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Regional Fact sheet For Adults, College and High School Level: Climate Change 101 , U.S. EPA (PDF, 1.7 mg, 4pp About PDF Files)
Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Sciences , NOAA (PDF, 4.76mg, 14 pp About PDF Files)
Grade School: National Wildlife Federation Climate Classroom Slide show and Presenter's Guide
Middle, High School and Adult: Mark McCaffrey, Science Communications, CIRES Education & Outreach, University of Colorado- Boulder Climate Literacy, Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts (PPT, 12 mg, 122 slides)
Climate Change Can Change the West, Rocky Mountain Climate Organization
EPA Climate Change for Formal and Informal Educators Listserve
See the Earth Day 2007 Climate Change Art Challenge Winners!
| Title | Description | Link |
| EPA Climate Change for Kids Web site | EPA's Official Web site on Climate Change for kids, parents and teachers. | http://www.epa.gov/ climatechange /kids/ index.html |
| Climate Change, Wildlife and Wildlands | Use the Climate Change, Wildlife and Wildlands: A Toolkit for Teachers and Interpreters to learn about the science of climate change and its potential effects on our nation’s wildlife and their habitats. | http://www.epa.gov/ climatechange /wycd/ school.html |
| Global Warming Wheel Card Classroom Activity Kit | A hand-held wheel card and other resources help students estimate household greenhouse gas emissions in order to encourage students to think about ways to reduce their personal, family, school and community contributions to climate change. If you are an informal educator, simply use the Global Warming Wheel Card as a part of your field activities. | http://www.epa.gov /climatechange /wycd/ school.html |
| Climate Change Education | Large amount of resources for all age groups. | http://www.climatech angeeducation.org/ |
| Trash and Climate Change | Activity Book: Climate Change, Waste, Recycling. | http://www.epa (11 pp, 385 KB, |
| Climate Status Investigations | Welcome
to The Keystone Center’s curriculum web site with over 65 lessons developed
to introduce middle and high school teachers and their students to the topic
of climate change and to provide new ways of thinking about the problem
and potential solutions. The curricula provide teachers with a non-biased
framework for investigating climate change. |
http://www.keys tonecurriculum.org/ |
| Climate Discovery | The goals of the Climate Discovery online workshop series is to provide standards-relevant science content, training on easy to implement hands-on classroom activities, and a broad overview of the geosciences to educator-leaders who are teaching sciences at the middle and high school levels. | http://www.eo.uc ar.edu/educators/ links_high.html |
| Climate Classroom | ClimateClassroom.org helps educate children about global climate change in accurate, developmentally appropriate, and hopeful ways. Sections designed for parents and K-12 educators provide talking points, attractive visuals, instructional guidelines, and helpful resource links for investigating the topic with children. An additional section for school-age children offers quality learning experiences and realistic suggestions for becoming part of the global-warming solution. | http://www.climat eclassroom.org |
| Climate Check | High school students can investigate the link between everyday actions at their high school, greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. | http://www.epa.gov/ climatechange /wycd/school.html |
| Climate Change and You Fact sheets (PDF) | Fact sheets about what you can do to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. | |
| The Climate Change Collection | The Climate Change Collection is a suite of science education web-based resources covering natural climate dynamics as well as human impacts on the climate system. | http://serc.carleton .edu/climate change/index.html |
| Climate Timeline | The Climate TimeLine Information Tool is designed as an interactive matrix to allow users to examine climatic information at varying scales through time. | http://www.ngdc. noaa.gov/paleo/ctl/ |
Rocky Mountain and Plains Regional Climate Science Education Collaborative
Wendy
Dew
Region 8 Environmental Education Coordinator
1595 Wynkoop St
Denver, CO 80202
Phone: 303-312-6605
E-mail: dew.wendy@epa.gov
U.S. EPA Environmental
Education Web site http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/
US EPA, Region 8, Environmental Education Web site http://www.epa.gov/region8/ee
