Region 8
Serving Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming and 27 Tribal Nations
Climate Education
The Rocky Mountain and Plains Regional Climate Science Education Collaborative
- EPA Climate Change for Formal and Informal Educators Listserve
- EPA Climate Change Newsroom
- October 3, 2007, Edutopia article "Truth and Consequences: Teaching Global Warming Doesn't Have to Spell 'Fear'"
Check out! Climate Ambassadors: http://www.epa.gov/climateforaction/
Partners in the Collaborative are:
Gore Range Natural Science School
Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education
Thorne Ecological Institute
Keystone Science School
Project Wet-Colorado
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Colorado Water Conservation Board
National Wildlife Federation
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Studies
If you are interested in joining the Collaborative, please contact Wendy Dew, EPA at: 303-312-6605 or Ali Goulstone Sweeney, CAEE at 303-273-9527.
Join the Rocky Mountain and Plains Regional Climate Science Education Collaborative e-mail listserve!
Teaching Climate Science Education Resources
The Climate Science Literacy Guide (http://climateliteracynow.org) serves as a framework for understanding and communicating about climate science. Points in the guide can serve as discussion starters or launching points for scientific inquiry. The guide can also serve educators who teach climate science principles as a way to meet learning standards in their science curriculum.
Looking for Climate Change 101 Information to use in your classroom/organization?
Grade School: National Wildlife Federation Climate Classroom Slideshow and Presenter's Guide
Middle, High School and Adult: Mark McCaffrey, Science Communications, CIRES Education & Outreach, University of Colorado- Boulder Climate Literacy, Essential Priciples and Fundamental Concepts
Climate Change Can Change the West, Rocky Mountain Climate Organization
Frequently Asked Questions about Global Warming and Climate Change: Back to Basics
Climate Change Video on YouTube
Some of the sites listed on this page are not on the EPA Web site. Please see our disclaimer information.
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EPA Climate Change for Kids Website
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EPA's Official Website on Climate Change for kids, parents and teachers. |
http://www.epa.gov/
climatechange /kids/index.html |
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Climate Change and Colorado's Future |
Learn About Colorado's Changing Climate |
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Earth Gauge |
Climate Fact Sheets |
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| 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.
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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.
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http://www.epa.gov/
climatechange /wycd/school.html |
| Climate Change Education |
Very large amount of resources for all age groups.
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http://www.climatechan
geeducation.org/ |
| Trash and Climate Change |
Activity Book: Climate Change, Waste, Recycling.
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| Climate Status Investigations | Welcome to The Keystone Center’s curriculum website 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.
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http://www.eo.
ucar.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.
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http://www.clima
teclassroom.org |
| Climate Check |
High school students can investigate the link between everyday actions at their high school, greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
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http://www.epa.
gov/climatechange /wycd/school.html |
| Climate Change and You Factsheets | Factsheets about what you can do to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. |
At Home
At School On the Road At the Office |
| 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.
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http://serc.carle
ton.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.
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http://www.ngdc
.noaa.gov/paleo/ctl/ |
| “Facing the Future" |
Offers Free Grades 6-8 Climate Change Curriculum Unit. An educator empowerment group, Facing the Future, is providing one of its many curriculum units on climate change free for download. The “Climate Change: Connections and Solutions” two-week curriculum unit for Grades 6-8 encourages students to think critically about climate change and to collaborate in devising solutions. The free unit includes hands-on activities, student readings, homework assignments, reproducible handouts and assessments for gauging progress.
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http://www.facingthefuture.org
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Wisconsin Publishes Climate Change Activity Guide for Teachers
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The 12 activities in the 86-page guide are designed primarily for students in grades 7 to 12. The guide contains activities applicable to a variety of subjects including sciences, math, language arts, social studies, and art. Each activity is designed to stand alone as an individual lesson; however, the more activities students complete, the better they will understand the many aspects of climate change.
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http://dnr.wi.gov/eek/teacher/
climatechangeguide.htm |
| Cool School Challenge |
The Cool School Challenge is an educational program intended to engage students and teachers in practical strategies to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions schoolwide.
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http://coolschoolchallenge.org/ |
| Center for Environmental Education -Curriculum for Educators | CEE works with K-12 schools to address climate change issues and to cultivate healthy lifestyles. Children learn best through experience. If their schools are green, children will learn to live that way. |
http://www.ceeonline.org/ |