Using Case Studies, Mind mapping, and Social Media to Explore Climate Justice and Build Science Communication Skills
Woody Moses, Highline Community College
Students engage in a mind mapping activity about climate gentrification in Miami to learn about climate justice as well as how the climate systems and human systems interact with each other. Students then identify their own climate justice issue and complete an annotated bibliography of climate justice case studies related to that issue to prepare a post for Instagram. The activity ends with a final case study about the Lummi nation, who were able to effect change through a lawsuit against coal trains.

Human Health and Particulate Pollution in Wildfire Smoke: Fluid Flow and Wind Velocity Vectors in Physics
John Schaub, South Puget Sound Community College
Students learn about particulate matter pollution (PM 2.5 and PM 10) in wildfire smoke and its impacts on human health, as well as how it disproportionately affects marginalized groups and ways that individuals and communities can address these issues. They apply free body diagrams, Newton's second law, Bernoulli's equation, and vectors to study the atmospheric transport of particulate matter pollutants during a local smoke event. Students create an infographic, comic, poem, short story,or other artifact to contribute to a class zine to illustrate what they have learned.

Spatial Inequities of Heat Impacts in Portland Oregon: Examining Climate Justice Solutions through Civic Engagement in Environmental Science
Taryn Oakley, Portland Community College
This environmental science project introduces students to inequities caused by climate change, specifically how redlined neighborhoods in cities experience disproportionately higher temperatures than other areas of the city. Students explore ways that this climate justice issue can be addressed, with a focus on tree planting, and engage civically through public outreach by designing and creating buttons used as a conversation starter to share what they've learned with their community.

Climate Justice, Life Expectancy, and Gender Disparities in Intermediate Algebra
Tatiana Mihaylova, Bellevue Community College
After an introduction to climate justice and life expectancy, students complete a two-part project. For the first part of the project, students use life expectancy data and plots using the Cartesian coordinate system to make conclusions about the impact of climate change on health and longevity and to explore gender differences. For the second part of the project, students continue to practice math skills, and also practice math communication and build their math literacy, by engaging civically through conversation about the first part of their project, as well as how they can take action to support gender equity through family planning and education for women and girls as a way to address climate change.

Bridging Computer Science and Sustainable Transportation for an Equitable Green Future
Fatma Serce, Bellevue Community College

Threading Climate Justice, an Equity Ethic, and Systems Thinking Through a General Chemistry Course
Sonya Doucette, Bellevue Community College
Using a series of case studies incorporated into lectures, activities, and laboratory sessions, I thread climate justice throughout the first quarter of General Chemistry. Case studies highlight social justice issues exacerbated by the climate crisis, which humanizes abstract chemistry content and engages students with an equity ethic. For some case studies, students use systems thinking to identify the compositions and phases of matter present in real-world environments and contexts.

Investigating Climate Change Impacts on Human Health with a Civic Lens
Nancy Lane, Bellevue Community College
In this human biology module, students consider how climate change affects human health and the inequity of those impacts on some communities. They evaluate different perspectives on the issue and ways to address the issue by exploring case studies featured by StoryCorps, as well as peer-reviewed scientific literature, science magazines, government publications, and non-profit-based resources. Students then take the first step towards civic transformation - they talk with friends and families, telling their own story of how climate change is harming their health and the health of their communities.  

Particulate Matter Impact on the Lungs and on Communities
Jason Fuller, Bellevue Community College
Students apply biology to a case study about the disproportionate effects of particulate matter pollution on people living in historically redlined areas. These issues are introduced with a scientific paper and popular news articles, after which students explore United States Environmental Protection Agency pollutant data and maps of historically redlined areas in a free online ArcGIS app. Students use what they have learned to talk with a family member or friend about these issues and to devise an action plan for protecting themselves and their communities from particulate matter pollution during wildfire smoke events.

Exploring Sea Level Rise in Algebra and Pre-Calculus: Learning About Affected Communities, Creating Mathematical Models, and Practicing Mathematical Communication Skills
Mathi Radhakrishnan, Bellevue Community College
Students begin this activity by learning how communities in Bangladesh are affected by melting glaciers and sea level rise, as well as why these phenomena are happening as a result of global climate change. They complete a modeling activity by collecting sea level height data from an interactive map, using linear regression to fit a mathematical model to the data, and reflecting on the accuracy of their model, as well as climate change models in general, by doing calculations with their regression equation. The activity ends when they present their models and have a conversation, with a person who is not a mathematician or familiar with mathematical models, about how models are sometimes misused to create an illusion of uncertainty about humankind's contribution to climate change.

Waste Not, Want Not: Food Waste and Recovery for Food Security
Jennifer Kovacs, Agnes Scott College
In this activity, students learn how our food systems affect the global climate and many other environmental issues and impacts related to food. Topics include carbon-neutral agriculture, farming for food accessibility and cultural relevance, food preservation, and how individuals and communities can reduce food waste while promoting food justice, food security, and equitable access to sustainably produced foods. After exploring two case studies of college students who engage civically to reduce food waste and work toward food justice on their campuses, students choose their own campus-based civic action from a list of options.