Teaching Resources

This page is designed to share Educational Climate Change resources specific to New Mexico. If you have lesson plans, links, or any other materials you would like us to list here please email them to our Public Information & Outreach Representative, Natalie Willoughby, at nwilloughby@epscor.unm.edu.

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General Resources

Resources for all ages

Name of Resource

Appropriate Grade

"Burn Out", Nature Magazine, Sept. 20, 2012

All ages

CLEAN: Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network

All ages

Teaching Materials

K-12 Teaching Materials

Name of Resource

Appropriate Grade

What's For Lunch? (Elieen Everett, NMMNHS)

Middle School & High School, Grades 7-12

Climate Change: Connections & Solutions

Middle School, Grades 6-8

Every Drop Counts: Water Lesson

Middle School & High School, Grades 5-12

How Big Is A Billion?

Middle School, Grades 5-8

Higher Education Teaching Materials

Name of Resource

Appropriate Grade

NCSE-NASA Climate Change Education Modules

Undergraduate Level

Western Consortium Cyberlearning:
NM Tech Cyberlearning
Climate Change Education at UNLV
University of Idaho CyberLearning Project

Undergraduate & Graduate Level

Cyberinfrasturcture & Connectivity (C2) Programs Developed for UCIE

Undergraduate Level, targeting non-research insitutions

Teaching Materials for Multiple Age Groups

Name of Resource

Appropriate Grade

Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) Reviewed Educational Resources

Middle School, High School, College (Upper & Lower)

NSF Learning 360 Facebook page

Various grades (depending on the resources posted)

Lesson Plans

K-12 Lesson Plans

Name of Resource

Appropriate Grade

Physical Science (zip file)

High School, Grades 9-12

Project GUTS Computational Modeling of Complex Systems:
Shared Water Resources Page

 Middle School, Grades 6-8;
High School, Grades 9-10

Water Chemistry (zip file)

  1. Students will evaluate the water quality of the river based on
    the following parameters: pH, dissolved oxygen, conductivity,
    temperature and total dissolved solids.
  2. Understand the meaning of measurement data used for water
    chemical analysis.
  3. Relate results to different variables (residences nearby, stray
    animals, vegetation, effluents, etc.) surrounding the
    Springer lake/river.

High School, Grade 9

Life Science (zip file)

  1. These lessons are part of a unit on: Biodiversity, Subtopic:
    Population Density
  2. The learning goals of the unit address the NM Content Standard(s), Benchmark(s), and Performance Standards listed:
    1. Strand II: Content of Science
    2. Standard II: Understand the properties, structures, and processes of living things and the interdependence of
      living things and their environments.
    3. Benchmark II: Explain the diverse structures and functions
      of living things and the complex relationships between living things and their environments.
    4. Performance Standards: (1) Understand how diverse species fill all niches in an ecosystem; (2) Know how to classify organisms: domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family genus, and species.

Middle School, Grade 7