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IslandWood Professional Development Course: Community-Centered Climate Change for 6-8th Grade Educators
Overview
During this course, participants will learn how to center investigations of local scientific phenomena in a Next Generation Science Standards storyline. Course educators will offer instructional strategies and climate and community data to help teachers connect to the interests and identities of students and support understanding of the impacts of climate change. In collaboration with fellow teachers, participants will imagine possibilities for this kind of teaching and learning in their own classrooms through brainstorming possible phenomenon-based storylines local to their own students.
During this professional development course, participants will learn how to center investigations of local scientific phenomena in a Next Generation Science Standards storyline. Course educators will offer instructional strategies and climate and community data to help teachers connect to the interests and identities of students and support understanding of the impacts of climate change. In collaboration with fellow teachers, participants will imagine possibilities for this kind of teaching and learning in their own classrooms through brainstorming possible phenomenon-based storylines local to their own students.
By the end of this course, participants will:
- Understand how local phenomena intersect with the Next Generation Science Standards, climate change, ecosystems, and people in community
- Experience how community-based instructional strategies can build scientific understandings
- Work with other participants to develop and implement ideas for incorporating local phenomena into their classrooms
- Apply strategies to increase student understanding of climate change and capacity to think about climate change solutions
- Reflect on how local, community-based science instruction is integral to the pursuit of climate and education justice