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Resource Title: Climate Curriculum | Healthy Climate Communities
Organization: Healthy Climate Communities
Description:

This page is a free climate-science curriculum hub containing complete classroom units for 5th grade, middle school, and high school. The materials include teacher guides, student workbooks or worksheets, printable materials, answer keys, standards information, images, and lesson presentations.

The four curriculum units are:

  • Earth Systems in My Ahupuaʻa — 5th grade
  • Global Climate Change: Local Impact and Action — middle school
  • Energy Solutions — high school chemistry
  • Carbon Cycle Off Balance — high school biology
Target Audience: 3rd - 5th grade, 6th - 12th grade, 6th - 8th grade, 6th grade and above, 7th - 12th grade, Educators, Facilitators, High School, College
Instructional Roles: Assessment, Main lesson, Ongoing activity, Planning
Environment: Classroom, Self-guided
Content Type: Directory, Publications, STEM investigation
Type Of Engagement: Create, Investigate, Observe, Reflect, Respond / Submit
Format: Images, PDF Guide, Presentation, Webpage
Activity:

Climate Science Curriculum Investigation

Teachers select an age-appropriate unit and guide students through a sequence of lessons, worksheets, presentations, experiments, data analysis, and design challenges. Depending on the unit, students may investigate Earth systems in their ahupuaʻa, graph climate data, model the greenhouse or albedo effect, examine fossil fuels and renewable energy, or design solutions for reducing carbon emissions.

Topics Covered:
  • Earth systems within an ahupuaʻa
  • Atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere
  • Carbon cycle
  • Climate change and local impacts
  • Greenhouse effect
  • Albedo effect
  • Climate-data graphing
  • Reducing a school’s carbon footprint
  • Combustion and fossil fuels
  • Energy transformation and storage
  • Renewable energy
  • Ocean responses to carbon dioxide and temperature changes
  • Effects of carbon-cycle changes on marine ecosystems
  • Climate solutions involving land use, electricity, transportation, and food

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