CLEAN: The Network for Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program’s “Essential Principles of Climate Science” guiding document outlines climate literacy guidelines that CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Pathway builds upon.
It offers a range of educational resources that help students, teachers, and citizens become climate literate and knowledgeable about climate issues. The collection aims to integrate effective use of the materials across all educational levels, especially middle school through undergraduate levels
(grades 6-16), and supports and reaches out to these emerging communities of users. Topics related to climate and energy include the climate system, factors that contribute to climate change, methods for monitoring and modeling climate change, its effects, how people respond to it, and energy use. The scientific validity and educational applicability of the resources are evaluated.
Assessing
Can we cut CO2 emissions by 20% below 1990 levels and prevent catastrophic climate change, as this interactive asks? By manipulating modifications to different energy sources and uses
(supply and demand), users of this interactive can reduce carbon dioxide emissions in Great Britain by 80% by 2050.
Sea Surface Temperatures Over 22 Years
In this video, scientists John Holdren and environmental writer Elizabeth Kolbert discuss the effects of climate change on people, including the people who live in Shishmaref, Alaska.
Less Topic: Computational ScienceTechnical and Career EducationEcologyScience of the EnvironmentStudies of the EnvironmentBiologyOceanographyPhysical ScienceType of Material: Diagram or IllustrationPerusingProvider: Energy Awareness and Climate Literacy Network
(CLEAN)CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network is the provider set.Writer:
as the American Association of Science and Engineering (AAAS)
Vanuatu’s Coral Reefs: Adaptation
Vanuatu is an island nation in the South Pacific. Its economy and environment are largely dependent on its coral reefs. These days, they have to contend with a predator that is silent but capable of quickly destroying a whole reef. Students watch this film to understand how a starfish is destroying Vanuatu’s coral reefs and how the inhabitants are adjusting.
Less Topic: Computational SciencebiologicalTechnical and Career EducationEcologyFinanceScience of the EnvironmentStudies of the EnvironmentBiologyPhysical ScienceSocial ScienceType of Material: Diagram or IllustrationPerusingProvider: Energy Awareness and Climate Literacy Network
(CLEAN)CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network is the provider set. Learning Media Public Broadcasting Service is the author.
ADAPTATION: Bangladesh’s Floating Gardens
The video opens on Bangladesh’s verdant deltas. The video’s host discovers how localities are adjusting to dangerous sea level rise and shifting monsoons. A couple of the nation’s creative approaches are floating gardens and floating schools.
Topic: Utilized ScienceScience of the AtmosphereTechnical and Career EducationScience of the EnvironmentStudies of the EnvironmentOceanographyPhysical ScienceType of Material: Diagram or IllustrationPerusingProvider: Energy Awareness and Climate Literacy Network
(CLEAN)CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network is the provider set.LearningMedia is the author.The Public Broadcasting Service
ADAPTATION: Ladakh’s Ice Stupas
Watch this video to see how people in the dry highlands of Ladakh depend on glacial water to hydrate crops and streams in the spring and summer. Future developments in these locations are being drastically altered by global warming. Discover how a Ladakhi engineer and teacher created impressive ice pyramids that collect and filter glacial runoff, providing water for usage all summer long and during the busiest months for agriculture.
Subject: Applied Science in AgricultureTechnical and Career EducationScience of the EnvironmentStudies of the EnvironmentPhysical ScienceType of Material: Diagram or IllustrationPerusingProvider: Energy Awareness and Climate Literacy Network
(CLEAN)CLEAN:
Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network is the provider set.
Writer:
Alicia CarrereThe Public Broadcasting Service
ADAPTATION: Kentucky’s Invasive Carp
An entrepreneur is shown in this movie coming up with innovative solutions to the problem of invasive Asian carp in the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. The carp spread to other areas after it was brought in to help with an algae problem.
This film demonstrates how the local community has dealt with the problem, including how they have learned new ways to use carp from different cultures to lessen its effects.
Topic: Utilized SciencebiologicalTechnical and Career EducationEcologyFinanceScience of the EnvironmentStudies of the EnvironmentBiologyPhysical ScienceSocial ScienceType of Material: Diagram or IllustrationPerusingProvider: Energy Awareness and Climate Literacy Network
(CLEAN)CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network is the provider set.LearningMedia is the author. The Public Broadcasting Service
AK-03 Columbia Glacier “Cliff” in Alaska: AK-03 (narrated)
This time-lapse film from the Extreme Ice Survey features Dr. Tad Pfeffer and photographer Jim Balog talking about the dynamics of the Columbia Glacier’s recent retreat. Important point: a change in glacial dynamics brought on by climate change is also causing a reduction in glacier size, in addition to glacial melting.
Topic: Utilized ScienceTechnical and Career EducationScience of the EnvironmentStudies of the EnvironmentGeosciencePolitics, Law, and HistoryPhysical ScienceProvider: Energy Awareness and Climate Literacy Network
(CLEAN)CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network is the provider set.
Extra Ice Survey is the author.James BalogTad Pfeffer
Unpredictable Occurrences Over the Last 70 Million Years: Proof from Scientific Ocean Drilling
This six-part exercise teaches students about the rapid changes in climate that occurred at the Eocene/Oligocene border (33.9 million years ago), the Paleocene/Eocene boundary (55.8 million years ago), and the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary
(65.5 million years ago).Computational ScienceThe study of archaeology Technical and Career EducationScience of the EnvironmentStudies of the EnvironmentGeographical PhysicalityPhysical ScienceSocial ScienceType of Material:
Activity/LabWhole CourseProvider: Energy Awareness and Climate Literacy Network.
(CLEAN)CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network is the provider set.
Consortium for Ocean Leadership is the author. Debbie Thomas Leckie Mark
absorption of incoming and outgoing radiation by atmospheric gasses
Students investigate the nature of the greenhouse effect in this activity by using the absorption spectra of greenhouse gases.
Utilized ScienceScience of the AtmosphereTechnical and Career EducationScience of the EnvironmentStudies of the Environment.
Physical Science:
PhysicsType of Material: Activity/LabProvider: Energy Awareness and Climate Literacy Network (CLEAN)CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network is the provider set.
Writer: CLEAN Community CollectionSara Harris at British Columbia University
Oceans with Acid
In this video, researcher Gretchen Hofmann investigates how sea urchin larvae are affected by ocean acidification.
Utilized SciencebiologicalTechnical and Career EducationEcologyScience of the EnvironmentStudies of the EnvironmentBiologyPhysical ScienceProvider: Energy Awareness and Climate Literacy Network (CLEAN)CLEAN:
Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network is the provider set.
American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is the author.