EARTH SCIENCE
Teaching Climate Change
Pedagogy
How can you help students understand the science of climate change using data and models while inspiring them to explore solutions and take meaningful action?
Delve into teaching climate change using tools of resiliency, regeneration, and social justice. This six-week course focuses on research-based pedagogy that helps students make sense of accelerating changes in Earth’s climate system and builds emotional health in young learners. Explore climate mitigation and adaptation strategies, ways to address disinformation and doubt, the use of data to model past, present, and future climate, and the benefits of Indigenous worldviews. At the end of the course, learners will be able to incorporate climate change into their curricula using human stories in ways that empower their students to take action.
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Delve into teaching climate change using tools of resiliency, regeneration, and social justice. This six-week course focuses on research-based pedagogy that helps students make sense of accelerating changes in Earth’s climate system and builds emotional health in young learners. Explore climate mitigation and adaptation strategies, ways to address disinformation and doubt, the use of data to model past, present, and future climate, and the benefits of Indigenous worldviews. At the end of the course, learners will be able to incorporate climate change into their curricula using human stories in ways that empower their students to take action.
Course Format
This online course is asynchronous, giving you the flexibility to complete weekly activities at your own pace. Essays, written by our authoring scientists, are supplemented by case studies, textbook readings, videos, interactive simulations, image galleries, and more. These resources provide the foundation for assignments as well as online discussions where you will exchange questions and ideas with course faculty and other learners. The course culminates in a final project, which is your opportunity to create activities that you can use with your students.
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Connecting to Your Classroom
This course focuses primarily on teaching about climate change. In addition to a primer on climate science, it includes a variety of resources that directly address teaching young students about climate change in ways that consider their emotional well-being. Towards the end of the course you will be led through the creation of lessons you can use with your students.
Course Author
Recent Course Faculty
This course is co-taught by an experienced classroom teacher and a working scientist. With low faculty to student ratios, this powerful combination of scientific expertise and classroom application creates opportunities for discussions about the course content and how it can be taught.
