Transcript Teaching Resources for Water and Climate

Teaching Resources for Water
and Climate
SUSAN SULLIVAN, ANNE GOLD, JENNIFER
TAYLOR
CIRES EDUCATION AND OUTREACH GROUP,
CU BOULDER
CIRES.COLORADO.EDU
Boulder Climate Change Workshop
2015
Introductions
About CIRES
NOAA Cooperative
Institute
We’re biggish
We do alot
Some of our centers
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CIRES Outreach: Susan Sullivan,
Anne Gold, Susan Lynds, Amanda
Morton, David Oonk, George
Sharman, Lesley Smith, Jennifer
Taylor
and students
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Western Water
Assessment
National Snow and Ice
Data Center
Center for Science and
Technology Policy
Why Water?
 How do you teach about water now?
 Why connect water to climate?
 People
experience climate change through water
 People can engage with a tangible, local impact
 Water can make climate, sustainability, and
natural hazards performance expectations
relevant
 Great entry point for resiliency planning
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Complexities
 Flood and drought, sea level rise and storm surge
 Soil moisture, evapotranspiration-food, ecosystems
 Industry, economies, environmental and human
needs
 Legal complexities
 Scale-dependent
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NGSS: Earth and Human Activity
Synthesis
Quantitative
Grade level
High School
Middle School
Foundations
Grade 5
Grade 4
Natural
Resources
Human Impacts
Global Climate
Change
HS-ESS3-2
HS-ESS3-3 Relate resources, pop,
Energy
biodiversity
HS-ESS3-1 Env influences human HS-ESS3-4
Reduce impact
MS-ESS3-4
MS-ESS3-1
MS-ESS3-2
Population &
Distribution
Forecast hazards consumption
resources
MS-ESS3-3
Monitor and
minimize
5-ESS3-3 Protect
environment
HS-ESS3-6 Earth
systems
HS-ESS3-5
Forecast CC
MS -ESS3-5
Global temps
4-ESS3-1 Energy
4-ESS3-2 Reduce
impact
3-ESS3-2 Weather
K-ESS3-1 Habitat
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Group, CU Boulder
KESS3-2
Weather & Outreach
KESS3-3 Impact
Grade 3
K-2
Natural Hazards
Needs
 What do you need to teach about climate and water
in your classroom?
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Professional development
Teaching resources
Relevant information
Support
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Professional Development
WHAT DO YOU KNOW
FOR SURE?
Professional Development
 Massively Open Online Courses? Anyone?
 Water in the Western United States (Coursera)
 Physical, legal, policy considerations, Colorado River Basin
 Engagement
 Moving to On-Demand Format
Thanks for everything! I have learned a lot
of new things and the course has given me
some great ideas for direction for my high
school Environmental Science students. I
hope you this course is offered in the future
for other students...I would definitely
recommend it! Cheers!
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Western Water Example Videos
A Growing Controversy:
Hydraulic Fracturing and
Water Supplies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIzx
2iRtrXE
Understanding Water Quality
Impacts: Boulder Creek Case
Study
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0js
yq760-Kc
Consider before you sign up….
Pros
Cons
 Free, virtual
 Lack of individualized
 On your own time
 Certificate
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 Credit for some
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 From top universities
 Diverse students
 Community may form
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instructor attention
Peer-grading glitches
Technical, time
requirements
Difficulty forming
relationships
Hands on more rare
Magnificent MOOCs from Coursera
Also check
Udacity, EdX
and Canvas
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More Professional Development
 CIRES Power of
Water workshops
 Climate.gov
“Teaching
Climate”
 CLEAN Network
 Local universities
and science
centers
The Great Flood of 2013: Ecosystem Impacts
and Stream Recovery
River Dynamics and Vegetation in the Arid
West
July 28 and August 10
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Teaching Resources
WHAT’S OUT THERE TO
USE?
The CLEAN Collection (cleanet.org)
Find CLEAN at Cleanet.org
Click to search the CLEAN Educational
Resources Collection
Type in a climate science concept (e.g. water)
Refine search results
 Resource Type 
 Climate Topics 
 Grade Level 
 Climate Literacy Principles,
etc. 
 Next Generation Science
Standards in progress
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Click on “CLEAN” in left sidebar to return to
homepage
http://cleanet.org
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http://cleanet.org
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http://cleanet.org
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Integrate http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/index.html
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Find Relevant information
WHAT IS RELEVANT?
Remember scale-dependence?
From
National
Climate
Assessment
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State and local assessments
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Google is your friend
 National Climate Assessment:
http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/
 Western Water Assessments:
http://wwa.colorado.edu/publications/reports/
 Climate.gov data: https://www.climate.gov/mapsdata
 NIDIS: http://www.drought.gov/drought/
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Find Support
WHO HAS YOUR BACK?
Join the CLEAN Network-get the digest
Support
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Click on “CLEAN” in left sidebar to return to
homepage
Thank you!
Questions & to join CIRES listserv:
[email protected]
http://cires.colorado.edu/education-outreach/
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Webinars and Online course
 Webinar series
 Extreme Weather: Mitigation and
Resiliency
 Attribution of Extreme Weather
Events
 Water in the West: Too much or too
little?
 The Colorado River Basin
 http://learnmoreaboutclimate.color
ado.edu/initiatives/webinars
 Upcoming mini-MOOC
 Canvas.net
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