The aim of the NASA-funded project "Collaborative Development of a Climate Change Curriculum for Classrooms in the Intermountain West" is to collaboratively develop and implement climate change curricula with local educators. By doing so we can help bring students and the general public, including Native peoples of this region, up to speed with the science and impacts of climate change.
Project Themes
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Focus: Secondary Teachers
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Context: Intermountain West climate
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Emphasis: Native American students
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Collaboration is key to the success of the ICE-Net team, consisting of
UI climate scientists, UI educators, and high school teachers across the state of Idaho. The map below shows the locations of the 8 participating schools in the first year of the project.
In 2011 ICE-Net held two multi-day workshops at the UI McCall Outdoor Science School campus in McCall, Idaho. The first workshop developed climate science knowledge and place-based pedagogies, and the second workshop focused on culturally-congruent classroom instruction and future planning. Follow-up meetings are held remotely through the Idaho Education Network.
In 2012 the ICE-Net team will begin making site visits to partner schools in order to assist teachers in conducting climate change activities, collect data and observations, and provide support for the implementation of the Adventure Learning (AL) framework, an online system that will connect project efforts to schools as well as schools to each other. In addition, another summer workshop will train participating teachers in the use and analysis of NASA data sets and products.
Read about the latest project updates with the ICE-Net newsletter:
If you are an Idaho teacher interested in learning more about this project, please contact
Anne Kern.