Energy Literacy

Energy Literacy is a useful resources from the US Department of Energy:

• A series of 8 short videos illustrating 7 essential energy principles
• Lesson plans and other materials for educators
• Energy 101 course framework 
• Energy 101 videos
• Energy Education Toolbox (more resources for education)

Food and Water

Create your own dinner (or breakfast, or lunch) and see how much water was used in  producing your food: Food Water Footprint (LA Times)

MODIS Antarctica

Nice: Leafarctica!

The Yale Climate Opinion Maps

The Yale Climate Opinion Maps is basically the open-access version of their forthcoming paper in Nature Climate Change. If you don't like their mapping or data viz: download the data and try it yourself!

http://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/

Maps That Prove You Don't Really Know Earth

Nothing new here...but gets the point across:

Augmented Reality Sandbox

Looking for a fun project? How about building yourself an augmented reality sandbox! This would be great for teaching the concept of topography and contour lines.

• Augmented Reality Sandbox by Oliver Kreylos at UC Davis
• Instructions

Free GIS Data

It's difficult to keep these compilations current and up-to-date, but here are two good ones:

1. Free GIS Data by Robin Wilson
2. GIS Data Repository by Karen Payne