1. Teaching Climate Change: Lessons from the Past 2006 Workshop Montana State University, Bozeman Mt Teaching with Real Data: Paleoclimatology Resources for Teachers (and other NOAA resources) Connie Woodhouse National Climate Data Center, Boulder CO J. Wellington L. Thompson D. Hodell P. Brown

2. OVERVIEW NOAA Education Policy and Resources Paleoclimatology Resources from the National Climatic Data Center, Paleoclimatology Branch Other Climate Change Resources from the National Climatic Data Center Photo from NASA

3. From the NOAA Education Policy At NOAA, education means a process of engaging external audiences to build knowledge on topics relevant to the world’s atmosphere, climate, oceans, and coastal ecosystems in order to achieve greater environmental literacy, personal safety, and an improved economy. NOAA and Education

4. http://www.education.noaa.gov/

5. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html National Climatic Data Center, Paleoclimatology Branch home page Our web site includes several source of education materials

6. EDUCATIONAL SLIDE SETS

7. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ctl/index.html CLIMATE TIME LINE Web site

8. PALEO PERSPECTIVES EDUCATIONAL WEB PAGES

9. Currently under revision GLOBAL WARMING

10. ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE

11. NORTH AMERICAN DROUGHT

12. DATASETS AND TOOLS FOR DISPLAY AND ANALYSIS

13. The each of the main paleoclimatic proxy types have a search engine and graphical interface to search for and download data

14. CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS Global, hemispheric, local from a variety of proxy data air temperature precipitation drought streamflow atmospheric circulation (e.g., ENSO) sea surface temperatures others SOME OF THESE HAVE VISUALIZATION TOOLS

15. Gridded Network of Summer Drought Reconstructions tools for spatial and temporal display From Cook et al. 2004

16. Gridded Network of Summer Temperature Reconstructions for Western North America: a tool for visualization From Briffa et al. 1992

17. Colorado Streamflow Reconstructed from Tree Rings for Water Resource Managers, soon to be expanded to other areas of the western US

18. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/climateextremes.html NCDC CLIMATE CHANGE RESOURCES Includes links to the Climate Monitoring page with State of the Climate Reports, references on Climate Trends and Extreme Events, Indices of Climatic Change for the US, Global Warming FAQ, and links to various climate databases.

19. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html NCDC’s GLOBAL WARMING FAQ