Here is a selection of links that may be helpful to teachers and climate change curriculum developers:

There are many sites that will show up on Google. This list is a few of them that I thought were particularly informative for educators.

Caution: The current president and his administration deny that climate change is due to human activity, and that it is a serious problem. The material on .gov sites may be modified, by this administration, to reflect these views. Please notify me if you notice any changes to government sites (NASA or NOAA) that promote climate change denial viewpoints.

Link to ideas about a framework for teaching this subject.

• Education links (many posted by educators on earthscience@list.nsta.org. Join NSTA)
  • EPA Climate site especially for kids. Middle School and above. (CAUTION: this site is currently being edited at the direction of the Trump administration to reflect the new administration’s views, which tend toward climate science denial. Please contact me if you find a new place to access these resources. updated 5/6/2017).
  • A nice TED talk that introduces some basic ideas and proposes an economic solution.
  • We can start with some data
  • How past temperature is determined by scientists
  • NASA Global Climate Change. A very nice site.
  • Here’s a graph that shows how global sea ice has been decreasing recently compared to previous years. 
  • Climate Literacy: http://www.globalchange.gov/browse/educators
  • NSTA Climate Change Education resources, position statement and links to standards
  • Resources and information from NOAA. Teaching Resources from NOAA
  • CLEANET climate literacy index of education resources
    • CLEANET.ORG review process
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards in the United States
• Global Warming Denial
  • Global Warming Denial Website
  • Discussion of denial of accuracy of temperature record
  • RealClimate — scientists responding to questions about climate change. It’s pretty technical.
  • Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data; http://callingbullshit.org/syllabus.html#Big
  • Cherry picking to skew data interpretation
  • Spotting fake news
  • Project LookSharp and Media Literacy
    • Project LookSharp, on Global Warming
  • A Kindle Book about the global warming debate
  • UCSB grad students “Analyzing Fake News” site

last updated: April 15, 2017.