Teaching middle-school children about climate change may be one of the most important things we can do to save the planet. It's those kids who have the most potential, according to a new study.It's at this developmental age that students can master complex concepts like climate change and...
What Others Are Saying about The Book To help educators tackle this essential but challenging topic with K-8 students, this new book includes 20 age-appropriate activities that can be undertaken at home, in school classrooms, outdoor spaces and in the community. Within the 80 pages of this ...
In addition to developing content knowledge about proxy records of climate change, orbital periodicity, and glacial-interglacial cycles, students also develop and practice their skills in making observations, interpreting data from graphs, photos, and tables, constructing hypotheses, performing calculations,...
To help educators tackle this essential but challenging topic with K-8 students, this new book includes 20 age-appropriate activities that can be undertaken at home, in school classrooms, outdoor spaces and in the community. Within the 80 pages of this large format paperback, you will find ma...
Curriculum materials designed to provide students with practice interpreting plotted evidence of global climate change were developed using graphs from the scientific literature and tested with one hundred urban high school students from a high-poverty school in a major northern city in the US. The ...
The group's co-ordinator, Scarlett Westbrook, says climate change is "glossed over". She surveyed students and found only four percent felt they knew enough about the climate crisis. "We need the knowledge to be able to deal with this post-climate breakdown world that...
This article introduces research currently in progress to investigate students' and academics' conceptions of uncertainty in teaching and learning about climate change science. Uncertainty is discussed in the context of climate change, followed by an introduction to the theoretical frameworks being used ...
‘belong’ to a teacher the same doesn’t apply to the outdoors and this empowers children to be themselves by just ‘being outside’, feeling the weather and observing what’s around them. Students at our case study school learn about seasonal changes and climate change topics by taking ...
students engage in discourse, which promotes rigorous academic thinking, and two, they can develop opinions about specific texts and about the process of censorship. For the activity to be effective, the teacher must frame the process as an open dialogue that debates opinions without judgment. Stu...
The science of climate change is a complex subject to teach. Teachers find climate change a challenging topic to teach due to a myriad of reasons. Gayford, 2010 describes some of the challenges teachers face while teaching climate change science as "first, the controversial nature of the topic...