Materials for Teaching Climate Change found in this module:
- Recommended resources for teaching climate change, including research summaries, data sets, graphics, and carbon footprint calculators.
- Classroom and lab activities contributed by faculty members.
- Courses about climatology and climate change, including syllabi and course goals.
- Workshops to help faculty teach climate change more effectively.
- Visualization Collections include: Weather and Climate, Atmosphere, Ocean-Atmosphere Circulation, Energy Balance, Paleoclimate, Process of Antrhopogenic Climate Change, and Impacts of Climate Change.
- Carbon Footprint Collection - find several strategies and examples for teaching this topic.
- Ideas for teaching with ice core data developed during the 2008 workshop.
Additional materials from across the SERC sites:
- Site Guide: Climate Change and Global Warming, a directory to a large variety of materials for teaching about climate change.
- Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) - part of the National Science Digital Library, the CLEAN network provides a comprehensive collection of climate science and climate literacy resources for students in grades 6-16 and informal citizen learners. The resources found in the CLEAN collection have been extensively reviewed by scientists and educators.
- Browse through over 40 introductory-level teaching activities about climate in the Starting Point Collection.
- Learn about how to teach controversial environmental issues and how this can be influenced by students' values, attitudes and pre-held beliefs.
- Atmospheric science and climatology data sets from the Using Data collection.
- Climate Proxies from the Microbial Life Educational Resources collection
- Communicating Global Climate Change: Using Debate to Engage Integrative Learning. This series of video clips from MERLOT/ELIXR demonstrates the use of debate as a strategy for engaging student with the issues surrounding climate change. Project materials, timelines and PowerPoint slides are also included.
- Climate Change Collection, a reviewed collection of educational materials on climate change
Past Workshops
Climate and Energy Webinar and Book Club Series
Monthly webinars addressing a range of topics in climate and energy. Held once a month from November 2010 through May 2011.
Teaching About Complex Systems Using the STELLA Modeling Software
Sunday, December 12, 2010, City College of San Francisco Ocean Campus. In conjunction with the AGU Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA
Teaching About Earth's Climate Using Data and Models
part of the Cutting Edge Follow-On Workshop Program
An online workshop held October 21-22 and 25-27, 2010
Teaching Climate Change from the Geologic Record
In association with the AMQUA Biennial MeetingUniversity of Wyoming - Laramie, held August 10-12, 2010
2008 workshop -Teaching Climate Change with Ice Core Data
This workshop featured presentations by Penn State's team of ice core researchers, Richard Alley, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, and Todd Sowers. After hearing about the science of ice cores and ice sheet modeling, workshop participants practiced accessing NOAA paleoclimatology data (more info) , guided by Carrie Morrill of NOAA. Then small groups were formed to brainstorm and design new teaching activities using ice core data. The following day, workshop participants were treated to a tour of Penn State's ice core freezer and ice core lab. To find out more about this workshop, see the presentations and outcomes from the workshop.
2006 workshop - Teaching Climate Change
August 14 - 15, 2006Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Co-Sponsored by AMQUA/USNC-INQUA
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