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- In this role-playing policy game, you are the leader of the European Union. Select policies to reduce carbon emissions while retaining enough popularity to remain in office.
- Creators: British Broadcasting Corporation
- Cost: free
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- Climate science games and simulations from Bill Nye the Science Guy and Chabot Space & Science Center.
- Creators: Bill Nye and Chabot Space & Science Center
- Cost: free
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- BrainPop hosts many educational animations and other resources. The GameUp section of BrainPop offers free games, many covering science topics, including: Hot Air Balloon, Wind Simulator, Carbon Cycle, Nitrogen Cycle, Water Cycle, Magnet Hunt, and many more.
- Creators: games on BrainPop come from various sources, including Field Day Lab, Spongelab Interactive, PhET, and others
- Cost: the GameUp section is free; access to other resources on BrainPop requires a paid subscription
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- A small collection (9 items as of November 2014) of role-playing, board, card, and computer games about climate change and energy use topics.
- Creators: various; collection is part of the CAMEL (Climate Adaptation Mitigation E-Learning) climate change education web site
- Cost: free
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- Choose your priorities and select mitigation strategies to meet your goals with this simple climate change mitigation simulator.
- Creators: Koshland Science Museum
- Cost: free
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- Disaster Dynamics: Hurricane Landfall is a multiplayer, role-playing strategy game that teaches about interactions between natural hazards and human decisions in a Gulf Coast barrier island community.
- Creators: National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
- Cost: free
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- EdGCM is a research-grade Global Climate Model (GCM) with a user-friendly interface that is suitable for use by students and can be run on a desktop computer.
- Creators: Columbia University (New York)
- Cost: individual student copy for $29; single user license $199, various prices for more copies (e.g. $49 each for 20+ copies); free 30-day trial demo version available.
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- Role-playing simulation for groups in which players assume roles as city leaders to prepare for and react to a natural disaster. Two scenarios: coastal city struck by hurricane or inland city with river flooding. Low-tech and high-tech (using laptops or tablets) variants available; also uses cards.
- Creators: Koshland Science Museum
- Cost: free
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- A large collection (25 items as of November 2013) of games and puzzles from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the EPA, PBS, and the Jason Project.
- Creators: NOAA Ocean Service Education
- Cost: free
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- PhET is large collection of simulations and virtual labs covering a range of scientific disciplines and mathematics. The original focus was physics for college students, but the project has expanded into chemistry, biology, and Earth science. Many of the sims are suitable for K-12 audiences.
- Partial list of PhET simulations covering atmospheric science topics: Balloons & Buoyancy, Glaciers, Gas Properties, Greenhouse Effect, Molecules and Light, States of Matter: Basics, Bending Light, States of Matter, Molecular Polarity, Reactions & Rates, pH Scale, Plinko Probability and Density
- Creator: University of Colorado at Boulder
- Cost: free
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- A collection of more than 30 games and interactives, mostly with space themes. Several solar and space weather items, including: Extreme Seasons, Magneto Bowling, Magneto Mini Golf, Solar Vision, The Great Escape, and Wrath of Ra.
- Creators: Space Science Institute
- Cost: free
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- Storm Evader is a game app for iPads. Role-play as an air traffic controller, routing aircraft aound storm systems.
- Creators: University of Oklahoma
- Cost: free (search for "Storm Evader" in Apple's iTunes App Store)
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- WeatherWise is a large collection of simulations and virtual labs covering weather-related topics. Categories include: storms, temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind, clouds, radiation, climate, basic meteorology, and miscellaneous and non-meteorology. Some simulations are Java-based; others are HTML5.
- Creators: Steve Ackerman and Tom Whittaker
- Cost: free
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- A series of five lesson modules with several embedded simulations. Includes "Earth's changing climates", "Interactions within the atmosphere", "Sources, sinks, and feedbacks", "Feedbacks of ice and clouds" and "Using models to make predictions".
- Creators: The Concord Consortium
- Cost: free
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- Extensive virtual labs for Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science, and Biology. Chemistry labs include gas laws and similar experiments related to atmospheric sciences.
- Creators: Brigham Young University
- Cost: commercial products, available via Pearson.
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