Climate Literacy: Essential Principles for Teachers is an online course that will serve educators who are seeking knowledge about scientific understandings of the Earth’s climate, historical climate change and recent climate change. Educators will explore pedagogical approaches to incorporating climate science and related topics into their classrooms and programs. The course will also explore the recently published guide, Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science by the US Climate Change Science Program, a well-vetted, authoritative overview of the basics of climate science.
Participants will engage in online discussions of readings, video lectures and other media as well as complete a final project applying their learning to their educational work. In the future, two additional one-credit courses will be offered which allow participants to delve more deeply into climate science and instructional opportunities.
The course is open to all educators (there is an 80% scholarship available to Colorado middle and high school teachers). If you are not an educator but still interested in participating in the course without credit as a pilot test participant, email Mark McCaffrey (mark.mccaffrey@colorado.edu) and you may be able to participate, since this course is a pilot project and the project designers are interested in soliciting as much feedback as possible. For more information, go to http://conted.colorado.edu/programs/sustainable-practices/additional-opportunities/climate-literacy-essential-principles-for-teachers/.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:42 pm
Hi,
I work for the Outreach Committee at the University of Colorado at Boulder. We’ve put together a website called Learn More About Climate that aims to localize climate issues, especially for Coloradans, and fill the gap between what the public knows about climate change and what they need to know. Our website includes teacher and student resources, classroom tools, blogs from leading climate change scientists, and links to other related websites.
We’d really like to connect with a broader audience so that people from Colorado and around the country can access the many tools and resources we provide. If you have any interest in providing a link to our website on your own website or blog archive, we’d greatly appreciate the traffic from your site, and would be more than happy to promote your efforts on our Learn More About Climate site as well. Please feel free to contact me anytime at roudane@oclorado.edu. Thanks, and look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Sophia Roudané
Student Assistant
CU-Boulder Outreach Committee
learnmoreaboutclimate.colorado.edu