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CIRES Education and Outreach is partnering with the Mountain Studies Institute for a one-day teacher professional development workshop for secondary science teachers to learn about hazards affecting Coloradoans; floods, wildfires, extreme heat and drought. Teachers will learn about the latest science and how to implement place-based curriculum to teach in their classroom, including a scenario based role play game for the classroom. Learn more and sign up here: https://resilientswpd.eventbrite.com

Middle and High school students learn about climate effects on their communities in Puerto Rico through filmmaking. Student interview scientists, business owners and other community members to explore the intersection of climate and community.

Katie Boyd from CLEAN will attend this conference and present about CLEAN. She will have a poster presentation as well as a spot in a share-a-thon to help spread the word about using CLEAN to teach about climate and energy topics.

Professional development for HEARTforce team

Read more about the workshop: https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2019

High school students in the Upward Bound Math Science program at Trinidad State Junior College from southern Colorado and New Mexico will visit CU to learn about climate change effects through creating their own films.

Resilience theme/HEARTforce

During this Idaho-based regional workshop about climate education, Katie Boyd will present about CLEAN. She will demonstrate to teachers how they can use the CLEAN Collection and Teaching Guidance pages to help bring climate and energy topics into their classrooms.

Students from Citrus College in California are visiting Boulder to explore the science of wildfires. They will be working with CIRES scientists and staff to examine and compare California’s and Colorado’s wildfires.

12 Scientists and Educators will meet to discuss and review resources that have been established as possible additions to the CLEAN Collection. They will determine which of these resources are of high enough quality to be cataloged into the resource database.

The STEM Learning and Research Center (STELAR) at the National Science Foundation is putting on their annual ITEST Principle Investigator and Evaluator Summit on June 13-14th in Alexandria, VA. The theme of the event is “Living, Learning, and Working in the Digital Age.”