Climate Literacy & Energy Awareness Network Office Hours

Have a question about using CLEAN in your classroom or curriculum? Drop by this open-question forum to get 1-on-1 help using the wide-range of CLEAN climate and energy educational resources and other supporting materials on the CLEAN portal.

Joint Mathematics Meeting

Poster presentation at the Joint Mathematics Meeting annual conference about the results from the UTMOST project--the education research study and the online textbook creation and enhancement work using MathBook XML in collaboration with the American Institute of Mathematics’ Open Textbook Initiative.

Trout Bowl

The Trout Bowl is the Colorado regional competition for the National Ocean Sciences Bowl. This academic competition will have 20 teams from Colorado and Texas, and 40-50 volunteers from CIRES, CU, NOAA, and the public at large. 

CLEAN Webinar 1: Intro to CLEAN

Take a guided tour of the CLEAN portal. Learn about the CLEAN collection of over 700 climate and energy educational resources that include data-based activities, demonstrations and experiments, videos, and visualizations. Plus, learn about the range of supporting materials on the CLEAN website that help you accurately teach about climate and energy topics.

AERA (American Educational Research Association)

Kelsey Tayne presenting on April 13:

Tayne, K., Littrell-Baez, M., Leckey, E. & Gold, A.U. (2018, April) Towards More Meaningful

Climate Change Education: Investigating the Role of Climate Change Solutions. Paper presented at roundtable at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting in New York, New York

 

Megan Littrell-Baez presenting on April 16:

CLEAN Webinar 2: Teaching About Climate and Energy

Learn how to use the Teaching About Climate and Energy web guides to help build an excellent foundation for teaching and learning about climate and energy concepts. Also, see how these teaching guides are integrated with the CLEAN collection of over 700 climate and energy resources on the CLEAN website.

NOSB Finals

The NOSB is an academic competition and program that addresses a national gap in environmental and earth sciences in public education by introducing high school students to and engaging them in ocean science, preparing them for ocean science-related and other STEM careers, and helping them become knowledgeable citizens and environmental stewards.

 

CLEAN Webinar 3: How to Plan Climate and Energy Units

Want to learn how to build your own climate and energy units using three-dimensional design and the over 700 educational resources in the online CLEAN collection? Join in for an introduction to the CLEAN Get Started Guide, teacher planning materials, and downloadable classroom unit exemplars to support your teaching about climate and energy.

Director Anne Gold Presents at the Broader Impacts Summit 2018

CIRES Education and Outreach Director Anne Gold will be presenting at the Broader Impacts Summit on creative evaluation and a session on storytelling in science!

CLEAN Webinar 4: CLEAN, NGSS, and 3-D Learning for Climate and Energy Education

Get insight on how the CLEAN collection of over 700 educational resources are aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and how CLEAN supports 3-dimensional learning. Learn how to search the CLEAN collection by NGSS climate and energy topics and at-a-glance standards tables to effectively teach about climate and energy in your classroom.

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