Videos for Classrooms

There are many great videos on climate change and human impacts on the environment. Here are links to just a few of them:

Geared towards younger students (up to 6th grade):

This video highlights the impact of climate change on wildlife and wetlands.
http://www.globalchange.gov/resources/educators/toolkit/video

For educators with a subscription to the site, BrainPOP has several videos on "Our Fragile Environment".
http://www.brainpop.com/science/ourfragileenvironment/

An animated video of how climate change occurs.

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/global_warming_version2.html

Geared towards older students (grades 7 and up):

This video shows how to see the temperature effects of climate change in Google Earth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zafRWhrpyCA

Extreme Ice: A 6-part (one hour total) Nova documentary on the rapid melting of glaciers

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/extremeice/program.html

Is global warming making hurricanes more intense?: A NOVA scienceNOW video

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3302/07.html

Activities and power points on climate change (k-12)

Welcome Educators and Schools! Here is a collective list of links to power points and interactive activities that help kids learn about climate change.

epa.gov has a list of many interactive, kid friendly games and quizzes concentrating on the environment.
http://www.epa.gov/kids/game.htm

Teachers guide on climate change that includes lesson plans and the top ten things you should know about global warming.
http://hdgc.epp.cmu.edu/teachersguide/teachersguide.htm

A great website all about teaching climate change at a k-12 level
http://www.climatechangeeducation.org/k-12/writing.html

A list of easy ways people and students can reduce their impact on climate change
http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_actionitems.asp

Here is a video slide show of an example power point on global warming (it goes fast so you might have to press pause to read all of the information on the slides)