Exploring Climate Science with Virtual Reality
Exploring Climate Science With Virtual Reality Follow-up #1: Planning for Phenomena, Arguing From Evidence
Follow-up session #1 engages teachers in continuing development of their own climate science related, place based, relevant phenomena. They learn one type of arguing from evidence, argument driven inquiry, that can serve as a Formative Classroom Task. They meet with climate scientists to understand how to prepare and develop Oculus Go devices for their own and their students' use in classrooms.
Working with Virtual Reality Scientists and Engineers, teachers were introduced to the use of virtual reality devices, Rift and Oculus Go. They set up Oculus Go devices for use in their classrooms and practiced how to navigate the virtual reality landscape. For a beta version of the Clime Time Climate Science Simulation from PNNL and ESD 123 e-mail stem.education@pnnl.gov . You will need to provide the e-mail with which you registered your Oculus go device. The final version will but available for free on the Oculus Go Store by November 2019.
Review of Norms of Collaboration
Teachers review briefly the Norms of Collaboration and Congenial versus Collegial Discourse in preparation in working with their teams.
Thinking Collaborative Norms of Collaboration
Review of Phenomena
Teachers review learning about academically productive phenomena and continue to develop their own local and relevant phenomena related to climate science learning and using the heuristic .
Climate Science Immersion Arguing From Evidence
This section begins with a card sort of various statements about evidence of global warming. Teachers work in pairs or trios to sort the card and give reasons for their sorting decisions. They then use the Yale Climate Opinion Map 2018 to see what people think regionally, statewide and nationally about climate change. They read an article about teaching the potentially controversial subject of climate change.
The crux of the section is based on the Weather and Climate Application Lab 18- Carbon Dioxide Levels in the Atmosphere: How Has the Concentration of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Changed Over Time? from Argument Driven Inquiry in Earth and Space Science from Argument Driven Inquiry for Earth and Space Science. This resource should be acquired from National Science Teachers' Association NSTA Press. Teachers experience an abbreviated version of this lab using the links to data found in the resource. They construct their arguments based on evidence from data and share with each other.
Yale Climate Opinions Map 2018
Climate Science Confidence by Carolyn Crist, District Administration
