[Climchangewksp] Teaching Climate Change--Thanks and a Reminder!!!!

[Mogk, David]

Hi Folks,   I trust everyone made it home after the Teaching Climate
Change workshop and associated AMQUA meetings. This is just a quick note
of thanks to everyone for your interest and participation at the
workshop.

 

At the start of this school year, now would be a good time to check out
the various on-line resources that are available at:
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/climatechange/index.html

Please make it a point to use some of the teaching activities and
related resources in your own classes.  

 

We also are actively soliciting new teaching resources, so please plan
to submit any class activities you already have prepared (link to the
"Contribute A Resource", provide some brief contextual information on
the web-form, and simply upload any related files such as Word
documents, images, datasets, etc.  My staff will catalog and upload
these new contributions to the on-line collections).  Also, please
follow-through with your plans for developing new teaching activities.
It would be great if we could post a few cool new exercises using Mark
Chandler's Global Change Model, but all of the working groups made great
progress towards additional exercises as well. 

 

Please invite your colleagues who did not attend the workshop to both
use and contribute to the on-line collections-this is a community
service, and we hope to have a much broader audience involved.

 

Finally, we were very pleased with the close working relationship
between the On the Cutting Edge program and the AMQUA meeting.  We
appreciated the workshop reviews from the participants, and thanks for
your input.  Many people noted that they wished the teaching workshop
would have been a bit longer. Normally, a "stand-alone" workshop in the
On the Cutting Edge program would indeed be 3-4 days.  However, given
that the AMQUA meeting was already almost a full week with field trips
and technical sessions, we thought that another 3 or 4 days would be
just too much time taken away from everyone's busy schedules.  Having a
"teaching" workshop coupled with a "research" meeting has many
benefits-it is really important to make sure that educators are kept up
to date on new research advances, and in many cases, "researchers" will
take an extra day to attend a teaching event that they would not
normally attend if not attached to another meeting.   So, to help us
with future planning, what is your best advice?  Is it likely that folks
would indeed sign up for a longer teaching workshop (e.g. 2.5 -4 days)
if they are already coming to a research meeting?  Would it be better to
simply offer stand-alone teaching workshops?  Or, is it a good idea to
continue with the schedule we used this summer-a somewhat abbreviated
teaching event coupled with a major research event?  We realize that
there's much more that needs to be done on the topic of Teaching Global
Change, and  we expect that this summer's workshop can be viewed as only
the first step that will be followed by other events.  Any thoughts you
have would be greatly appreciated (send responses either to me directly,
mogk at montana.edu  or respond to the listserv.)

 

Thanks again to all for your participation. Have a great school year!

Dave Mogk

Montana State University 

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