For K-12 Students

CEEE offers K–12 students engaging opportunities to explore environmental science through interactive learning, multimedia tools, hands-on programming, and Earth science video resources.

Multimedia and Interactive Learning

Explore CEEE resources that bring environmental science to life through dynamic learning approaches. Discover how storytelling, creative video-making, and engaging presentations can help you share what you've learned in powerful and memorable ways—all while learning through educational games and interactive experiences.

Storytelling

Explore CEEE resources that use storytelling to connect communities and share impactful narratives about environmental topics.

Creating Presentations

Learn how to create engaging presentations with CEEE workshops and resources, offering scientists tools for storytelling, structuring talks, and connecting with broad audiences.

Learning With Games

Engage in game-based learning with CEEE programs and activities, offering an interactive approach to environmental science.

Making Videos

Learn how to make your own videos with CEEE curriculum, hands-on workshops, and video resources offering students immersive experiences in climate science through filmmaking.

Featured Programs for K-12 students

Explore CEEE programs and projects supporting K-12 students and connecting learners with environmental science topics, including climate change, frozen landscapes, water, natural hazards, community resilience, climate solutions and more.

Nine Girls on Rock backpacking participants wearing blue helmets jumping up while facing a mountain valley from the peak

Girls* on Rock (GOR)

Girls* on Rock is an exciting, FREE wilderness science education program for high school students.

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Polarstern research vessel using bright navigation lights to see ahead in the ocean during night

Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC)

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.

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Science Show & Share

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.

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Looking down into the canyon, a blue river with green algae runs through an canyon with varying shades of orange rock, circling around a big orange rock in the middle with the blue sky in the background

We are Water (WaW)

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.

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Earth and Environmental Science Videos

Parking Miss Piggy

In this 360-degree video, scientists park a large weather balloon nicknamed "Miss Piggy" in a tent during the 2019-2020 MOSAiC Arctic research expedition. Click and drag for a full 360-degree view!

Person in red suit in the Arctic pulling down a large orange balloon

What is Space Weather?

CIRES scientist Dr. Alessandra Pacini will guide us through what space weather is, how she started studying it, the science behind it and how it affects us here on earth.

Arctic Soccer Game

Watch one of the most extreme soccer games you'll ever see being played on sea ice in the Arctic during the 2019-2020 MOSAiC research expedition. Click and drag for a full 360-degree view!

Atmospheric Rivers: What's up with them?

What are Atmospheric Rivers? Learn all about what they are, how we measure them, and the impact this environmental phenomenon has had on the U.S. in 2023.

Asynchronous Events for K-12 Students

Asynchronous Event

Water in the Western US

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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For K-12 Students

For K-12 Students

Multimedia and Interactive Learning

Storytelling

Creating Presentations

Learning With Games

Making Videos

Featured Programs for K-12 students

Girls* on Rock (GOR)

Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC)

Science Show & Share

We are Water (WaW)

Earth and Environmental Science Videos

Parking Miss Piggy

What is Space Weather?

Arctic Soccer Game

Atmospheric Rivers: What's up with them?

Asynchronous Events for K-12 Students

Water in the Western US

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