Materials for Educators

K-12 Education

Curriculum

Facing the Future Two 2-week units for middle school and high school students that encourage critical thinking about the root causes and interconnections among issues related to climate change, "Climate Change Connections and Solutions" (2007). They also developed the Seattle PI's newspapers in education series; grades 5-10.

Communicating and Learning About Global Climate Change: An Abbreviated Guide for Teaching Climate Change from Project 2061 at the AAAS (2007).

American Museum of Natural History Activities and articles.

More:

The Important Little Life of Dylan Diatom

Digital Library for Earth System Education

Climate Literacy Network

World Wildlife Curriculum

Activities and Opportunities

Burke Museum Educational Programs . The Burke Museum, located on the UW campus, has exhibits, educator workshops, and hands-on teaching kits.

Cool School Challenge. A program developed by the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency in partnership with Puget Sound Energy and the Northwest Clean Air Agency and includes teacher training as well as on-line teacher and student resources. Built around the challenge for school communities to learn about climate change and to reduce the energy consumption and CO2 emissions in and around schools.

FIRST LEGO League's 2008 Challenge: Climate Connections Teams have 10 weeks to learn about climate change and create a robot (9-14 yrs) or a lego creation (6-9 yrs) that could contribute to solving the problem of global warming.

Summer Camps

UW Climate Quest, a 7-day summer camp that combines climate science and video production. Links: Burke and UW PCC. View the videos produced in 2008: YouTube Climate Quest Videos.

Informal and General Education

Climate Dialogues: 2People.org citizen's network organizes climate-related discussions in the Seattle area that lead up to a Citizen's Climate Summit.

WA Department of Ecology Climate Change Resources


Postdoctoral Teaching Opportunities

Future Faculty Fellows Workshop and Teaching Apprenticeship. This program, offered by UW Department of Biology, seeks to prepare postdoctoral scientists for successful careers that combine research, service, mentoring, and teaching. There is a September workshop on teaching and career development, and a teaching apprenticeship program that provides a faculty-mentored experience in designing and teaching an undergraduate course. Applications for the next workshop will be available in August 2009.

Huckabay Teaching Fellowships. One-quarter awards intended to give graduate students an opportunity to work on a specific project focused on teaching and learning at the college and university level. Projects are to be proposed by students, who will find faculty Teaching Mentors, either from UW or from a nearby community college, college, or university to collaborate with them in their projects.

Speaker Requests?

We have a group of graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff who are committed to informing students and educators in the background and issues related to global warming and climate variability, on a global and regional scale. Link here to submit a speaker request.


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