Workshop Session II
Workshop Session II 12:00 – 12:45
Workshops have a limit of 30 participants per workshop. *For workshops #8 and #9 only, the limit is 40. Educators are encouraged to attend any and all workshops. An “E” signifies a workshop specifically for educators.
1. Alternative Fuels
Learn about a not-for-profit, public/private partnership dedicated to educating the general public about the economic and environmental benefits of increased biofuel production and use. Find out how to promote renewable fuels as a viable, near-term strategy to address petroleum dependence and global climate change.
2. The Food We Eat & Climate Change
Modern methods of growing, packaging, and transporting food have a tremendous negative impact on the environment. However, you can choose to eat in a way that saves fuel, nurtures the environment, supports your local community, and reduces your carbon footprint. Come find out why it matters what you eat!
3. Activism: Climate Change Legislation
Making a difference in your local community! Learn about how to work with your community to promote green policy and environmental awareness. This session includes a short video on Boston's Step it Up event. Community activism can take many shapes and forms. Come and explore ways to create change on both a personal and community level.
4. Green Architecture, Green Design
Ideal for individuals interested in green design, green building, or a general understanding of the sustainable design movement, led by the President of Boston Architectural College, Ted Landsmark.
5. Wind Power & Cape Wind
Learn from Clean Power Now members what wind energy, and the Cape Wind proposal in particular has to offer.
6. How to Start Your Own Youth CAN Group
Interested in starting a climate action group at your school or youth organization? Meet with Youth CAN members to get useful tools for getting started.
7. Modeling Earth & Climate System Dynamics
To understand how the climate system works, participants become “elements” in a complex system, modeling natural system processes, as well as responses to external perturbations. Student scientists perform “experiments” to discover the rules that govern this “natural system.”
8. Filming a Climate Change PSA – Continued from Session I
9. The Story of Stuff & The Trashion Show * Continued from Session I
10. 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.
11. 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
12. 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.
13. 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.
