Workshops and Short Courses |
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Workshops and Short Courses |
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The Earth’s climate is changing, and we are responsible.
It is important to understand the changes—how our activities cause them, and the responsibility each of us has to consider ways we might act to help lessen the disruption. This understanding can start with your students, in your classroom. Climate disruption and basic climate science are complicated but based on fundamental concepts from our more familiar sciences. You can use climate science concepts as a context for the topics already in your courses. You can use the concepts in your curriculum as a context for climate science topics. The examples chosen to illustrate this approach for this on-line workshop include the classroom topics of density, buoyancy, acid-base chemistry, and precipitation, partnered with climate concepts of global warming, sea level rise, ocean acidification, and increasing anthropogenic atmospheric carbon dioxide. These examples are developed by analysis of demonstrations adapted from hands-on activities included in the Climate Science Workbook available at the www.scifun.org website. The workshop will also explore how incorporating climate science in your classroom extends to community effects, and to your vital role as an exemplar empowered by understanding. Register for this course! |