Games and Simulations

Test your memory while you learn about the chemistry of Earth's atmosphere! 

How would the climate change if we all made the same choices about things like transportation, energy use, diet, and more? Play along to choose our future!

See how Earth's temperature rises as the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases.

Sort photos of clouds by altitude, by composition, and into groups based on whether they are smooth or turbulent.

Test your memory while you learn about clouds! Click on tiles to find matching pairs of cloud photos.

Compare maps side-by-side of sea ice extent in the Antarctic over several decades.

Compare maps side-by-side of sea ice extent in the Arctic over several decades.

Compare maps of future regional climate projections to assess projected changes in temperature and precipitation.

Compare images of the Sun side-by-side with this interactive viewer. What features can you see in ultraviolet or infrared images?

Compare photos of different solar eclipses side-by-side.

Average global temperature rise during the coming century depends largely on the amount of carbon dioxide emissions. Compare possible scenarios for future climate.

Explore the factors that combine to create a snowstorm in this interactive.

See how Earth's temperature would change if the Sun's brightness increased or dimmed or if Earth's albedo was different.

Travel through geologic time to see how Earth's climate has changed. When was it hotter? When was it colder? Experience key points in Earth's 4.5-billion-year history.

Help the Joules family make choices that keep their greenhouse gas emissions low.

Can you predict the path of a hurricane? Watch how a hurricane moves across the ocean and figure out which cities will be impacted if it makes landfall.

The people of the planet need your help! As the global energy advisor, you must figure out how to keep emissions low and also make enough energy to power the planet.

Sort the molecules to learn about different kinds of greenhouse gases.

Learn how sea surface temperature, moisture, and wind conditions cause a hurricane to form.

Make a thunderstorm! Choose the right mix of temperatures and humidity to create a big thunderstorm.

How well can you identify cloud types? Try this game and test your skill!

Play the role of nitrogen atoms as they travel through different parts of the Earth system.

Click around in this interactive story to discover how ground-level ozone pollution forms.

Explore relationships between pressure and fluid flow in this virtual lab.

In this collection of games, young learners can make a raindrop, steer a hurricane, help a dog keep cool, dress a yeti for the weather, and help a community fight climate change.

Test your memory while you learn about Solar eclipses. Match pictures of solar eclipses and maps of the path of the November 2012 eclipse in Australia.

Sort pictures of El Niño and La Niña conditions based on sea-surface temperatures.

Test your memory while you learn about the Sun, space weather, and Earth's magnetosphere and upper atmosphere.

Sort pictures of the Sun and its features by temperature or by time in the sunspot cycle.

Use this model to explore the relationships between carbon dioxide emissions and our planet's average global temperature. See how raising, or lowering, carbon emissions can impact how much our climate may warm during the coming century.

Match tree ring patterns to decode climate clues from the past.

Explore the atmosphere by launching Virtual Weather Balloons! This "virtual laboratory" simulation lets you investigate the layers of Earth's atmosphere.

See what one neighborhood in Boulder, Colorado, looked like before and after the September 2013 flood.