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CSEP provides formal and informal educators working with elementary through university age students with sustained professional development, collaborative tools, and support to build a climate-literate public that is actively engaged in climate stewardship. CSEP also provides support for educators to execute climate stewardship (mitigation or adaptation) projects with their audiences to increase understanding of climate science and practical actions to reduce the impact of climate change. The project is part of NOAA's portfolio of activities to strengthen ocean, climate, and atmospheric science education. 

This is my students all time favorite lab. Students don't understand the full economic or scientific impact of the mining industry until they have gone through this simulation. It's sort of like a geologic monopoly game. It is based in part on the ROA activity and similar activities in various earth science books.

Clue into Climate: A Digital Media-Based Curriculum Unit on Climate Change was created with input from San Francisco Bay Area teachers and advisors. The curriculum unit is comprised of four content strands, each of which includes 5-7 media resources related to the strand topic. Each strand also contains a strand guide and assessment, a background article and 4-5 lesson plans that provide information and activities to support the use of the media with students. Additionally, the curriculum unit provides a student workbook and a climate education resource guide.

wiki space. Not sure how 'active' this site still is. The blog questions are still valuable resoures to get students thinking in a FRQ mode.

Virtual tour of a wastewater treatment plant. Click the numbers to find out what happens at each step of the process.

Virtual tour of a wastewater treatment plant. Click the numbers to find out what happens at each step of the process.

Simulations and accompanying activities

Student teams work on environmental health problems based on real-life occurrences. This curriculum is for sale but they have several free activity samples that are worthwhile.

Actively quizzing yourself from the list of "140 ways to go APES"

Enormous amount of instructional material for teachers and students. Compiled by Sarah Bordenstein, Marine Biological Laboratory The Winogradsky Column is an excellent activity, specifically for grades 5 - 12, to demonstrate the growth of microorganisms. As a result of this activity, students will: learn about the metabolic diversity of prokaryotes, applying terms such as phototroph, chemotroph, autotroph, and heterotroph.

Our simulated labs exploring eutrophication and toxin biomagnification, fire regimes and succession, and investigating general ecological principles such as population growth, species interactions and community structure provide a great way to add active learning experiences to environmental science courses. Several labs were developed for non-majors and introductory classes, including our Darwinian Snails EvoBeaker® lab which provides a unique opportunity to teach natural selection using an invasive species example.

Get comprehensive energy use and activity data that can help your city plan and implement clean energy projects. A city's energy profile includes summary reports on: Greenhouse gas emissions Electricity generation Natural gas and other fuel source costs Renewable energy resource potential Transportation, buildings, and industry data Applicable policies and incentives Location

This interactive tool allows students and educators to build models that explain how the Earth system works and how it is affected by human activities and nonhuman phenomena.

This is a good activity to use before and after students go to a stream to assess the macro-invertebrates and their toleration levels. I find this resource beneficial when discussion water quality and ecology. If you are able to take students to a stream, this could be used as an introduction to what they can see. If a stream is not available, then this can be used to teach students what is in a stream and what they can tolerate.

This is one of a huge and diverse series of short, animated and slightly sarcastic science videos by the Kurzgesagt group. They are active and post a new one about once a week. The nuclear power series of videos is also excellent.

First introduced to me during my Environmental Education in Curriculum course, I've used a number of these lessons with great success. It's focus is on Place-Based learning activities. The lessons have been tested and developed in classrooms in urban areas, so they work! The books are in pdf and free! The goal is for students to "learn by doing."

This is a lab on designing an experiment to desalinate water.

Source of case studies.

This is from the national earth science teachers association, and has a bunch of resources, data, and ways to teach the earth sciences. (Including weather, climate, and geology)