Climate Science Integration Planning Guide
Grade 12 Sample_Climate Science Cross Curricular Planning Guide
Grade 7 Example - Cross Curricular Climate Planning Guide
Teacher Guidance_Climate Science Integration Planning Guide
Climate Science Integration Planning Tools
Overview
In their continued support of climate science education, the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) created these resources to support K-12 teachers of all content areas integrate climate science and climate change into their instruction.
Overview
These materials from the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) support all content area teachers in integrating climate science and centering their instruction around the Guiding Principle for Informed Climate Decisions found in Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science:
“Humans can take actions to reduce climate change and its impacts.”
Within this Guiding Principle, there are seven fundamental concepts. These guides provide support for teachers to choose to focus on a single concept, multiple concepts, or a specific section or sections based on the grade level, cultures, and school community in which they teach.
What you'll find
Planning for Climate Integration in All Content Areas (Individual Educators)
- Climate Science Planning Guide
- Teacher Guidance for Climate Science Planning Guide
Planning for Cross-Curricular Climate Integration (Team/PLC/Grade-level)
- Cross-Curricular Planning Guide - Grade 7 Sample
- Cross-Curricular Planning Guide - Grade 12 Sample
Additional Resources
U.S. Global Change Research Program. (2009). Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Guiding Principle for Informed Climate Decisions | CLEAN project – Science Education Resource Center
Climate.gov | U.S. Government
Planning for Climate Integration in All Content Areas
These planning guides are meant for individual teachers. For support in planning with a team of teachers, please see the next section.
The planning guide and accompanying teacher guidance document in this section provide individual teachers in any content area with support to plan their classroom instruction through the lens of climate literacy.
The Climate Science Integration Planning Guide is designed for teachers to fill out as they are planning their classroom instruction. The companion Teacher Guidance for Climate Science Integration is designed to support teachers in working through the Planning Guide.
Planning for Cross-Curricular Climate Integration
This planning guide is designed for use by multiple teachers (e.g. PLCs, grade levels, teams, etc.) to plan their instruction through the lens of climate literacy. This guide mirrors the individual teacher planning guide and can be used at the same time to support coherence.
Sample Guides
The example guides are meant to show an example of how the guide could be used to plan instruction. There are suggestions for planning and links to OER materials when available.
Grade 7
This example shows how teachers in Science, ELA, Math, Social Studies, The Arts, Computer Science, and World Languages could anchor their instruction around climate science, specifically wildfires and floods.
Grade 12
This example shows how science, ELA, and Social Studies teachers could anchor their learning specifically around how to mitigate the effects of climate change. This example links to the Since Time Immemorial Contemporary World Problems-12th Grade materials and extends into diving into local tribal climate resiliency plans.
License and Attribution
Attribution
Cover photo: "Quinault River Park" Image by Teri Comroe from Pixabay
License
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