Dreadful Drought
What problems are created when an environment has less water than normal? Learn more about what we can do to help navigate these environmental challenges.
Considering Climate Change
Understanding our warming world, what it means, and what you can do about it.
About the Activities
Climate change is a fact of modern life, and something we’ll have to deal with for decades to come. Learning about the effects of our warming planet is critical to understanding the world around us.
In this set of activities, you’ll learn more about how our earth is changing, why, and how you can make a career out of doing something about it.
Brought to you by University West Virginia Extension/4-H and USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Topic: Climate change, environmental science
Navigating Rising Sea Levels
One of the biggest issues caused by climate change is that it is causing the polar ice caps to melt. This experiment will show how melting ice is caused by climate change, and how it causes global sea levels to rise.
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Topic: Climate change, environmental science
Estimated Time: 30 minutes active, 1-2 hour waiting
Climate March
You have a voice and the power to organize action on climate change in your community. In this activity, you will learn about climate change activism events and how to organize your community and take action on the climate change crisis.
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Topic: Climate change, environmental science
Estimated Time: 30-60 minutes
Climate Change Career Pathways
When you think about what you want to do for a living, do you think about how you can create positive change? From careers in policy making, to clean energy automotive engineering and sustainable agriculture, this activity will introduce you to potential careers intended to combat climate change.
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Topic: Climate change, job readiness
Estimated Time: 30 minutes
Related Activities
If you enjoyed these activities, you can find more STEM activities on 4-H at Home.
Shop 4-H Curriculum and Products
Shop 4-H offers university-backed STEM curriculum, educational kits, products and supplies to expand your knowledge of space, rocketry and more.
Galactic Quest Kit
Grades: 3-9
The 2021 STEM Challenge takes youth on an out-of-this world adventure.
Family Kit: 1-4 youth | Educator Kit: 12 youth
Please allow 1-2 weeks for shipping.
$19.95 | $32.95
Mars Base Camp Rover
Grades: 3-8
Youth use engineering skills to build a vehicle that can explore the surface of Mars while participating in the Mars Base Camp Red Planet Odyssey unplugged activity.
$4.95
Explorers Of The Deep Stem Challenge Kit
Designed by Rutgers University, Explorers of the Deep, focuses on the mysteries and adventures of ocean exploration—with robots! Ocean exploration helps scientists prepare for and adapt to changing ocean conditions.
$24.99
Aerospace Pin
Once you've completed your Mars Base Camp or Aerospace mission, you've earned the right to display your accomplishment proudly with your 4-H Aerospace pin.
5/8" x 3/4", antiqued finish medal.
$2.49
Weather and Climate Science
Grades 3-5
The 4-H Weather and Climate Science curriculum is for youth who enjoy learning about science, especially weather and climate. Level 1 introduces basic weather words and ideas. Activities focus on understanding the signs of weather, and youth will also begin to learn the difference between weather and climate and how these ideas are related.
$9.95
There's No New Water!
This water conservation and water quality curriculum is grounded in a simple yet powerful concept that water is a finite natural resource whose quantity and quality must be responsibly preserved, protected, used, and reused.
$15.95
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