Geological Society of America

T246 Climate Literacy in Formal and Informal Education, for Policy Makers and the Public, and Measures of Impact (Posters)

Tuesday, 27 September 2016
9:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Exhibit Hall E/F

USING THE CLEAN COLLECTION TO BUILD NGSS ALIGNED EARTH SYSTEM INVESTIGATIONS

Paper number: T246-1
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 9:00 AM – 6:30 PM

Authors

Tamara Shapiro Ledley
TERC, Cambridge, MA
Anne Gold Presenting Author
University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, Boulder, CO
Jeff Lockwood
TERC, Cambridge, MA
Betsy Youngman
TERC, Cambridge, MA
Cheryl Manning
Evergreen High School, Evergreen, CO
Missy Holzer
Rutgers University and Chatham High School, New Brunswick, NJ
Marian Grogan
TERC, Cambridge, MA
Frank Niepold
Silver Spring
Susan Sullivan
Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Abstract

The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) Collection of reviewed educational climate and energy science resources for grades 6-16 has now been aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The CLEAN resources are individually valuable for teachers to supplement their existing curriculum. However, resources can also be organized into NGSS-aligned Earth System Investigations (ESIs) that teachers can use to integrate climate and Earth science into their classes. In this presentation we will describe how to search the CLEAN Collection with an NGSS lens, and the Earth System Investigation framework built from the NGSS Practices. We will also showcase two ESIs, which use that framework, and model the three-dimensional learning advocated for in the NGSS.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 7

doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-284263

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