Programs
Antarctica: Connecting Climate Change, Melting Ice Shelves, and Pooping Penguins
This is a five-part curriculum about Antarctic environmental processes and building connections between ice shelves, surface melt, climate change - and penguins!
Braiding your River: CIRES Career Development Series
The CIRES Career Development Series supports personal learning and provides inclusive opportunities for CIRES researchers to connect and grow together by offering a monthly 1 hour workshop focused on developing diverse professional skills.
CIRES/NOAA Science@Home
This webinar series features 10-15 minute presentations followed by 10-15 minutes of Q&A and are all paired with recommended learning materials.
CIRES/NOAA Serie La Ciencia-en-Casa
¿Eres un maestro/a buscando oportunidades de aprendizaje a distancia para tus alumnos/as?
Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN)
A collection of nearly 700 free peer-reviewed climate and energy educational resources.
Data Puzzles
Data Puzzles combine classroom-friendly scientific datasets with the research-backed pedagogical practices of Ambitious Science Teaching to give your students the ultimate inquiry-based learning experience.
Girls on Rock
Girls on Rock is a unique, FREE wilderness science education programs for high school girls.
HEART Force
Engage youth and teachers to raise awareness of natural hazards and inspire action for resilience in Colorado communities.
MOSAiC
Education and outreach efforts around the international Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition to the Arctic, beginning in September 2019.
QGreenland
QGreenland is a free and open-source GIS mapping tool to support interdisciplinary Greenland-focused research, teaching, decision making, and collaboration.
Research Experience for Community College Students
A summer research internship program for Colorado community college students.
The Polar Bear Project
Are polar bears an effective emotional hook for increasing student learning about climate science? Educational resources and research results.
Water in the Western US
University of Colorado Boulder just launched a free, online course exploring water and climate in the western United States.
We are Water
We are Water partners with libraries in the Four Corners Region to bring programs and a traveling exhibit about the importance of water to rural, Latinx, and Indigenous communities in the Southwest.
Recent Programs
Arctic Climate Connections
The Broader Impacts portion of the NSF proposal studying analysis of existing data from Arctic terrestrial stations with multi-year measurements of the surface energy budget, clouds, soil temperature profiles, and basic meteorological measurements.
Climate and Resiliency Education
Building capacity and resources in climate and resiliency education with secondary science educators.
Climate Science Academy
The Climate Science Academy is an online, self-guided tutorial of recorded presentations and webinars presented by climate science experts to support learning about and understanding the Earth's climate system and climate change.
DISCOVER-AQ: Know Your Air Quality
Accurate air pollution data can help us develop solutions to our region’s persistent air pollution problems.
Engaged Scientist Series
Free public lectures and workshops for graduate students & postdocs on engaging with communities.
GeoMag
Geomagnetism in the MESA Classroom is a four-part after-school module sponsored by NASA that allows students to explore geomagnetism.
GLOBE Fire Fuel Protocol
A NASA-funded project to review, revise, and pilot the citizen science GLOBE Fire Fuel Protocol.
Improv and Environmental Science Workshops
Improvisational theater workshops that engage students and teachers in applying improv to science communication and collaboration.
Inspiring Climate Education Excellence (ICEE)
The Inspiring Climate Education Excellence (ICEE) project was a professional development program designed to help educators teach climate science within a variety of pedagogical contexts.
Lens on Climate Change (LOCC)
Documenting the effects of climatic and environmental changes on students' lives and in their communities through short films.
Lentes en Cambio Climático (LECC)
Los estudiantes de secundaria y preparatoria exploran temas locales sobre el cambio climático mediante la producción de cortometrajes.
Project EXTREMES
Project EXTREMES partnered graduate students in the sciences with K-12 teachers to enhance the communication of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines through a focus on the ecology of extreme environments.
Solar Dynamics Observatory - EVE
The SDO-EVE project developed NGSS-aligned curriculum for student-led investigations of the sun, solar activity, and space weather.
The GLOBE Program
The GLOBE Program is a network of worldwide students, teachers, scientists, and partners who work together. CIRES E&O is a GLOBE partner.
Tribes Eye
Engaging Navajo tribal college students to learn about climate and the local environment through photography.