we can modify our personal behavior and contribute to community-based mitigation strategies to slow the rate of change and minimize impact on society and the ecosystems on which we rely. Because greenhouse gases are the most critical factor warming the atmosphere, any behavioral adaptation or mitigation strategy that decreases CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions that are warming our planet is a step in the right direction. This module explores the personal choices students make every day as resource consumers, and how those decisions contribute to the climate health of our planet. References national standards.

Earth’s Orbit and Climate Change. PBS Teachers professional development module. http://www.pbs.org/teachers/stem/professionaldevelopment/035/. Global climate change is one of the most profound environmental challenges facing humanity today. We have unequivocal evidence that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are contributing to a warming climate, but we also know that climate has changed significantly in the past, long before people were pumping CO2 into the atmosphere. What is the relative contribution of what we call "natural climate cycles" and human-caused greenhouse gases to the trajectories of change we see in contemporary climate records? References national standards.