Activities about climate change

We have 16 activities that you could use for Earth Day! April 22nd is Earth Day. Help your students become activists for our planet? We have 16 activities...

In mid-August and early September, the Monarch butterflies begin their annual migration south to more moderate climates to hibernate and overwinter. It is an incredibly long migration and...

Updated for 2023! Tuesday, February 21, 2023, will be the day before Ash Wednesday and the start of the season of Lent. Mardi Gras is a last hoorah...

The AQI is a measurement of how much particulate matter, dangerous ozone, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide there is in the world's atmosphere at any one...

Because of climate change, we've been having too many extreme weather events. There have been unusual droughts and heat in the West, an increased number of hurricanes, severe...

We recently watched the approach of Hurricane Barry and worried about the fate of Louisiana. After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, what would another powerful hurricane do to...

The crack in Antarctica's Larson C ice shelf has been growing for years (2017). Has the speed of the rift's growth stayed about the same? increased? decreased? Do...

What does this gizmo do? We've given students a diagram of what the interior of this mechanism contains and asked them to try to decide what its purpose...

Ferryland, Newfoundland. JODY MARTIN / REUTERS This giant iceberg drifted past Ferryland, Newfoundland in 2017. It's hard to tell how large it actually is, but it looks huge....

A new, fast-growing ice crack is forcing the Halley VI British research station in Antarctica (shown above) to be moved. Fear of a huge break-off from the ice...

I'm trying to be more savy about wasting our resources. I have really old fashioned toilets and I'm trying to figure out if I should invest in saving...

I'm going to help save the planet by adding solar panels to my roof! Should I tilt the panels on my roof to more accurately aim towards the...