The CLEAN Educator Newsflash: Sharing Climate & Energy Resources
The CLEAN Educator Newsflash is a topical newsletter that links selected resources from the CLEAN collection with current climate and energy events in the news. This series features a variety of top-rated CLEAN resources—from activities, labs, and demonstrations to data sets, visualizations and videos—to support educators in connecting climate and energy to our everyday lives.
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August 2024 Back-to-School
Kick off the new school year with a few of our most popular CLEAN resources! This edition features videos and activities that educators utilize frequently, like our Climate Literacy Quiz, Energy Literacy Quiz, the "Stink Test" framework, a module that teaches students about the hydrologic cycle and how we track water resources, and a wind map visualization that can be used alongside lessons about weather, renewable energy, and much more.
Climate Change and Agriculture
Learn about the relationship between climate change and agriculture! In this issue, we share a CLEAN Food and Climate Change Curriculum, an activity where high schoolers and college students role play La Vía Campesina, and a article about "How Farming Could Become the Ultimate Climate-Change Tool."
June 2024 NCA5 Teaching Resources
CLEAN, along with project partners, has developed a series of guides for educators that focus on the regional chapters of the Assessment Report, helping to unpack the key messages of each region and point to related, high-quality NCA5 teaching resources. This newsletter dives into each of the various sections of those guides while also spotlighting a few resources for certain areas.
May 2024 Educator Newsflash: Teaching Across the Curriculum
This month, CLEAN is providing resources on Teaching Across the Curriculum. In the activity, students will explore sea level rise and experiment with whether land ice and/or sea ice contribute to sea level rise as they melt. Watch how climate change affects the biomes and ecosystems in the US Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Caribbean Islands.
January 2024 Water
Kicking off the new year, CLEAN is providing resources for you to discuss the importance of water. Student will learn about how much water is in the food they eat, discuss worldwide droughts & water shortages, and connect the science of water to their own communities.
December 2023 Polar Science
This month, CLEAN is providing resources for you to take your class on an ice expedition, the Polar Lab. They will discover glacier ice and its impacts on the Earth's climate, as well as people's day to day lives. Watch how Ladakhi communities rely on glacial water and meet a Ladakhi teacher and engineer who devised a method to capture and store glacial runoff into magnificent ice pyramids.
November 2023 Educator Newsflash: ACCEL Kick-off
Last week's event was a kick-off for six amazing working groups who are going to begin meeting regularly around topics that they self-identified as being important to the community. Whether you were able to attend or not, we encourage you to join any of the working groups, no matter your availability. Please find the link to the working group sign-ups in the Newsletter.
November 2023: Teach Climate Literacy Principles in the classroom
The Climate Literacy Principles were created by the U.S. Global Change Research Program to promote greater climate science literacy by providing this educational framework of principles and concepts. These pages offer easy-to-read explanations of science and policy, designed to step students through the key principles of climate and energy. Each page is illustrated with examples to bring these topics alive in your classroom, and includes relevant resources from the CLEAN Collection.
October 2023 Educator Newsflash: New Resources
CLEAN has been hard at work reviewing resources to update our Collection. We are happy to share some of CLEAN's newest resources for you to use in your future lesson plans! Read more on a video, activity, and lesson that will be relevant for you and your students.
September 2023 Educator Newsflash: Most Popular Resources
We are officially back to school! This month, we wanted to share some of the most popular resources from the CLEAN Collection so you can use them in your classroom. Here, CLEAN shares educators' top picks to incorporate in the classroom this past year, from debating energy discovering global wind & weather patterns!