Engage with STEM Design Challenges by designing solutions in the aftermath of a fictional hurricane or stranding on a deserted island. Collaborate to evacuate citizens, build shelters, and develop alternative energy systems while redesigning the city’s infrastructure for future disaster prevention.

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Learn how to integrate hands-on, real-world engineering design into your classroom, equipping students with critical thinking and collaboration skills to address complex challenges like disaster preparedness, sustainability, and engineering solutions.

SPEAKERS:
Sandra Ryack-Bell, Regan McKinnon, Kathryn Atkins

This lesson anchors student learning in real world local climate issues as they combine data literacy and art in the style of current working artists. Students turn graphs of local air pollution trends into art pieces that showcase their understanding of the sources and effects of each pollutant.

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Teachers gain ideas to create multidisciplinary units around authentic place-based climate issues while developing students’ data literacy skills. This lesson is engaging and produces powerful and beautiful evidence of student learning. Adaptable lesson plans will be included.

SPEAKERS:
Rachel Carpenter

Explore how to design an immersive research trip that aligns with NGSS life science standards. I will share my experience leading a trip for 40 ninth-graders to the Bahamas, where students engaged in authentic science by conducting hands-on fieldwork, and what the students learned in the end.

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Attendees will learn what NGSS life science standards are aligned in the overseas trip that incorporates authentic field research methodologies like GIS, environmental data collection, and graphing to create meaningful, real-world science experiences for students.

SPEAKERS:
Akira Wong

Developed by experts in environmental health and K-12 STEM education, this unit for grades 3-5 teaches students how to understand and improve indoor air quality. Students read stories and engage in hands-on activities to explore indoor environments and take action to create healthier spaces.

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Teachers will learn how to engage grades 3-5 students in investigating indoor air quality through storytelling and challenge-based activities. This modular unit empowers students to become active problem-solvers and builds their action competence in creating healthier indoor spaces.

SPEAKERS:
Chris Link, PhD

Student leaders of International Student-led Arctic Monitoring and Research, a 20-year old after school science program. They will showcase 7 research groups' data and summer trip experiences including highs and lows on their science teaching and learning journey.

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Gain a model for a science club doing authentic, novel research including concepts and lessons learned through 20 years of ISAMR. Adults will be on hand for questions, contacts and information sharing. Microbiome and permafrost depth feature heavily with some engineering and coding.

SPEAKERS:
Carla Guarraia

Scientific ocean drilling is disappearing from textbooks. An OER was developed to share the ships and sampling process, profiles of scientists and crew, and onshore analyses. The OER includes multimedia material, interactive fact checks, and student exercises to increase ocean literacy.

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Viewers will learn about the organization of a free educational resource on scientific ocean drilling, which includes spotlights of the scientists and crew in text and audio, video clips, interactive fact checks, and questions and exercises, to increase student ocean literacy.

SPEAKERS:
Laura Guertin

We show how instructional materials can be adapted for local contexts—and how to elevate issues of climate justice and ethical responses to the climate crisis. Participants will learn about how a high school physics unit from OpenSciEd was adapted to attend to Indigenous land rights and sovereignty.

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In relation to science and engineering projects in society (e.g., associated with the energy transition, ecological restoration, urban development), teachers will learn how to engage students in exploring moral and ethical dimensions of trade-offs in project approaches.

SPEAKERS:
Philip Bell, Kelsie Fowler

Learn how to leverage the power of social media to break down student misconceptions, rather than build them. Teachers will engage in an activity finding fake news on social media, then discussing how to adapt the activity for their own classrooms.

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Teachers will experience an engaging activity designed to help students directly confront misinformation they encounter on social media. By having students confront their own misconceptions about hot topics, we empower them to be more responsible consumers of information in the future.

SPEAKERS:
Jessica Dobrin

Climate change disproportionately impacts people living in already vulnerable communities. Developing student understanding of equity and justice is crucial to building a more climate literate society. Join us to explore hands-on activities that empower students to become part of the solution.

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Participants will explore strategies for facilitating meaningful conversations about climate justice through hands-on activities that encourage students to identify inequities that leave communities vulnerable to the effects of climate change and to brainstorm ways to counteract those impacts.

SPEAKERS:
Youna Kim, Rosa Pongchit, Timanda Wertz

Sponsoring Company: NOAA

Dive into a sea of classroom-ready resources! With standards-aligned teaching materials, tutorials, hands-on activities, PD, and funding opportunities, NOS Education supports ocean, coastal, and climate learning at ALL levels and engages students and communities in hands-on stewardship.

SPEAKERS:
Alexandria Gillen

Join us to learn how to use a place-based approach with data from NASA’s Earth System Data Explorer tool. Participants will take part in hands-on activities and pedagogical discussions to think about implementing place-based, data-rich activities using NASA resources in their own classrooms.

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Participants will learn how to access and use both primary and secondary data from NASA’s Earth System Data Explorer and other NASA resources (e.g., My NASA Data Literacy Cubes) to explore global phenomena at local scales, and reflect on instructional trade-offs for using different tools.

SPEAKERS:
Sara Salisbury, Karen Lionberger

In this session, teachers will unpack the OpenSciEd Chemistry curriculum from a teachers point of view. Then they will work together to share tips and best practices around utilizing OpenSciEd in chemistry for their specific school context.

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Participants will have a better understanding about OpenSciEd in Chemistry through sharing with other teachers - no matter where they are in using this curriculum - and identify a future working group to navigate the curriculum together.

SPEAKERS:
Anthony Stetzenmeyer

Climate change affects us all, but not equally; the worst impacts are felt by marginalized communities. This is everyone’s problem to solve! We’ll explore real examples of kids coming together to make a meaningful change, and the role you as a teacher can take to support students in taking action.

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Participants will explore issues affecting their local communities and discuss ideas for curriculum around said issues. They will also develop skills for facilitating discussions with students and supporting children’s ideas for creating change.

SPEAKERS:
Rina Zampieron

Explore modern livestock farming practices and their environmental impacts. Classroom activities will be shared to help students understand why plant-source and animal-source foods differ in their environmental impact as they think critically about the trade-offs involved in various food systems.

TAKEAWAYS:
Animal-source foods have a larger environmental footprint than plant-source foods (per unit of food produced). Evaluating the sustainability of food production systems requires critical thinking and an evaluation of socioscience to understand factors outside of science that impact our food choices.

SPEAKERS:
Andrea Gardner

Come learn about Data Puzzles, a free resource co-designed by climate scientists and instructional specialists from the University of Colorado Boulder that combine authentic data with Ambitious Science Teaching instructional practices to help students make sense of phenomena.

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Participants will explore the Data Puzzles instructional framework in the context of the Wind Farms of the Future resource and leave prepared to implement these 2-3 day sensemaking lessons in their own middle and high school classrooms.

SPEAKERS:
Ann Marie Dubick, Kerri Wingert

NOAA Ocean Service Education offers classroom ready, standards aligned Earth science resources for teachers to immediately plug into existing curriculum, as well as opportunities to receive up to $5000 in funding to develop and carry out stewardship projects in their school or community.

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Educators will receive classroom ready, standards-aligned resources so they and their students can learn about Earth science in the air, on the ground, in the ocean, how it relates to their everyday lives, and how they can receive funding to address environmental impacts to their community

SPEAKERS:
Bruce Moravchik

This workshop teaches methods for schoolyard investigations aligned with Pennsylvania STEELS standards. Students collect and analyze local environmental data, designing solutions to enhance community well-being. It emphasizes 3-dimensional learning and fosters student-led change.

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Participants investigate the links between climate change, environmental impacts, and human health. They gather and evaluate data for sensemaking, connecting it to environmental justice topics. The focus on instructional practice enhances educators' capacity to teach environmental literacy.

SPEAKERS:
Jennifer Peglow

Developed by experts in environmental health and K-12 STEM education, this FREE and turn-key, research-based unit empowers middle school teachers to bring climate science into their classrooms through engaging, hands-on activities and real-world problem-solving challenges.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will learn how to use a research-backed climate science unit in their classrooms. They’ll discover practical strategies for engaging students through experiments, case studies, and design challenges, making climate science accessible, interesting, and relevant to middle school learners.

SPEAKERS:
Chris Link, PhD

Youth need opportunities to learn about green colonialism and how Native Science and Indigenous sovereignty are fundamental to addressing the climate emergency. Workshop participants will engage in talk activities designed to support non-Indigenous youth in learning and processing these topics.

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This session will support educators in understanding that climate experts across the globe are calling for the broad recognition of Indigenous sovereignty and climate expertise as fundamental to mitigating climate change and building a just future.

SPEAKERS:
Philip Bell, Kelsie Fowler, Deb Morrison

How to incorporate climate change education into cross-curricular Problem Based Learning for K-12 students. The session emphasizes hands-on learning through solution oriented design challenge collaborative activities, where attendees collectively engage in tackling critical climate change issues.

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Participants will get the opportunity to work through several parts of different Climate Change PBLs.

SPEAKERS:
Edward Cohen, Brielle Kociolek

Science education has a key role to play in supporting a just transition to the climate crisis. Participants will learn about 20 priority areas associated with climate and environmental justice—and explore educational approaches, resources, and groups related to these areas.

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Working towards climate justice involves a multifaceted set of issues and priorities. Teachers will identify which priority areas relate to their goals and context and learn about related resources. A climate justice framework will help teachers learn about different dimensions of climate justice.

SPEAKERS:
Philip Bell, Kelsie Fowler, Deb Morrison, Nancy Price

Youth Climate Summits are a great way for teachers and students to discover their climate superpowers that can support their leadership on climate action in their schools and communities. Discover how to create your own action plan to transform your organization.

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Attendees will explore their own superpowers and be provided tools to start developing their own climate action planning and leadership goals for their schools and communities.

SPEAKERS:
Dylan Fedell, Lauren Fosbenner, Kathryn Semmens

How do we help youth navigate the complexities of climate change and its impacts in their own communities? Engage in hands-on activities from Smithsonian Science for Global Goals guides on climate action and resilience to facilitate discovery, understanding, and action for a sustainable future.

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Smithsonian Science for Global Goals guides are essential resources that combine climate science comprehension with a deep understanding of the ways communities relate to the changing climate and the collective and individual actions students can take to create a positive climate future.

SPEAKERS:
Khadijah Thibodeaux, Heidi Gibson

Sponsoring Company: NOAA

Join us for a tour of our education website and discuss how NOAA can meet your needs. We’ll show you how to navigate our educational resources on the ocean, coast, Great Lakes, weather, and climate. Bring your questions and comments on what you’d like from us. This session is for K-16 educators.

SPEAKERS:
Tami Lunsford, Michael Gutierrez

This session introduces a storybook-like scaffold that helps elementary students purposefully evaluate connections between lines of evidence and alternative explanations of phenomena to construct a deeper understanding of the topic.

TAKEAWAYS:
The scaffold encourages students to engage in science practices, literacy, and argumentation strategies to communicate basic content knowledge on climate change.

SPEAKERS:
Chantelle Renaud-Grant, Lorraine Ramirez Villarin

Using a probe from the popular “Uncovering Student Misconceptions” series, the co-author will share student responses to address this foundational concept for teaching climate change. You will also gain a deeper understanding of the power of formative assessment.

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Understanding student misconceptions in this foundational component of climate change is critical prior to teaching the subject. Discover how engaging, open-ended probes provide insight into student ideas and misconceptions while learning ways to support them in understanding the concepts.

SPEAKERS:
Laura Tucker

Sponsoring Company: Carolina Biological Supply Co.

Help your students understand complex concepts like climate and climate change through modeling. Participants will do hands on activities that can be used in the classroom to explain climate mechanisms and explore how we know climate is changing.

SPEAKERS:
Crystal Risko

Dr. Michael Wysession, NGSS co-author and geophysics professor, will explore ideas for using the record-breaking high globally-averaged 2023-2024 temperatures and associated extreme weather events as the basis for climate-related storylines that explore the results from the IPCC AR6.

TAKEAWAYS:
The extreme weather events that have been occurring around the world (heat waves, extreme flooding, forest fires) can engage students and prepare them for assessments for the HS-ESS3-5 and HS-ESS3-5 performance expectations, covering climate forcings, feedbacks, impacts, and environmental justice.

SPEAKERS:
Michael Wysession

In this workshop, explore nationwide weather and climate data through an online graphing tool that simplifies data visualization. The tool makes it possible for students to focus on analysis and interpretation, rather than getting stuck on complex data. http://uanyc.science/pwc

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Attendees will learn how to use the free AMNH Weather and Climate graphing tool with their students, and will walk away with worksheet resources that make this graphing tool even more accessible to their students.

SPEAKERS:
Jasmina Nikolov, Rachelle Travis

Sponsoring Company: Adventerra Games North America LLC

Many young people are overwhelmed by the climate crisis, so let's give them the skills & confidence to protect the planet! Adventerra's eco games engage students, achieve curricular goals, and teach STEM skills. We'll play some games & discuss how to respond when climate emotions show up in class.

SPEAKERS:
Carolyn McGrath, Sue Mundell, Bryan Mundell, Ruthie Mundell

Explore how a Watershed organization partnered with a large suburban PA school district to adapt the OpenSciEd curriculum, creating engaging learning experiences that build environmental literacy through real-world, local issues. Hear from formal and non formal educators on leveraging the rich resources available.

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We’ll share how we set the vision for our work, planned field experiences, trained volunteers, and piloted lessons to ensure learning goals were met. Participants will engage in discussion to identify how they can utilize this process to identify partners and field experiences that fit into OpenSciEd.

SPEAKERS:
Erin McCool, Eryn Jackson

Learn how to engage students with the EN-ROADS climate simulator to explore policies that can provide solutions to climate-related problems in their communities. Leave the session with practical resources that encourage students to take local action while developing their global competence.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn about the EN-ROADS climate simulator by exploring policies that can provide solutions to climate-related problems in local communities. Learn how to connect these local issues to global concerns by considering the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

SPEAKERS:
Holly Emery, Zachary Orefice

This workshop will delve into the critical role of soil in the sustainability of our planet, incorporating the four pillars of sustainability: economic, social, environmental, and cultural. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the impact of human activities on soil health.

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Using classroom-ready resources shared, participants learn about the economic benefits of healthy soil, the social implications of soil degradation, the environmental importance of soil conservation, and the cultural significance of soil in different societies.

SPEAKERS:
Melanie Szulczewski, Margaret Holzer

Recent studies show even young students, especially girls, doubt their STEM skills or STEM futures because they know little about real STEM people. Bring scientists and engineers' exciting work alive, and inspire kids, with new, fun hands-on/gloves-on/feet-on STEM activities.

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Discover how and where scientists do what they do—from Antarctic penguin colonies to the International Space Station—and learn easy, inexpensive, innovative ways and tools for getting kids to imagine themselves in real and valuable STEM work.

SPEAKERS:
Deborah Rose

Sponsoring Company: NOAA

Teek and Tom Explore Planet Earth investigates the relationship between the ocean, weather and climate on local to global scales. You’ll sample some of the ten hands-on activities for upper ES and MS students to reinforce Earth science concepts related to oceanography, meteorology and climate.

SPEAKERS:
Peggy Steffen, Kurt Mann

Explore an extreme heat based phenomenon with the Understanding Global Change (UGC) framework’s modeling practices. Learn UGC practices and tools to help incorporate an Earth systems perspective into your curriculum and adapt existing resources.

TAKEAWAYS:
Experience the nature and processes of science by constructing explanations about a global change phenomenon with the Understanding Global Change framework and explanatory modeling practices.

SPEAKERS:
Alec Barron

Come ready to wear your student hats and your teacher hats as we dive deep into how to integrate education for sustainable development (ESD) into the science classroom. Through ESD, we empower students to become advocates for environmental justice and sustainability!

TAKEAWAYS:
The major takeaway from this session is that regardless of your level of familiarity with ESD anyone can begin the process of integrating it into their classroom and that its natural ties to science content allow us as educators to promote advocacy for environmental justice and sustainability.

SPEAKERS:
Nicholas Kukla

Sponsoring Company: HHMI BioInteractive

Human activities lead to changes in environmental processes, including the frequency and intensity of wildfires. Join us as we use free BioInteractive resources to help students analyze authentic data and construct explanations for how changes in the environment influence wildfire dynamics.

SPEAKERS:
Lee Ferguson, Chris Monsour

Learn about making art as a way of understanding and engaging climate and environmental justice issues happening in our world today. We will engage the current science related to climate change and produce art to creatively explore and communicate just responses.

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Attendees will come away understanding of how climate science can be engaged and represented through various artistic forms—and the pedagogical power of art pedagogy. People will use supplies in this workshop to make their own creations during the session.

SPEAKERS:
Philip Bell, Nancy Price

Attendees will learn strategies to engage students in designing models to make sense of a local phenomenon focused on watersheds. Attendees will practice sense making of topographical and pH data to design three dimensional models, then use said models to make predictions about future phenomena.

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Students build models in classes all the time; but how can we guide students to use models the way scientists do? Urban schools face the challenge of explaining natural phenomena students have not experienced. These models allow students and scientists to make sense of these phenomena.

SPEAKERS:
Tobias Kochenderfer, Anna Verdiguel Gillet, Michael Bogan

Conversations on climate change and sustainability can be challenging. Join state and national leaders on climate change and sustainability education as they share newly published findings and help you plan for navigating these difficult conversations in your own community.

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Participants will leave with tools and resources to engage productively in conversations and generate strategic communications for their own context. They will rehearse facilitating a difficult conversation with a specific interest-holder from their community and leave practiced and confident.

SPEAKERS:
Lori Henrickson, Shannon Wachowski, Carol ODonnell

Sponsoring Company: NOAA

Join the National Earth Science Teachers Association to explore NOAA's resources and dive into interactive, data-rich investigations. Engage students in exploring human impacts on terrestrial and ocean ecosystems, environmental changes, and pathways to informed decision-making.

SPEAKERS:
Peggy Steffen, Margaret Holzer, Diane Tom-Ogata, Alexandria Gillen

Explore how PBS video clips paired with free, standards-mapped support materials engage students in positive, solutions-based environmental stories that can reinforce curriculum learning, grow and flex crosscutting skills, instill hope, and inspire action.

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Learn how free, solutions-based stories from PBS LearningMedia can enhance environmental science learning by instilling hope and inspiring action in your students.

SPEAKERS:
Susan Chyczewski, Tania Burchell

We will discuss plans for working with a cohort of 12 K-5 teachers on developing: leadership skills, climate change content knowledge, and strategies for including ALL learners in STEM teaching over the course of a 5-year period. We will be at the beginning of an NSF-funded Noyce grant.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn tools and strategies for enhancing inclusive STEM teaching and learning about climate change for K-5 teachers.

SPEAKERS:
Matthew Taylor, Melissa Zrada, Helen Corveleyn, Lauren Madden

This session will focus on engaging educators with quick, actionable insights and teaching strategies that bring the study of ancient climates into the classroom. Participants will explore classroom-ready activities such as ice core simulations and data analysis tools that align with NGSS standards.

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Key takeaways: Understanding how Earth's climate has changed over time using proxy data. Hands-on classroom activities to engage students with real-world applications of paleoclimatology. Tools to connect paleoclimate studies with modern climate science, enhancing climate literacy.

SPEAKERS:
Diane Ripollone

In order to better understand how well existing environmental science education pedagogies and approaches prepare young children to handle the complexity of climate change, this session puts forward critical methods and approaches to teaching environmental science education.

TAKEAWAYS:
Environmental education should be grounded in environmental literacy, using multiple perspectives beyond human-centric to understand the interconnections between natural systems and human activities, leading to children developing a sense of ecological citizenship.

SPEAKERS:
Peter Oyewole

Developed by experts in environmental health and K-12 STEM education, this FREE and turn-key, research-based unit empowers middle school teachers to bring climate science into their classrooms through engaging, hands-on activities and real-world problem-solving challenges.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will learn how to use a research-backed climate science unit in their classrooms. They’ll discover practical strategies for engaging students through experiments, case studies, and design challenges, making climate science accessible, interesting, and relevant to middle school learners.

SPEAKERS:
Chris Link, PhD

The Women In Natural Sciences Program encourages participants to advocate for themselves in their exploration for other educational and career related opportunities. Sierra Destefanis shares her capstone project on how seaweed farming can help mitigate the impacts of climate change.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participation in OST programs provides real word insight in STEM fields. As a student interested in pursuing animal sciences, understanding how historical dramatic climate shifts impacted animal populations provides insight to how these changes will impact existing wildlife populations.

SPEAKERS:
Kimberly Godfrey

Water is the major force in shaping our planet. Students use simple models to measure water outwash and soil erosion. Simple models show students how plants and plant residue play major roles in preventing water outwash and soil erosion.

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Students will be able to explain how slope, wind and precipitation affect the movement of water across soil surfaces and how soil is carried by water on a slope using terms from their geography vocabulary lists (sediments, weathering, erosion, etc.).

SPEAKERS:
Suzanne Cunningham

Learn about Educating for Environmental Change, a free Indiana University project that helps educators teach the science and policy of climate change, and participate in exemplar activities.

TAKEAWAYS:
The Educating for Environmental Change project utilizes the following driving questions: how do we know the climate is changing; what are the impacts of these changes; how can we mitigate these changes; and how do we cultivate optimism in our students while teaching them about climate change?

SPEAKERS:
Adam Scribner

Addressing climate change can be challenging. Students are given tools for evaluating information then provided a series of myths about climate change. Using reputable data, they dispel the myths with accurate information and use multiple explanations to understand common misconceptions.

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Students are provided with a checklist to determine if information is accurate on a fictional web page. Through small group discussions, students share their perceptions of accurate data and what it means, then challenged to decide if this information is valid in helping to understand climate change

SPEAKERS:
Laura Tucker

Sponsoring Company: NOAA

Build data literacy with NOAA! Learn how to access and use NOAA’s data-rich resources, lessons, and visualization tools. We will choose 3-5 data resources based on your interests and walk you through navigating the resources and offer suggestions on incorporating them into your teaching.

SPEAKERS:
Kayla Smith

Explore how episodes of the PBS program Weathered pair with free, standards-mapped support materials to reinforce your Earth science curriculum, grow and flex students' crosscutting skills, and keep your classroom's climate content current.

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Learn how to integrate dynamic media from the PBS program Weathered into your science classroom through PBS LearningMedia's free resource collection.

SPEAKERS:
Merek Chang, Tania Burchell

The CLEAN collection is the only website needed for vetted instructional resources about climate, climate change, and energy. This session will introduce participants to the collection and the resources it has to support climate change education in informal settings.

TAKEAWAYS:
When quality teaching materials to teach about climate and energy are needed for a variety of teaching scenarios, having one place to search is a game-changer, especially knowing that the resources have been reviewed by scientists and educators, and they are connected to the NGSS standards.

SPEAKERS:
Margaret Holzer

PART OF NMEA SHARE-A-THON

TAKEAWAYS:
Members have fabulous ideas! Come join us in NMEA at NSTA...at the Mid-Atlantic Marine Education Association

SPEAKERS:
Dawn Sherwood

PA’s globally recognized new Environmental Literacy & Sustainability standards and network have led to formal and nonformal education partnerships. Leave with strategies to apply at your school.

TAKEAWAYS:
An authentic environmental literacy network structure for practitioners is essential to creating an ecosystem that supports environmental and sustainability education. Partnerships that reflect the diversity of your community best support holistic inquiry of local environmental issues and phenomena.

SPEAKERS:
Michelle Niedermeier, Shannon Fredebaugh-Siller, Diana Potts, Maryann Molishus, Tamara Peffer, Ellen Schultz

This workshop on carbon capture and storage integrates the engineering design process and socio-scientific modeling to take social factors into consideration while explaining complex socio-scientific issues like geoengineering.

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This session provides teachers with the tools to implement a hands-on climate engineering activity and utilize socio-scientific models in the engineering design process that engage students in real-world, ethical, and culturally relevant climate discussions.

SPEAKERS:
Gayle Buck, Arya Karumanthra

This workshop shares a curriculum that empowers students to become 21st century energy leaders. Participants will engage in a climate action simulation as different stakeholder groups and explore how their decision impact global temperature change, as well as the social impacts of these actions.

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Participants will learn how to use the climate action simulation to engage their students in understanding climate action from an individual and global perspective.

SPEAKERS:
Beth Mercer-Taylor, Cassandra Lydon, Gillian Roehrig

Climate change is here. Come explore ways to teach about this that intersect with issues of justice and provide action for the future. This workshop will support educators in all grades and contexts, including those who can’t even say “climate change”!

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Attendees will leave with strategies for engaging in climate change and climate justice learning appropriate to grade band NGSS standards, climate and energy literacy standards, and for both school and community based learning contexts.

SPEAKERS:
Philip Bell, Deb Morrison, Kelsie Fowler

Implementing recommendations from the NRC Framework and How People Learn can lead to impactful changes in teacher practice and student learning. Experience what 3D sensemaking of a climate change phenomenon looks and feels like and how this led to enhanced learning in a middle school classroom.

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Participants will leave with a student self-assessment sheet and a rubric that can be used with 3D investigations of any phenomenon and an understanding of how to use it effectively in their classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Wil Van der Veen, Denise Magrini

Sponsoring Company: NOAA

Join us for a tour of our education website and discuss how NOAA can meet your needs. We’ll show you how to navigate our educational resources on the ocean, coast, Great Lakes, weather, and climate. Bring your questions and comments on what you’d like from us. This session is for K-16 educators.

SPEAKERS:
Kayla Smith, Bekkah Lampe

Join members of CLEAN and state education representatives from Washington and New Jersey as they share lessons learned, resources, and support for leaders in climate change education for all students in all subjects.

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Participants will leave this session with resources and tools to support themselves as leaders in their local context to create collaborative climate change learning environments across disciplines.

SPEAKERS:
Lori Henrickson, Ross Gary, Sarah Sterling

Prepare to embark on a teaching adventure! Equip yourself with engaging storylines, complete with enriching sidequests that will enhance your current climate change curriculum. Whether you have a couple of days or a couple of months to teach students about climate change, Story Shorts are for you!

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In this session, you will experience an overview of 5 Story Shorts that can be used in the way that best fits your scope and sequence. This resource includes everything you need to “plug and play” quality, vetted climate instruction from activities to assessments.

SPEAKERS:
Melissa Lau

Sponsoring Company: Carolina Biological Supply Co.

Help your students understand complex concepts like climate and climate change through modeling. Participants will do hands on activities that can be used in the classroom to explain climate mechanisms and explore how we know climate is changing.

SPEAKERS:
Crystal Risko

Sponsoring Company: Ward's Science

Ward's Engage Kits transform standard cookbook-style labs into inquiry-based learning, allowing you to guide students through their questions, research methods, and data interpretation. Engage Kits cover a variety of subjects and grade levels and include professional development opportunities.

SPEAKERS:
Amelia Mindich, Michelle Linn, Norman Marshall

Opposition to teaching certain topics in biology is fueled by both organized and ad-hoc social media campaigns. Awareness of the goals and methods of science denial, and leadership strategies to combat them, can empower teachers to truly make a difference in student understanding of science.

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Leadership by teachers, departments, school boards, and state & national organizations must emphasize teaching the nature and process of science & critical thinking. Leadership failure enables scientific illiteracy that threatens personal and public health, sustainability, and prosperity.

SPEAKERS:
Joseph Levine

Learn about FieldScope, a community science platform for visualizing environmental data and supporting an understanding of science and inquiry. Join this session if you are an educator excited to use data in your programs, or want to engage communities in participatory science.

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Leave with the next steps for planning data explorations in existing or future projects, examples of how to learn with data generated by participatory science projects, particularly in middle and high school settings, and also how to host their own project data.

SPEAKERS:
Jamie Noll

How do I help my students be climate literate without changing my whole curriculum? Join WA State’s ClimeTime team as they share K-12 resources, tools, & best practices for designing instruction & assessment while centering local phenomena. Come away with a plan for your climate teaching journey!

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Attendees will take away resources and best practices for anchoring their instruction and assessments around local climate phenomena, including resources from their local community, such as nonprofits and state and local governments.

SPEAKERS:
Caroline Kiehle, Brad Street, Lori Henrickson

The Women In Natural Sciences Program inspires students to pursue STEM careers and pay it forward. One WINS participant researches the ways that the changing food systems have influenced climate change how this understanding can inform climate literacy in Brazil.

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OST Programs like the WINS program are critical in providing opportunities not only for career exploration, but also to develop confidence and self advocacy throughout their journey. For WINS participant Asstan Cisse, she aims to improve the quality of science literacy for others!

SPEAKERS:
Kimberly Godfrey

Understanding how to constructively respond to the diverse emotions youth express and experience as they engage in climate learning is essential work for educators. We will explore approaches for responding to youths’ eco-emotions, and how these can help students make better sense of the world.

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Climate anxiety is a sign of the times. This session gives attendees conceptual ideas as well as practical instructional activities to engage and channel student’s emotions. We will model teaching strategies and how to use students’ eco-emotions for furthering their scientific thinking and action.

SPEAKERS:
Kelsie Fowler, Deb Morrison

Understanding how scientists study the effects of the Greenland Ice Sheet's flow to understand how climate change is affecting our world today and will in the future. Participants will have tested lessons and activities that were used in mini-research projects in the classroom using STEM.

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Participants will learn how to complete a study incorporating Biology with Geology and Chemistry activities while exploring how Climate Science is affecting people around the world.

SPEAKERS:
Judith Lucas-Odom

Our world faces extreme challenges as we feel the impacts of our climate crisis. Learn how to build and facilitate student leadership for climate action programs and campaigns within your school and school community.

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Attendees will learn how to develop student leadership practices and how to teach about our climate crisis and translate their ideas into real-world impacts. How to develop skills like public speaking, outreach to community leaders, and inspiring action from your audience.

SPEAKERS:
JoEllen Schuleman

Agrivoltaics community science provides opportunities for students to contribute to regional knowledge while growing food and generating renewable energy. Students on each campus build, care for, investigate, and share results from two garden beds, one with and one without solar panels.

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Learn how teachers and students in the Sonoran Desert Region are fostering sustainable and just futures by sharing research results comparing garden environmental and plant growth with and without solar panels. Imagine how your students might contribute to regional knowledge on sustainability.

SPEAKERS:
Emmanuel Adeloju, Jamie Rapkiewcz, Michelle Jordan

This student investigation explores the fate of agrochemicals in the environment. We’ll characterize soil, review the nitrogen cycle, and begin a project to track fertilizer ammonia volatilization, all tied to the socio-scientific question, “What is Man’s Impact on Earth?”

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Nitrogen fertilizers are ubiquitous, and their use is increasing; they’re meant to be plant food but may end up in the air instead. How does it volatilize? Where does it go? Why is this a problem? Placed-based environmentally conscious relevant science adaptable for all ages and skill levels.

SPEAKERS:
Lacey Fitts

Data literacy is a vital science skill. Can art help us build it? We share a research-based approach that combines Earth science content, NOAA data, and techniques from art education that center the skills needed to interpret complex visual information, alongside results of actual classroom impact.

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Specific results of how and why teaching practices that combine scientific data, science concepts, and arts-based facilitation techniques enable teachers to create an environment of productive struggle, equitable engagement, and improvement in data literacy skills in science classrooms.

SPEAKERS:
Kathryn Semmens, Jessica Sickler

We will share a learning progression that harnesses a local naturalist’s journal as a historical dataset, integrates it with modern climate and bird migration data, and engages students in a wildflower monitoring program from which they model and predict changing climate’s impact on local phenology.

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Attendees will explore how historical nature journals, modern climate and bird migration data sources, and phenological wildflower walks help students understand complex data and develop deep connections to changing patterns in life cycles, seasons, and climate changes in their local communities.

SPEAKERS:
Jenny Edwards, Clare Gunshenan

Discuss the vital role of introducing children to the world of weather with an on-air meteorologist. Show students how they can analyze and anticipate weather patterns, giving them the tools to better weather our shared world. A perfect way to foster informed citizens on a changing planet!

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Educators learn how to embed meteorology concepts into their curriculum. Using hands-on strategies, teachers can demonstrate the significance of real-world weather phenomena that shape students’ lives. Meteorology education empowers students while enhancing scientific literacy and critical thinking.

SPEAKERS:
Guy Brown

Learn about how strong partnerships, between the National Parks, School-based instructional leaders and educational organizations, resulted in a place-based STEM and environmental justice learning experience for teachers that promoted student voice, agency and action.

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Attendees will leave with knowledge of the impact of strong partnerships on place-based STEM learning experiences, National Park collaborative resources, and techniques for promoting authentic STEM problem identification and solving through student action as related to environmental justice.

SPEAKERS:
Kendra Heffelbower

Explore the impact of the Down to Earth program, which connects ISS research to local environmental challenges. We'll present evaluation data and outcomes from implementing this innovative STEM initiative that bridges space science with community-based problem-solving for middle school students.

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Attendees will gain insights into the effectiveness of a project-based learning program that leverages space science to engage students in local environmental issues, including key strategies for implementation, assessment methods, and free STEM activities for formal and informal settings.

SPEAKERS:
Sandra Roberts

How can science learning experiences help students develop ecological caring approaches to the living world? Come explore educational approaches to multispecies justice with us! Expanding how students connect to and care for the living world around them is vital at this time of climate crisis.

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People’s relationships to nature are culturally and historically rooted and are embedded in approaches to science teaching and learning. Science can be used to guide ecological caring responses and support the thriving of people and ecosystems.

SPEAKERS:
Philip Bell, Nancy Price, Kelsie Fowler

This presentation session will explore the pathways to increase climate literacy and support educators with integrating climate education topics into their classroom. Digging deeper, we will look at how nonfiction books are a bridge to strengthen literacy skills and teach climate change.

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Nonfiction books are useful tools that can teach literacy skills through climate topics that allow students to develop agency, a sense of hope, and mitigate climate change through finding climate solutions.

SPEAKERS:
Rochelle Strauss, Dennis Nolasco

Explore science & sustainability resources to inspire students' real-world problem solving! Action-Oriented Pedagogies inspire them to imagine and build a safer, more resilient, and sustainable world. Discover AOP possibilities with Xplorlabs, a free tool with labs, simulations & design challenges.

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Participants will discover new ways to support scientific practices to develop and use models, analyze and interpret data, and leverage Action-Oriented Pedagogies to construct explanations and design solutions to safety and sustainability challenges.

SPEAKERS:
Sarah Suloff, Andrea Weinberg, Emmanuel Adeloju, Michelle Jordan, Jasmine Coleman

Participants will engage in authentic research on plants and animals and how they react to urban stress factors caused by Climate change and human influences. They will be able to use these research-based activities immediately.

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Participants will learn to incorporate real-world research into their classroom by using techniques that analyze the effects on urban plants and animals under human-induced conditions.

SPEAKERS:
Judith Lucas-Odom