by Keith Carlson | Jun 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
Community Building students’ background knowledge about climate change, climate justice, and climate solutions, creates opportunities for student agency. Their skills as civic actors impact people of all ages throughout their communities to get involved...
by Keith Carlson | Jun 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
Support sensemaking about climate science Human activities have unequivocally warmed our world at an unprecedented rate. We are already experiencing the effects of climate change (IPCC, 2021). Yet, only about one in five Americans (22%) understands that there...
by Keith Carlson | Jun 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
Engage in inquiry and evidence-driven learning Students connect with local climate phenomena and data in order to determine needed actions in their community. Example: After a prolonged drought in Boulder County, Colorado, a wildfire destroyed 1,000 homes. ...
by Keith Carlson | Jun 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
Create opportunities to learn outside with communities beyond the classroom Example: Kindergarteners learned about the superpowers of trees to fight climate change with their ability to take CO2 out of the air and turn it into oxygen through photosynthesis. ...
by Keith Carlson | Jun 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
Expand ways of knowing and relating to the world The Climate Education & Community Action Framework looks to indigenous knowledge systems and practices that have long emphasized reciprocal relationships between humans and ecosystems. This...
