Here is a broad range of simple (ish) climate models suitable for relatively advanced students:
- Interactive carbon cycle by ScienceLearn
- Excel climate model and sample work sheet.
- Interactive simulations from PhET, University of Colarado
- A simple dice based model
- Manchester University’s Build Your Own Earth
- Reading University’s scratch based energy balance model.
- The MAGICC climate carbon cycle model
- Walker Institute Simple Climate Model
- Other simple climate models can be found on the climateprediction.net website.
- Tutorial on Climate Models for teachers.
- Modelling climate change booklet full of experiments for school labs and computers
- The EN-ROADS climate solutions simulator published by climateinteractive.org
- The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s Mackay Carbon Calculator or My 2050.
- Financial Times net zero game
- Lewis Fry Richardson’s Forecast Factory – for Real, A Charlton-Perez and H Dacre, February 2011.
These resources explore the climate of five different scale periods of the past 2.6 million years. Within each, some of the basic processes affecting the climate are investigated. Please feel free to adapt the resources to the level and ability of the students you teach.