Carrie Nelms

Who's Coming to Dinner? part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Coastal Hazards, Risk, and Environmental Justice:Activities
Use a metaphor of planning and executing a dinner party to illustrate what happens when a coastal hazard displaces people to a new area. Divide class into two groups; host and displaced. Then role play example of ...

Know Your Audience! Audience Analysis Exercise to Increase Audience Centered Communication and Teaching of Risk and Resilience part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching about Risk and Resilience:Activities
This activity will help develop critical thinking skills in analyzing an audience to customize a risk assessment communication message toward their needs. With climate change disasters becoming more prevalent,scientist will benefit learning an audience centered approach to deliver an effective risk assessment message to a multi-diverse audience.

Land Locked Community Impacted From Sea Level Rise 6200 Miles Away: Teaching an Audience Centered Approach to Risk and Resilience in Environmental Displacement part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching about Risk and Resilience:Real-World Examples
This educational case study page examines how sea-level rise threatens island nations like the Marshall Islands and drives environmental migration to inland U.S. communities such as Northwest Arkansas, emphasizing an audience-centered pedagogical approach to teaching risk, resilience, and socio-economic adaptation in environmental displacement contexts.

Environmental Communicators: Bridging the Attitude-Behavioral Gap in the Science of Science Communication part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2016:Program:Oral Sessions:Friday A
"The science of climate change is not 'a problem' waiting for 'a solution,' rather, it is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we should think ...

3983 Environmental Communication: Messaging Around Climate Change Issues with Diverse Audiences part of Rendezvous 2015:Program:Abstracts
Land-Locked Community Impacted By Sea-Level Rise 6200 Miles Away Due to sea-level rising from climate change issues, the inhabitants of the Marshal Islands have been moving 6,200 miles away to Northwest Arkansas. ...

Recruiting, Retention, Diversity & Teaching About Climate Change part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2016:Program:Oral Sessions:Friday A
Event page for an Earth Educators Rendezvous 2016 oral session focusing on recruiting, retention, diversity in geoscience education, and innovative pedagogical approaches for teaching climate change, featuring abstracts from multiple presenters on student engagement, ethnogeology, and socio-environmental case studies.

Teaching Controversial Topics part of Rendezvous 2015:Program:Oral Sessions
See Related Poster Session

Teaching Controversial Topics part of Rendezvous 2015:Program:Poster Sessions
See Related Oral Sessionwith discussion @ 2:15pm