Description
- Approaches issues and challenges of teaching and learning about climate change from a science-based perspective
- Designed to help educators and students understand the causes and implications of global warming in order to better prepare for a changing climate and to participate in democratic decision making regarding a collective future
- Argues the significance of students understanding why the Earth’s climate is changing in addition to the socio-cultural implications of the changes
- Draws from the perspectives of leading and international scholars in the field
- Covers philosophical and conceptual frameworks for guiding climate change education and research; research on teaching and learning; and methods of professional development and classroom practice
Table of Contents
Preface
Section I. Theoretical, philosophical, and conceptual frameworks for climate change education and research
1. Teaching climate science as history
Spencer Weart
2. The role of history and nature of science in climate change teaching and learning
Michael P. Clough and Benjamin C. Herman
3. System thinking and teaching in the context of climate system and climate change
Anita Roychoudhury, Daniel P. Shepardson, and Andrew S. Hirsch
4. Attending to emotional expressions about climate change: A framework for teaching and learning
Elizabeth Hufnagel
5. Using a socioscientific issues framework for climate change education: An ecojustice approach Dana L. Zeidler and Mark Newton
Section II. Research on teaching and learning about global warming and climate change
6. Students’ conception of a climate system: Implications for teaching and learning
Daniel P. Shepardson, Anita Roychoudhury, Andrew S. Hirsch, and Sara Top
7. Using conceptual and physical models to develop students’ mental models of the greenhouse effect
Daniel P. Shepardson, Anita Roychoudhury, and Andrew S. Hirsch
8. Unpacking the climate change performance expectations in the Next Generation Science Standards
Wendy R. Johnson and Charles W. Anderson
9. Fundamental climate literacy and the promise of the NGSS
KC Busch and Diego Román
10. Supporting the inclusion of climate change in U.S. science education curricula by use of learning progressions
J. Randy McGinnis, Wayne Breslyn, Chris McDonald, and Emily Hestness
11. Climate change as an issue for socio-scientific issues teaching and learning
Amanda Peel, Troy D. Sadler, Andrew T. Kinslow, Laura Zangori, and Patricia Friedrichsen
12. "This idea they have is not really to me, like, true:" How seventh grade students make meaning of scientific arguments about the impact of global warming on tornadoes and hurricanes Soyoung Choi and Dan Shepardson
Section III. Approaches to professional development and classroom practice
13. Using NGSS crosscutting concepts as a tool for climate change and citizenship education
Hannah K. Miller and Charles W. Anderson
14. The Earth’s energy budget
Andrew S. Hirsch
15. Teaching informed by conceptual difficulties with understanding the greenhouse effect
Nicole Strickhouser, Anita Roychoudhury, Andrew S. Hirsch, and Jignesh V. Mehta
16. Developing and implementing a climate science toolkit for informal and formal educators Olivia Kellner
17. Adaptation of the Dynamics of Climate toolkit for informal and formal educators in the local community
Olivia Kellner, Brandy Yost, and Leslie Webb
18. Doubt and denial as challenges to, and in, teaching climate change
Minda Berbeco, Glenn Branch, & Kate Heffernan
About the Authors
