We compiled some of our favorite online climate science, art, and storytelling activities so you can help the Earth from home. Check out page 9 for ocean activities geared for 6th-8th grade levels.

Learn about the importance of marine ecosystems for the environment and understand how these ecosystems are being affected by climate change and ocean warming.

Learn about the importance of marine ecosystems for the environment and understand how these ecosystems are being affected by climate change and ocean acidification.

Learn about the Rocky Intertidal Ecosystem and how Cabrillo National Monument works to preserve and protect it!

This video demonstrates how melting land ice raises sea level, but melting sea ice does not. See how warming in far-away places like Antarctica matters to people on coasts world-wide. Teachers can repeat this demonstration with inexpensive materials.

Learn about how climate change is impacting our oceans.

Create a carbon dioxide–rich atmosphere in a cup and watch how it changes the water beneath it. This model of ocean-atmosphere interaction shows how carbon dioxide gas diffuses into water, causing the water to become more acidic.

A student and teacher from Richland Community College demonstrate this experiment which uses jars and lamps to show the effect of heat from the sun.

Plastic flows from our neighborhoods to the ocean, but it can be tough to see and really hard to quantify! In this lesson, students will be asked to think about how plastic from their house might get to the ocean; what harm it might cause; and how we can count “microplastics” in nature.

The Scripps Community Outreach for Public Education (SCOPE) program presents a virtual tour of the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

The Scripps Community Outreach for Public Education (SCOPE) Program presents a virtual tour of the Hubbs Hall Experimental Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.