Workshop Session I
Workshop Session I 11:00 - 11:45
Workshops have a limit of 30 participants per workshop. *For workshops #7 & #8 only, the limit is 40. Educators are encouraged to attend any and all workshops. An “E” signifies a workshop specifically for educators.
1. Energy Programs
This session will address the pros and cons of new and existing sources of energy, (i.e. solar, wind, clean coal, etc.) as well as energy conservation.
2. Sustainable Living
Are you part of the problem or part of the solution? Find out in this look at your everyday life. From the building you live in, to the food you eat, and the daily activities you undertake, we’ll explore the connections between the way we live and global warming.
3. Think Outside the Bottle
Bottled water corporations have portrayed bottled water as healthy when in reality it threatens our health and our ecosystems, costs thousands of times what tap water costs, and undermines local democratic control over a common resource. Come find out what you should know and how to launch a campaign at your school!
4. Health Effects of Climate Change
Climate Change and Public Health: Come learn with the Boston Public Health Commission about the health impacts that climate change will have on all of us and what you can do to reduce the problem and prepare for changes.
5. Climate Change Effects on Oceans
Meet with staff from the New England Aquarium to explore the impacts that climate change is having on the world’s oceans. Learn what you should know about it!
6. The Science of Climate Change
Interested in the actual science of global warming? Get an inside view as to how global warming really works, and learn about the science behind some of the proposed solutions. Come learn how to speak knowledgably about global warming, and ground your arguments in science!
7. Filming a Climate Change PSA *Both Sessions Required
Five Groups of eight students each, along with a member of a local improv troupe, will be given a video camera, a prop, and an hour and a half to film a 2-minute public service announcement to spread the message about global warming.
8. The Story of Stuff & The Trashion Show *Both Sessions Required
Watch a short film about problems connected to our consumerism, then work with an artist to create trashion designs that will help to raise awareness about the issues involved. Display your creations on the “Street” in Stata Center at MIT!
9. E -Climate Change Filmmaking in the Classroom For Educators
You want to talk about Climate Change in your school, but are constrained by so many existing curriculum demands: Learn how the Foresight Project’s innovative program engages students and reaches out to educate the community at large. Find out how a creative writing and video contest for high-school students on the subject of climate science and clean technology can be adopted by teachers as a project in any almost any subject area across the curriculum.
10. E –National Wildlife Federation’s Climate Literacy for Educators
Join Liz Soper (NWF),and learn about National Wildlife Federation*s new comprehensive program that helps students, parents and educators understand the science of global climate change as well as steps they can take in their daily lives to reduce and reverse global warming. As part of this session, you will explore the Climate Classroom website, resources and *An Inconvenient Truth in the Classroom,* a high school curriculum that provide teachers with guidelines for teaching about global warming, adaptable versions to tailor to their needs and conservation action projects to engage kids in active learning. Each educator will receive a copy of the AIT curriculum and a copy of An Inconvenient Truth. Climate Classroom* (www.climateclassroom.org
11. E –DOE Climate Change Curriculum
Let’s teach about climate change! We will sort through myths and misconceptions, try out activities, work with climate data, and discuss how you can keep current with research about this important issue. Teachers will receive a CD of resources for teaching about climate change.
12. E - The Gore Slide Show
Ileana Jones, The Climate Project, is a former science teacher at the Winsor School, and member of Al Gore's Climate Project. She will give a slide/talk about climate change and practical solutions. There will be time for discussion.
