CEEE supports K-12 educators, college instructors and out-of-school, informal educators in their teaching by providing free, high-quality peer-reviewed and classroom-ready lesson plans, activities, and other learning materials. CEEE offers both virtual and in-person professional development opportunities, including options for professional development and graduate credit.
Check out our free, high-quality, scientist-reviewed lesson plans, earth science videos, professional learning, and personal narratives (stories recorded by students and community members about environmental topics).
Browse our collection of lesson plans, curriculum, activities, virtual tours, Data Puzzles and much more.
Explore a collection of instructional and educational videos about various environmental and earth science topics.
Explore our collection of professional learning resources, trainings and webinar recordings.
Dive into stories about water, drought, climate topics and learn from the perspectives of community members and students.
Explore CEEE programs and projects supporting educators and connecting learners with environmental science topics, including climate change, frozen landscapes, water, natural hazards, community resilience, climate solutions and more.
Education and outreach activities, resources, videos and planetarium shows around the international Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition to the Arctic.
A award-winning collection of ~1000 free, peer-reviewed climate and energy educational resources, teaching support for educators and a vibrant listserv for climate education professionals.
Data Lens activities equip teachers with tools to help their students engage with and understand complex scientific data. Informed by Visual Thinking Strategies, each exercise includes a timely global map that can stand alone or open a discussion into a relevant classroom unit of study.
Innovative lessons that combine classroom-friendly datasets with the research-backed instructional practices of Ambitious Science Teaching to support students in making sense of science phenomena and bringing authentic data into classrooms.
Action-oriented curriculum and role-play games that engage Colorado middle and high school students to investigate wildfire, flood, or drought risk in their hometown and inspire action to increase community resilience.
Join our free virtual workshops to improve your teaching to increase climate and data literacy in the classroom.
Visualize hundreds of global datasets. Learn more about the room-sized, awe-inspiring display system created by NOAA that uses computers and video projectors to display planetary data onto a six-foot diameter sphere, analogous to a giant animated globe. And there are also flatscreen and mobile options to bring the data visualizations into your classrooms.
This webinar series connects scientists from around the world to engage students and learners of all ages. Each webinar includes a 20-minute presentation followed by 20 minutes of Q&A. Explore our recommended learning materials or video recordings on the event page.
Science-backed curriculum that engages high school students to take action in making their communities more resilient. These lessons are developed to teach climate topics and prepare students for the Seal of Climate Literacy.
Place-based education program connecting local communities in the desert Southwest with water topics through stories, programming, hands-on activities, and a traveling exhibit in the local library.
Emergency managers and fire departments often use scenarios, or “table-top” exercises to plan out evacuation and emergency response plans. While students are used to participating in fire drills, they may never understand the systems in place to protect and respond to fires.
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Bring a classroom or assessment challenge, and we’ll co-design climate literacy solutions together!
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In this FREE Data Puzzles workshop, curriculum developer Jon Griffith and hydrologist Seth Arens will engage participants with the Zoom In data sensemaking strategy as a way to support students explore and explain the cause of the ongoing megadrought in the CO River Basin.
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Join us for a free HEART Force workshop designed to help you bring real-world relevance into your classroom. Learn how to engage students through:
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During this hour teachers will participate as students in a full (20 min) Data Lens activity - which highlights a captivating observation technique - and learn how to use other excellent visual and data literacy resources.
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The ADVANCEing FieldSafety course provides field research team leaders and field team participants with the skills and tools to build a welcoming and inclusive field culture. This course will help you and your team develop norms and codes of conduct, and review or clarify leadership and field team organization. This is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Coursera.
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A self-paced, free, online course “Frozen in the Ice: Exploring the Arctic” is about the extraordinary MOSAiC Arctic research mission that has frozen an icebreaker into the Arctic Ocean for 13 months.
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In this self-paced, free, online course, you will learn about water and climate in the Western United States and join a community of thousands of learners to gain insight into the major legal, political, and cultural issues that make water so complex in the region.
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In this self-paced, free, online course, you will learn about water and climate in the Western United States and join a community of thousands of learners to gain insight into the major legal, political, and cultural issues that make water so complex in the region.
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This short training takes you on a journey to explore the free teaching resources offered on the CLEAN (Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network) climate education portal.
