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How to support climate change education in your state’s schools - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Jun 4) |
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So you want to help to improve climate change education. Good for you!
Climate change education is a critical component of any plan for responding to the disruptions caused by a warming climate. Today’s students will spend the rest of their lives on a hotter planet, mainly owing to the actions - and inactions - of their elders, and they need to be prepared with appropriate knowledge and know-how. And yet climate change education in the United States is often far from adequate.
If you think that suitable legislation might be the remedy, you’re not ... Read more ...
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Young people push for a Green New Deal for schools across the U.S. - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Feb 23, 2024) |
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Many young people want their schools to help prepare them to face the climate crisis.
So students in the Sunrise Movement have been lobbying their local school boards across the country to pass a Green New Deal for Schools. In the Boulder Valley School District in Colorado, they recently celebrated a win.
Student activist Tilly Testa says the new resolution requires the district to implement clean energy initiatives, include climate change in the curriculum, and create disaster plans.
Testa: “We want students to have climate disaster plans, ... Read more ...
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Puppet king teaches Minnesota kids about climate change - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Jan 26, 2024) |
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A famous puppet once said, “It’s not easy being green.”
But Dawn Pape uses puppets to teach kids about climate change and make “going green” fun.
Pape: “I got the inspiration for this puppet show program because facts and fear only really get us so far, and we need joy, and we need a positive way to communicate climate solutions. And this seemed like the perfect way to educate kids and their adults.”
Pape is an environmental educator and executive director of the Minnesota-based nonprofit We All Need Food and Water.
In one of her ... Read more ...
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Report cards grade med and nursing schools on their response to climate change - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Jan 18, 2024) |
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In medical school, students spend long hours poring over textbooks and notes to learn how to care for their future patients.
And a growing number of students insist that their education must include climate change.
Climate change affects health in many ways, from heat-related illness to the growing spread of mosquito-borne disease.
Boyd: “I think there’s a lot of power in the students coming forward, recognizing that this is something we’re interested in and that we’re not getting.”
Kent Boyd is a nursing practice ... Read more ...
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Players of this board game explore how to power New York City on clean energy - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Oct 26, 2023) |
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New York City has committed to using 100% clean electricity by 2040. To learn what it will take to achieve such an ambitious goal, some students are playing a board game called Energetic.
During the game, each player or team takes on the role of a politician, an activist, an entrepreneur, or an engineer.
Working together, they try to add enough clean energy to the grid to power New York City by a set date. In the process, the players must maintain grid stability, keep enough public support to win elections, balance their budget, and overcome ... Read more ...
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College campuses launch new 'climate studies’ majors - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Oct 18, 2023) |
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When Teagan Connelly was in high school in Connecticut, climate change grabbed her attention - and promptly threw her into despair. “While some people are in the denying stage of accepting climate change, I was in the 'Oh no, the world is ending and we are all going to die’ stage,” she recalled.
That changed after she arrived in 2019 at New Hampshire’s Plymouth State University, drawn there by the school’s well-known meteorology program. In the spring of her first year, she took a climatology course from research associate professor Eric Kelsey in ... Read more ...
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Nonprofit trains science teachers to weave storytelling into climate lessons - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Sep 01, 2023) |
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Writing poems and interviewing family members might sound like assignments for a language arts class.
But a Washington State-based nonprofit called IslandWood is helping middle school science teachers weave these sorts of activities into their lessons about climate change.
“The focus of our work with teachers is … connecting the learning, the teaching they’re doing in the classroom, to their local place: their community, their students, the interesting identities of the students, the local ecosystems,” says Brad Street, IslandWood’s senior ... Read more ...
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Gas stoves are even worse for our health than previously known, new study finds - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Jun 21, 2023) |
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Within the past few years, scientists have found that gas stoves are a major source of air pollution within homes, responsible for almost 13% of all childhood asthma in the United States. But a new study from Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability and PSE Healthy Energy, a nonprofit research institute, warns that these appliances are even worse for our health than previously believed.
“This study presents data that is deeply troubling to anyone concerned about the health of their families in their homes,” Gaurab Basu, a primary care physician and ... Read more ...
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Electric vehicles alone can’t solve transportation’s climate problems - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Jun 08, 2023) |
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When Chris and Melissa Bruntlett took their family from Vancouver to the Netherlands for a work trip in 2016, they didn’t expect the journey to change their lives. But after spending a few weeks in Dutch cities, their children, then aged 8 and 10, had become enamored of the local way of life and didn’t want to go back to Canada.
With fewer cars on the streets in the Netherlands, the Bruntlett children had the opportunity to explore their surroundings unchaperoned.
“This is a quality of life that Dutch children take completely for granted,” Chris ... Read more ...
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The fossil fuel industry is donating hundreds of millions to university climate and energy research - Yale Climate Connections - Education (May 24, 2023) |
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Fossil fuel companies profit from the world’s dependence on coal, oil, and gas.
Some climate activists are concerned that some of these same companies fund university research about climate and energy.
“I don’t think there should be a space in climate research in which the fossil fuel industry is involved,” says Bella Kumar, a student at George Washington University and an organizer with a campaign called Fossil Free Research.
Kumar is the lead author of a recent report by the think tank Data for Progress. Her team looked at 27 ... Read more ...
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Most teachers support teaching students about climate change, survey finds - Yale Climate Connections - Education (May 18, 2023) |
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Kids today will face a future with more severe droughts, stronger storms, and rising sea levels.
Yet many schools are not preparing students for the climate of tomorrow.
“Of course there are exceptions … but overall, we’re just not doing enough,” says Judy Braus, the executive director of the North American Association for Environmental Education.
Her group recently surveyed hundreds of teachers and school administrators across the country.
The surveys showed that most teachers want to cover climate topics but many feel ... Read more ...
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Louisiana teacher and students examine the complexities of environmental injustice in their community - Yale Climate Connections - Education (May 16, 2023) |
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Last fall, when Tyler Colson taught her middle school students about climate change, she had them document environmental injustices in their own community.
After some research, the students learned that their Louisiana neighborhood has suffered more from flooding than many wealthier areas.
“They were angry, rightfully so,” Colson says.
Colson is a social studies teacher at Eva Legard Center for Coastal and Environmental Studies, a public school in East Baton Rouge.
She says most of her students are Black and live in low-income areas ... Read more ...
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Role-playing game helps Colorado students plan for climate change hazards - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Apr 25, 2023) |
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As the climate warms, communities in Colorado face more severe wildfires, droughts, and floods. And the risks will increase as today’s young people grow into adulthood.
“So educating students about these hazards, and really empowering them as community members that can take action to make their community more resilient to these hazards, is where we focus,” says Katya Schloesser, an education and outreach associate at CIRES, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.
Her team developed a middle- and high-school curriculum ... Read more ...
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Free curriculum helps Gulf Coast teachers educate students about sea level rise - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Mar 28, 2023) |
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As seas rise, flooding along the U.S. Gulf Coast is getting worse. And young people growing up in the region will inherit the problem.
So many teachers want to educate their students about climate change and sea level rise. But they don’t always feel prepared.
“The teachers are really overwhelmed by climate science sometimes because they just don’t know how to approach it. They’re really afraid that they’re not going to have the answers when their students ask them questions,” says Ali Rellinger, the education coordinator for ... Read more ...
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Wisconsin schools adopt electric buses - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Mar 22, 2023) |
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More than 25 million children in the U.S. ride school buses. And most of those buses spew diesel fumes that can worsen asthma and other conditions.
“We’re literally making kids sick by sending them to school in these buses,” says Francisco Sayu of the nonprofit Renew Wisconsin.
He says electric school buses offer a clean alternative.
They’re better for kids’ health and cut back on global warming pollution. They save districts money on fuel. And they’re expected to need less ... Read more ...
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Mycelium Youth Network aims to empower young people on climate change - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Feb 17, 2023) |
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In 2017, intense wildfires burned near Oakland, California.
“And I remember distinctly young students coming out of classrooms with nose bleeds or complaining about headaches from the smoke,” says Lil Milagro Henriquez.
At the time, she worked at an elementary school primarily serving Black and Latino children, whose communities often suffer disproportionately during fires and other disasters.
“I asked them what they thought about what was happening,” she says. “And what they responded was that they were really terrified about climate ... Read more ...
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How teaching kids energy efficiency in schools can benefit families at home - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Feb 07, 2023) |
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Feb 07, 2023 · Yale Climate Connections
What kids learn at school doesn’t stay at school.
So by teaching students about energy efficiency in the classroom, a nonprofit hopes to help families save energy - and money - at home.
“If I’m learning at school, 'We need to turn off all the classroom lights when we walk out the door,’ I’m certainly, when I go home, going to say to my mom, 'How come the lights in the kitchen or the hallway or the bathroom are on if we’re leaving the house?’” says Paula Glover, president of the Alliance to Save Energy.
The Alliance runs a K-to-12 energy education program used in hundreds of schools across 10 states.
Students learn about ... Read more ...
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Teen school board member in Idaho wants to expand climate change curriculum - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Nov 29, 2022) |
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Nov 29, 2022 · Yale Climate Connections
Shiva Rajbhandari is a high school senior in Boise, Idaho. And in September, he was elected to the Boise Board of Education.
“Students are the primary stakeholders in our education,” Rajbhandari says.
So he says young people’s perspectives on their education matter. And one of the topics he and other students want to learn more about is climate change.
He says he was introduced to climate change in his seventh-grade science class. That’s more than students get in many other schools, but he says it’s not enough.
Rajbhandari wants to see the topic taught at all grade levels - starting in kindergarten, where teachers can establish ... Read more ...
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Community forest project brings together people who have been excluded from environmentalism - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Sep 20, 2022) |
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Sep 20, 2022 · Yale Climate Connections
Forest management can help prevent dangerous wildfires. And a California-based group is putting communities at the center of this work.
Niko Alexandre (they/them) is with Shelterwood Collective, a nonprofit led by Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQ people. The group owns 900 acres of land north of the Bay area.
“Indigenous communities … have been telling us as a society for quite some time now that people are not separate from land and that the best way to keep land healthy is to have communities that are in deep and intimate and long-term relationship with land,” Alexandre says.
So Shelterwood staff and interns live on the land. And with a ... Read more ...
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12 titles for a multidisciplinary curriculum on climate change - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Sep 12, 2022) |
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Sep 12, 2022 · Yale Climate Connections
A college student 40 years ago might encounter climate change only in an environmental or Earth sciences major – and probably only in an upper level course. Now a student could, and arguably should, encounter climate change in just about any discipline – and fairly early on.
To demonstrate the latter point, for September, the month students generally are returning to classrooms, Yale Climate Connections has pulled together a multi-disciplinary curriculum on climate change, with 12 titles from 12 different disciplines. Each book in this month’s bookshelf has been published within the last year, some within the last few weeks.
The disciplines ... Read more ...
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Connecticut public schools must now teach about climate change - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Sep 01, 2022) |
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Sep 01, 2022 · Yale Climate Connections
This year, Connecticut public schools will be required to teach students about human-caused climate change. It will be taught as part of their regular science curriculum.
“And it does not get to be a victim of a budget cut or a conservative local board of ed that might think climate change is a hoax, because I’ve certainly heard that,” says state representative Christine Palm.
Palm is vice chair of the environment committee of the Connecticut General Assembly. She worked for years to pass legislation to require the curriculum change.
She says she was motivated in part by the urgency that many young people feel about solving the ... Read more ...
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Teaching climate hope as students envision a no-carbon 2050 future - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Aug 17, 2022) |
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Aug 17, 2022 · Yale Climate Connections
It has been easy to despair about climate change given a summer of relentless heat waves, wildfires, and catastrophic flooding. Yet, there is reason for hope with high public concern globally and enactment of landmark climate legislation that promises to provide billions of dollars in climate and clean energy initiatives over the next decade. It is, to date, the largest piece of climate change legislation in U.S. history, offering hope when most needed.
Climate change educators face significant challenges in working with high school and college students given their high level of pessimism and despair about the climate crisis. With the start of ... Read more ...
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Summer camp teaches kids about climate solutions - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Jul 19, 2022) |
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Jul 19, 2022 · Yale Climate Connections
This week, a group of young people are attending an overnight camp in Nevada County, California. They’ll sleep in cabins and spend time outside. But instead of traditional camp activities, these kids will focus on climate change.
“And not looking at it as so much of a crisis that paralyzes us, but as a movement that brings hope and a feeling of collective caring,” Teresa Langness says.
Langness is the education chair for Nevada County Climate Action Now and board president of the nonprofit Full Circle Learning. The two groups have sponsored the Climate Change Agents Camp since 2014.
Each year, campers learn about climate solutions ... Read more ...
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Free online environmental justice courses available for middle, high school students - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Jun 24, 2022) |
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Jun 24, 2022 · Yale Climate Connections
When Sierra Generette began studying environmental science at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, she assumed that her major would lead to a career working in nature or doing lab work.
But that changed when she learned about the human costs of pollution and people who are taking action to protect vulnerable communities.
“I never got to see environmental science in that lens, and I just thought it was so interesting,” she says. “It kind of made me feel like someone was a hero advocating for people that look like them.”
She wanted to help other young people connect environmental science to social ... Read more ...
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To reduce cafeteria waste, Baltimore schools teach kids where their food comes from - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Mar 31, 2022) |
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Mar 31, 2022 · Yale Climate Connections
At Baltimore City Public Schools, cafeteria staff serve tens of thousands of meals each day. But more than a quarter of the produce and milk that students put on their trays gets tossed in the trash.
When that food rots in a landfill, it releases climate-warming methane pollution.
So the district aims to reduce the food and recyclable waste it sends to landfills by 90% by 2040.
Anne Rosenthal of the district’s food and nutrition services department says a key to getting there is helping students feel more connected to the food served in the cafeteria.
“Incorporating their input as we put things on the menu and try new items is ... Read more ...
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Hundreds of schools, organizations to host teach-in on climate and justice - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Mar 18, 2022) |
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Mar 18, 2022 · Yale Climate Connections
In the 1960s, activists on many college campuses held events called “teach-ins” to raise awareness, foster dialogue, and inspire action against the Vietnam War.
Since then, teach-ins have been used as an activist tool for all sorts of issues, including climate change.
“It’s a form of education that really engages students in the issues of the day,” says Eban Goodstein, director of graduate programs in sustainability at Bard College in New York.
He’s helping organize the Worldwide Teach-in on Climate and Justice on March 30th.
Groups at hundreds of schools and organizations have planned panels and other events.
Goodstein ... Read more ...
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'Green Schools Challenge’ teaches Miami kids about climate problem, solutions - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Feb 24, 2022) |
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Feb 24, 2022 · Yale Climate Connections
Rising seas. High-tide flooding. More extreme storms. Miami is already feeling the impacts of climate change, and kids know it.
“It’s in the news now, and they see it,” says Linda Coolen, a fifth grade teacher at Oliver Hoover Elementary School. “They’re listening. They’re seeing things on social media. They see the impacts it has on our communities.”
To help students understand the problem and help solve it, Coolen’s school participates in the Green Schools Challenge.
The environmental nonprofit Dream in Green runs the program. It provides teachers in Miami-Dade and Broward counties with a free curriculum and ideas for hands-on ... Read more ...
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In praise of 'Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction’ - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Dec 14, 2021) |
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Dec 14, 2021 · Yale Climate Connections
Teaching climate politics means teaching climate change, at times a daunting subject for non-science students. Teaching climate change, therefore, means choosing the right book by the right person. Enter Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth System Science at University College London and the author of Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction, a slim volume with a big punch now in its fourth edition.
Part of Oxford University Press’s Very Short Introduction (VSI) series, Climate Change runs just 166 pages, making it, well, very short. But it’s also authoritative, accessible, and, at less than 12 bucks, a steal.
(Full disclosure: I wrote the VSI ... Read more ...
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Emory University to update medical school curriculum to include climate risks - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Sep 13, 2021) |
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Sep 13, 2021 · Yale Climate Connections
Climate change increases the risks of many health problems, such as heat stroke and asthma.
“Despite this … my peers and I, as we sat in our first-year medical school lecture halls, we really heard no mention of this whatsoever,” says Emaline Laney, a student at the Emory University School of Medicine.
On their own time, Laney and another student studied the connections between climate change and health. And they looked for opportunities in their classes where these connections could be taught.
“We ended up really one by one going through every single lecture we ever went through throughout our medical school curriculum,” she ... Read more ...
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School bus fleet to go electric in Montgomery County, Maryland - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Jun 11, 2021) |
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Jun 11, 2021 · Yale Climate Connections
Students in Montgomery County, Maryland, will soon have a cleaner, quieter ride to school.
The local public school system is replacing 25 of its old diesel school buses with electric. And it plans to convert its entire fleet of more than 1,400 buses to electric by 2035.
“We know that one of the huge benefits of this will be cleaner air inside of school buses, where students are,” says Todd Watkins, director of transportation for Montgomery County Public Schools.
He says that despite the benefits, he hesitated before deciding to go all-electric.
“Electric buses cost about three times what the equivalent diesel bus costs, so I was ... Read more ...
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To help address the climate problem, universities must rethink the tenure and promotion system - Yale Climate Connections - Education (May 28, 2021) |
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May 28, 2021 · Yale Climate Connections
As a geoscientist, I applaud President Biden’s ambitious vision of reducing carbon emissions by half by 2030 and 100% clean electricity by 2035. Because attaining these goals will require a good deal of research and development to shift to electricity production from zero-emitting sources, research-intensive institutions of higher education have an important role to play.
Yet as a faculty member and administrator at such an institution, I can attest that academia has some reckoning to do in order to truly engage in the battle to save the planet. Universities’ antiquated promotion and tenure system, originally designed to protect academic freedom, ... Read more ...
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Women scientists launch 'Science Moms,’ a climate campaign aimed at mothers - Yale Climate Connections - Education (May 05, 2021) |
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May 05, 2021 · Yale Climate Connections
Sixty-six percent of Americans are worried about global warming. Among moms, that number is even higher.
“We know that climate change is a threat to all people, and in particular our kids,” says Melissa Burt.
Burt has a young daughter and she’s a climate scientist at Colorado State University. She says that although many moms are worried about global warming, many do not feel equipped to take action.
“They don’t have the resources to understand the climate issue completely and aren’t sure what they can actually do to tackle it,” she says.
So Burt and a group of other women scientists teamed up to create a campaign called Science ... Read more ...
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How libraries are improving climate literacy in their communities - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Apr 01, 2021) |
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Apr 01, 2021 · Libraries do more than loan books. They also help build community and advance literacy.
“Information literacy is something of a crisis in our country, and … there’s maybe nowhere where we see this more clearly than around climate literacy,” says Nick Demske of the Racine Public Library in Wisconsin.
The Racine Public Library is one of 25 libraries with funding from the American Library Association to offer programming about climate change.
Demske says Racine has a diverse community, but that diversity is not well reflected in local climate action.
“So we wanted to put some events to particularly highlight that, interrogate that, ... Read more ...
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Georgia science teacher helps students recognize misinformation about the climate - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Mar 27, 2021) |
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Mar 27, 2021 · Teachers have a lot to cover in their classrooms, so many skim over climate change. But Sarah Ott, a middle-school science teacher in Dalton, Georgia, is committed to making time for it.
“Our students are begging us to talk about this,” she says. “They are begging us to address it, to see it, and to help them process and make sense of it.”
So Ott finds ways to make connections between climate change and the other material she’s teaching.
For example, a lesson about how heat affects water molecules can help students understand why warming temperatures cause more extreme rain.
Or a unit about how surfaces absorb and reflect light ... Read more ...
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Leadership academy in Phoenix to teach residents how to reduce urban heat - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Feb 15, 2021) |
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Feb 15, 2021 · The temperature in Phoenix, Arizona, often exceeds 110 degrees Fahrenheit. And as the climate warms, the number of hot days is on the rise.
“It not only impacts our health, our safety, but also our comfort and our economic development in the Phoenix metro area,” says Diana Bermudez of the Nature Conservancy in Arizona.
She says that at times, certain Phoenix neighborhoods are up to 13 degrees hotter than others.
“These neighborhoods, these hotter neighborhoods, are also the ones that have the highest child poverty and they have the lowest percentage of tree canopy cover,” she says.
Planting trees and vegetation can reduce the heat. But ... Read more ...
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College course teaches students how to be climate leaders - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Jan 15, 2021) |
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Jan 15, 2021 · In many schools, the study of climate change is limited to the science. But at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, students in one class also learn how to take climate action.
“You need to know how to communicate it to people. You need to know how to organize if we’re going to get anything done,” says Jessica Gutknecht in the Department of Soil, Water, and Climate.
Each spring, she co-teaches a class called “The Global Climate Challenge: Creating an Empowered Movement for Change.”
Gutknecht walks students through the science. Teddie Potter from the School of Nursing encourages them to look at climate change from a health ... Read more ...
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Study finds link between hotter weather and lower student test scores - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Jan 15, 2021) |
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Jan 15, 2021 · When the weather’s hot, it can be hard to concentrate and learn. And research suggests that as the number of hot days increases, student achievement may suffer.
“The adverse effects appear to accumulate over time,” says Jisung Park, an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It’s almost like a death by a thousand little cuts.”
Park’s team examined standardized test scores from 12,000 U.S. school districts over seven years. They also looked at local temperature data for each district.
They found that in years when a school had more hot days than normal, average test scores declined. But the drop ... Read more ...
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Many states get poor grades on their climate education standards - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Jan 08, 2021) |
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Jan 08, 2021 · Many states do not require schools to adequately teach students about climate change.
That’s according to a report from the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund and the National Center for Science Education, or NCSE. They evaluated each state’s science standards to see how clearly and accurately they cover the causes and consequences of climate change.
Each state received a grade. Wyoming was the only one to receive an A.
“Twenty earned a C+ or worse. Ten received a D or worse, and those include some of the most populous states in the country, such as Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio,” says Glenn Branch of NCSE.
State standards ... Read more ...
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Where to find upbeat news about climate change - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Sep 09, 2020) |
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Sep 09, 2020 · Yale Climate Connections
If you would like a regular dose of good climate and clean-energy news, these (free) weekly email newsletters are worth a look:
SueEllen Campbell created and for over a decade curated the website "100 Views of Climate Change," a multidisciplinary collection of pieces accessible to interested non-specialists. She is especially interested... More by SueEllen Campbell
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Hands-on curriculum teaches kids about mosquitoes - Yale Climate Connections - Education (Jun 14, 2020) |
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Jun 14, 2020 · For many people, mosquitoes are just a nuisance. But for some young people in Des Moines, Iowa, they’ve also become a source of fascination.
“They think a lot about, well, what happens if this mosquito larva is in cold water or if it’s in really hot water? Or what happens if this adult female mosquito can’t find a shady spot to rest in?” says Lyric Bartholomay, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “It’s awesome what kinds of questions emerge.”
In 2016, Bartholomay began working with Katherine Bruna of Iowa State University to create a hands-on curriculum about mosquito biology and public ... Read more ...
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