Climate Resources
Explore interactive KCVS learning tools to visualize Earth’s climate history, learn about the chemistry of climate change in the atmosphere and oceans, work toward, understand, and discover solutions to climate change, and then tie it all together using systems thinking!
Don't know where to start? Curious about learning more? Check out the guiding activities that work through key KCVS learning resources and ask critical, thought-provoking questions found in the paper "Climate Action Can 'Flip the Switch': Resourcing Climate Empowerment in Chemistry Education."
Understanding Climate Change
A collection of resources that provide a comprehensive overview of climate change, the ways human activity is affecting the planet, and potential solutions to this pressing issue.
Climate Solutions and Sustainability
Explore these climate solutions and sustainability tools used to reorient chemistry practices by highlighting the steps needed to understand and tackle climate change as a complex system.
Chemistry of the Atmosphere
Explore key interactions between greenhouse gases and electromagnetic radiation in the atmosphere to see how they contribute to climate change.
Systems Thinking
Explore resources that apply systems thinking to communicate concepts related to climate change and resources designed to promote systems thinking itself.
Earth's Climate History
Explore resources that provide climate data to visualize Earth’s climate history.
Earth Systems and Ocean Processes
Earth systems comprise the biological, physical, and chemical components of the planet, which includes the dynamics of the ocean. Use these tools to explore how human activity has impacted the oceans.