Taking Action with Climate Change Education

Goals and Objectives of this Course:

• Use prompts about teaching climate change to students to describe assumptions and insights of practitioners, researchers and self, including how the information relates to professional education practice and growth.
• Learn foundational information about climate change and its impact on the Earth, humanity, and students.
• Explore resources that can be used to effectively educate students about climate change.
• Review research that counters the controversy about climate change and its impact.
• Design an initiative, presentation, or unit of study about climate change.
• Investigate concepts of student advocacy and activism that teach students ways to take action to combat climate change.
• Explore how climate change has a greater impact on people in poverty and people of color.