Climate Machine | Free Investigation

Free climate investigation for ages 14–16. Students change key climate variables, compare outcomes and explore how Earth’s climate system responds.
Climate Machine is a short classroom investigation built around the free Dig Earth Studio interactive climate model.
Students experiment with different conditions, observe how the model responds and use their results to investigate relationships within Earth’s climate system.
Rather than simply reading about climate processes, students make predictions, test scenarios and use evidence from the model to explain what they observe.
Included in this free resource:

• Short Student Activity
• Link to the free Climate Machine interactive
• Structured questions to guide the investigation
  Students explore:
• factors that influence Earth’s climate
• cause-and-effect relationships within the climate system
• how changing one variable can affect modelled outcomes
• how simplified models can help us investigate complex systems
  Climate Machine runs in a browser with no login required.
  Suitable for secondary Geography, Environmental Science and general science, particularly around ages 14–16.
  Looking for a deeper investigation? The full Climate Investigation | Activity Pack includes a more extensive student investigation, answer key and teacher guide.
  This short activity is completely free. If you use it with your class, a short TES review helps other teachers discover Dig Earth Studio.