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.

Girls on Rock

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

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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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We are Water

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.

Upcoming Events for K-12 Students

Apr

Sat

2025

6:00 pm MT

Bilingual Wildfire Family Game Night: Hourglass Lake Fire Challenge

Join us for a bilingual family game night on Friday, April 11th, from 6:00 to 7:30 PM in the Community Room at the Gunnison Public Library. Gunnison High School students will be leading the Hourglass Lake Fire Challenge, an interactive wildfire response game designed to help families learn how to react in a wildfire emergency.

May

Sat - Sun

10 - 11

2025

10:00 am MT

We are Water National Science Foundation STEM Day Community Celebration

Join us for the We are Water National Science Foundation STEM Day Community Celebration in Durango, Colorado on Saturday, May 10th, 2025!

Jul

Tue - Sat

08 - 19

2025

9:00 am MT

Girls on Rock Expedition July 8th-19th

Girls on Rock is a unique, immersive expedition for high school youth (ages 16-17) to join a 12-day science and rock climbing focused expedition in the Rocky Mountains. Students work closely with scientists, artists, and a professional mountain guides to develop research projects and learn to travel in the backcountry. Applications are closed for 2025.

Ongoing Events for K-12 Students

Ongoing 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

MOSAiC

Science Show & Share

We are Water

Earth and Environmental Science Videos

Parking Miss Piggy

What is Space Weather?

Arctic Soccer Game

Atmospheric Rivers: What's up with them?

Upcoming Events for K-12 Students

Bilingual Wildfire Family Game Night: Hourglass Lake Fire Challenge

We are Water National Science Foundation STEM Day Community Celebration

Girls on Rock Expedition July 8th-19th

Ongoing Events for K-12 Students

Water in the Western US

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