High school students, frustrated by lack of climate education, press for change
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Several dozen young people wearing light blue T-shirts imprinted with #teachclimate filled a hearing room in the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul in late February. It was a cold and windy day, in contrast to the state’s nearly snowless, warm winter
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Hi all: I recently gave an overview presentation of our collection of educator learning resources on how to #TeachClimate. It includes dozens of resources that gather powerful approaches and tools from a broad variety of #ClimateJustice education projects. We are so grateful that they shared their work at a crucial moment of societal response. 🙏
Here are the links to the recording and slides…
🌿 VIDEO RECORDING: https://youtu.be/8-ZEcvAmJMA
Our team at the University of Washington publishes OER resources to support equity-focused science and climate education. You can check out our new resources in our latest newsletter.
It describes…
🌿 2 new practice briefs on: (1) integrating Crosscutting Concepts into #SciEd instruction and (2) how to engage youth in #ClimateAction
🌿 2 webinar recordings on teaching #ClimateJustice
🌿 3 #TeacherEd lesson plans on how to #TeachClimate
February 2023 Newsletter:
➡️ http://eepurl.com/ikFKYz
In our first session, we engaged in a new land-based activity for small groups focused on learning to see 'connectivities' and 'ecological caring' in the local setting (as described in the quotes from SHIMMER by Deborah Bird Rose).
We then explored the video "Climate Justice Is Social Justice" by Earthrise:
➡️ https://youtu.be/jY2eWJ-U_VQ
A more detailed agenda is shown in the Session 1 Slides:
We will be using these books and resources as anchor texts to support our inquiry—supplemented by various readings, podcasts, and media. We will work to identify pieces that are publicly available as much as possible.
https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691220550/the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/arts-of-living-on-a-damaged-planet
Excited to share the public web site of my grad seminar on CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN EDUCATION. In public pedagogy fashion, I'll share readings, resources, activities & designs based on our collective inquiry.
➡️ https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/climateeducation/
We will explore the broad question:
🌿 How should we promote learning in order to create more just, regenerative & flourishing conditions for all Earthly beings, human and otherwise? 🌿
You love to see it: these high school students are prototyping #albedo experiments for our #ClimateResilience unit, aligned to national and state science standards.
This year, my students are INCREDIBLY passionate about learning more about #ClimateChange ❤️🔥
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#NGSS #STEMeducation #ITeachScience #TeachClimate
“@PSutoris @schipper_lisa @geography_paul @PHellermann @arathings @siminadragos26 @jana_bacevic @NAnthropocene @EcoLabs @MorganHPhillips @IvetaSilova @GreenRupertRead @ManuelGrebe @mmbuchs @mariarovisco @SarahWest_SEI @UmaPradha1 @OZeveleva @TadeasZdarsky @ClimateHuman @felicitycallard I'd love to host you on my @columbiaclimate #SustainWhat webcast (streams to FB YT Linkedin & Twitter) with some discussants to explore your study of environmental learning in India and South Africa. Great to have it #OpenAccess, @mitpress! https://t.co/JzZwOKS6DH 1/”
Robert Sanscartier
Philip Bell
Kirstin Milks (she/they)
Heather Price, PhD
Andy @Revkin