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Sea level rise traceable to human-caused global warming is already increasing coastal floods. Climate Central released a new module within Surging Seas Risk Finder, our interactive data toolkit for the coastal U.S. (to be expanded internationally in 2017).

Google Arts & Culture is partnering with the world most famous museums to bring us a virtual natural history museum.

Join Bat Conservation International and the Bat Squad! for a free online webcast series October 25-28th!

Learn all about bats with the Bat Squad! – eight amazing kids from across the USA excited to share their knowledge about bats and experiences with conservation!

Expii functions as an interactive series of math and science textbooks. Users may either search for a specific topic, or they may use the Topic Map. Topics are accompanied by short explanations of concepts and often include practice problems. Check out Statistical approaches and data analysis under Algebra. Expii is a crowdsourced learning site; please contribute.

Discover the effects of climate change on your health.

CaribNode is an online data-mapping platform for Eastern Caribbean islands that brings together data from national and regional entities.

MDBA Education offers lesson plans about water, rivers, and groundwater for every age group and grades. The online resource includes videos and free interactive games.

The Ocean of Data Institute helps students and young professionals navigate and interpret the world of data.

The World Bank Group has recently published Part One of a Tourism Concessioning Toolkit in Protected Areas. It offers core principles to be taken into consideration when designing concession programs, presenting 14 key characteristics displayed in most successful tourism concession programs. It can be read online or downloaded for free.

The Carbon: Transformations in Matter and Energy (Carbon TIME) teaching units are designed for middle and high school science classes. They focus on processes that transform matter and energy in organisms, ecosystems, and global systems. Four units, Systems and Scale, Plants, Animals, and Decomposers, examine matter and energy in flames and individual organisms.

The Beachapedia website from Surfrider Foundation is similar to Wikipedia, but with articles that focus on beach and ocean issues. Topics include Beach Preservation and Access, Clean Water, Climate Change Adaptation, and more. Check out the Coastal Factoids and contribute links to educational materials on specific subjects. The information is also available in Spanish.

Check out the National Science Foundation's 2016 Video Showcase, Advancing STEM Learning For All. There are over 150 videos that showcase innovative work to improve science, math, engineering, and computer science education. Be sure to check 2015's Teaching and Learning Showcase.

Explore the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation's Coral Reef Ecology Curriculum and learn about the underwater world of coral reefs. This free comprehensive curriculum contains background information, lesson plans, interactive exercises, graphics, photos, videos, worksheets, and quizzes. Try it now to explore custom units on a wide range of topics including classification, anatomy, feeding, and reproduction. You can even create an account to keep track of your scores on quizzes (or the progress of your students), earn badges, and learn at your own pace. Materials can be used sequentially or individually.

NASA's Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet website features a diverse set of resources related to the measurement, analysis, and dangers of global climate change. Interactive features include the Climate Time Machine, which allows users to go backward and forward through four different climate indicators including Sea Ice, Sea Level, Carbon Dioxide, and Global Temperature. Other resources include the water cycle, a virtual tour, and more.

Podcast from Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

This Cartoon Crash Course offers a visual glossary of ocean terminology.

Healing Earth is a free, online environmental science textbook for upper level secondary school students, beginning college students, and adult learners. It is created by the Institute of Environmental Sustainability and Department of Theology, Loyola University Chicago, and has the ability to incorporate additional user-generated content.

The Caterpillar Lab uses native New England caterpillars to help people see the natural value of their backyards, neighborhoods, and green spaces. Loaded with photographs, videos, informational documents, a blog, and other resources, The Caterpillar Lab's website is a space for anyone to learn about caterpillars' lives. Find it at www.thecaterpillarlab.org.

Our Climate Our Future, from the Alliance for Climate Education, is a multimedia resource to educate young people about the science of climate change and empower them to take action.

Boulder, CO based Jeff and Paige released their 5th album, Mighty Wolf on November, 20, 2015. After receiving their Master of Science degrees, Jeff Kagan and Paige Doughty decided to make the stage their science classroom and music-loving families their students. They've released four albums, which have been honored with prestigious Parents' Choice and Creative Child Magazine Awards, have won the Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education Award for Excellence in Programming, and have played well over 600 eco-friendly shows since hitting the boards with their first performance in 2007. The duo's outreach extends to schools, libraries, community centers, outdoor locales, and beyond, including venues such as the Glenn Miller Ballroom on the University of Colorado Boulder campus, where a recent concert was preceded by seriously cool science activities hosted by CU Science Discovery.

For grades 4-6: NASA's Climate Kids site helps students understand climate change through illustrations, games, and animations.

Unlimited: Renewable Energy in the 21st Century is a documentary film aimed at providing a general introduction about the virtues and benefits of moving away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy.

Going to Green deals with the restoration of America's urban landscape through the creation of sustainable neighborhood ecosystems. Each chapter is devoted to a specific subject, accompanied by a lesson with service extension activities

A Collection of Activities and Resources for Teaching Astronomy (on a DVD-ROM)