There are many excellent resources for teachers to develop a climate change curriculum or incorporate the topic into existing curriculum. We have also included many energy-related resources as energy conservation and efficiency reduces greenhouse gas emissions as well as emissions that cause acid rain, regional haze, and ground-level ozone.

EPA’s Climate Change, Wildlife, and Wildlands

This kit provides thought-provoking information about the impacts of global warming on our forests, streams, mountains, and coastal areas. It includes:

• A short video, "Climate Change, Wildlife, and Wildlands",
• A CD-ROM with four case studies that discuss the potential impacts of climate change on selected national parks and wildlife refuges and areas surrounding them,
• A hand-held global warming wheel card that can be used to calculate household greenhouse gas emissions, and
• A set of 12 trail cards that highlight the potential effects of climate change on individual wildlife species and ecosystems.

Contact: Norman L. Willard, Esq. Region I EPA
617-918-1812
Willard.Norman@epamail.epa.gov

EPA’s Global Warming Kids Site

EPA has launched a series of educational climate animations for grades 5-9. The animations, entitled "Global Warming and Earth Processes," feature illustrated moving scenes of:

• How global warming occurs,
• The carbon cycle and global warming, and
• The water cycle and global warming.

The animations were designed to break down complex processes into a series of easy-to-understand components accessible to the intermediate grades.

EPA’s Visitor Center for Educators includes the materials highlighted about as well as additional materials

For other EPA outreach materials on global warming and climate change
See http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/index.html

Ask Dr. Global Change

"Dr. Global Change" is a reference service that assists researchers, students, educators, decision makers and the general public in finding information and data relevant to global environmental change. Answers are prepared by GCRIO staff along with U.S. Government agencies

Resource Guide for K-12 Teachers from the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
50 Miles Street, Suite 3
Greenfield, MA 01301-3212
413-774-6051

The Climate Change Backpack

Available through the New England Science Centers Collaborative
Contact May Lou Kramber 603-444-0949.
On Loan: Contact Joanne Morin, NHDES, 603-271-5552

The Climate Change Backpack is a portable collection of teaching materials developed to incorporate the topic of climate change into traditional natural history interpretation. The Backpack materials can used for indoor presentations but are of more value when used outdoors in the presence of trees, plants, clouds, wetlands, and forest ecosystems. The Backpack comes with an extensive "Presenters Guide".

It covers the following topics and themes:

Carbon in Plants
Sugar maples
Photosynthesis
Tree stresses
Carbon cycles
Oceans and the Greenhouse Effect
Oceans as part of the carbon cycle
CO2 sinks
Changes in ocean, sea level, weather
Greenhouse effect
CO2 and Global Warming
Historic and prehistoric levels of CO2
Scientific investigation of past climate change
Correlation between CO2 and temperature
Rates of climate change
Effects on Tourism
Secondary economic effects
Global warming not just about heat
Personal contributions to climate change
Successes
Things individuals can do to reduce the CO2 imbalance
Successful efforts to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere
Carbon inventories and embodied carbon