CLEAN Teleconference Call April 16, 2019
Lisa Gardiner: Climate is Elementary: Climate Postcards
Abstract: This presentation will profile Climate Postcards, a classroom activity designed to help elementary students learn about regional climates. In this activity, students build their graph reading, literacy, and geography skills as they learn about climate zones.
Bio: Lisa S. Gardiner, PhD MFA, leads educational resource development at the UCAR Center for Science Education, developing K-12 curriculum and exhibit and website content to help people of all ages learn about the science of our planet. Gardiner is the author of Tales from an Uncertain World: What Other Assorted Disasters Can Teach Us About Climate Change (Iowa Press, 2018) and cocreator of Elementary GLOBE. Before moving into science education in 2001, Gardiner researched the ecology of fossil coral reefs. She holds a PhD in geology from the University of Georgia, a bachelor's degree in geology and marine science from Smith College, and an MFA in narrative nonfiction writing from Goucher College.
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