Braiding your River: CIRES Career Development Series

Collaborative, Interdisciplinary, Team Science with John Crockett (Associate VP of Research Advancement, San Diego State University, The Center for Research, Excellence and Diversity in Team Science (CREDITS) co-PI) from 12pm to 1pm. 

While workshops will be from 12-1 pm, we invite you to join a virtual “coffee and cookies”  informal networking and conversation at 11.30 am. 

Braiding your River: CIRES Career Development Series

Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers with Dana Stamo (STEM Routes) and Rebecca Batchelor (CIRES E&O, GEO-REU Network) from 12pm to 1pm. 

While workshops will be from 12-1 pm, we invite you to join a virtual “coffee and cookies”  informal networking and conversation at 11.30 am. 

Summer Institute for Climate Change Education: A Regrounding in Truth

This July, educators from across the nation are coming together virtually to gain new skills for teaching climate change. We’d love to have you join us.  

Resilient Colorado : Natural Hazards Education for the Science Classroom (Virtual)

In this 2-credit virtual course, we invite rural Colorado secondary earth and environmental science teachers to learn a new place-based, NGSS aligned science curriculum on natural hazards. The curricular unit includes a lesson on natural hazards (wildfire, flood or drought) that uses Colorado datasets, a scenario-based role-play game, and lessons for students to develop resilience strategies for their hometown to present at a community expo. Instructional strategies include project-based learning, gamification, design thinking, and community engaged learning.

Resilient Colorado : Natural Hazards Education for the Science Classroom (In-person)

In this in-person 2-credit course, we invite rural Colorado secondary earth and environmental science teachers to learn a new place-based, NGSS aligned science curriculum on natural hazards. The curricular unit includes a lesson on natural hazards (wildfire, flood or drought) that uses current Colorado case studies and local datasets, a scenario-based role-play game, and lessons for students to develop resilience strategies for their hometown to present at a community expo.

Teaching Climate Change in a Community That Does Not Want to Hear it” presented by Jeffrey Yuhas

This webinar focuses on challenges and strategies around teaching climate change in a community that doesn’t want to listen and the lessons one teacher has learned over the past decade that have helped him “move the needle”. Presented by Jeffrey Yuhas, a middle and high school teacher who has taught in multiple schools, including one that is home to many environmentalist families and one that is home of many climate change denier families.

“Using Understanding Global Change to Make Earth System Connections about Local Phenomena: The Return of the River Otters” presented by Jessica Bean and focused on resources for Elementary Teachers

The Understanding Global Change (UGC) Project from the UC Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology, has created a suite of online and interactive resources to support teaching and learning about climate change and Earth systems. In this workshop, teachers will learn how to use these resources to make student thinking visible and investigate the return of the North American River Otters to the San Francisco Bay Area. Teachers will also be connected with the new CLEAN Elementary Climate Teaching Portal where they can find more resources for teaching about climate change.

NASA STEM Webinar: The Future of Forests

Join University of Colorado Boulder curriculum developer and GLOBE partner Jon Griffith as he guides participants through “The Future of Forests”, a 10-lesson MS/HS curriculum connected to NGSS life science standards that uses NASA resources to explore patterns of post-fire recovery (or lack thereof) across the west.

Vocabulary of Hazards Lesson Materials
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University of Colorado Boulder
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CEEE Office Hours

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