Teaching climate change fostering understanding, resilience, and a commitment to justice
"Teaching Climate Change lays out a comprehensive, NGSS-aligned approach to climate change education that builds in-depth knowledge of the subject, empowers students, and promotes a social justice mindset. In this fortifying and inspiring work, Mark Windschitl guides classroom teachers and education...
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard Education Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. The leap
- Chapter 2. A vision for climate change teaching
- Chapter 3. A primer on core climate change ideas. 3.1. The greenhouse effect : where it all starts ; 3.2. Carbon cycling : where it stays and where it's going ; 3.3. No place is too remote : our oceans and cryosphere ; 3.4. Ecosystems and why we care about biodiversity ; 3.5. Weather extremes and the human niche ; 3.6. Code
- Chapter 4. Solutions : helping students envision sustainability and resilience
- Chapter 5. Dealing with disinformation and skepticism
- Chapter 6. It matters how you frame the story
- Chapter 7. How do we know that happened? Reconstructing the past to understand the present
- Chapter 8. Our possible future(s) : data visualizations and climate models as sensemaking tools
- Chapter 9. Helping students show what they know : building models and explanations
- Chapter 10. Activism and self-care for the long haul
- Appendix A. Unit trajectories in a third- and a ninth-grade classroom
- Appendix B. Climate-specific engineering standards.
