Ongoing Opportunities & Events
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The GOES Virtual Science Fair (VSF) accepts projects annually, check
their website for specific dates. Students can participate and submit individual projects from home or in small teams with classmates. The main requirement is using data from GOES-EAST or GOES-WEST to investigate weather and natural hazards. Students from the winning teams will receive prizes, plus valuable research experience toward college or future careers.
Contact Margaret Mooney, margaret.mooney@ssec.wisc.edu
Audience: K-12 educators, K-12 students, Undergraduate
Opportunity Type: Events & conferences, Event
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The ACLIPSE course engages grade 6–12 teachers and teacher candidates in climate science/change activities using authentic data. ACLIPSE uses climate science as the context for applying current research about teaching and learning aligned with the Framework for K–12 Science Education. Educators and their students also improve their skills for using and interpreting real- and near real-time data.
Audience: College & university, K-12 educators
Opportunity Type: In person, Online
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Climate-Ready Classrooms will help K-12 teachers understand climate change, its urgency, and solutions to be able to incorporate climate into their curriculum. Attendees will receive a short climate overview presentation, including the latest data covering common areas of miscommunication. A series of lightning talks will highlight strategies and resources for teachers, as well as the intersection of climate issues, equity, and justice. At the end of the workshop, attendees will receive resources to help in their action plans, such as CPALMS-aligned lesson plans created by the CLEO Institute, worksheets for further brainstorming, and instructions on requesting CLEO climate presentations for their classrooms.
Audience:K-12 educators
Opportunity Type: In person
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This energizing experience connects educators to an engaged and authentic community seeking to build collective strength to inspire hope and action in our communities. Climate Generation hosts the Summer Institute for Climate Change Education annually.
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Audience:K-12 educators
Opportunity Type: In person
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Take your teaching about climate and energy to the next level with the CLEAN Webinar Series! Register for upcoming webinars or watch recordings of past webinars.
Audience:K-12 educators, College & university, Informal educators, Homeschooling
Opportunity Type:Online
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The STEM Teaching Tools team at UW Seattle runs the Climate Teacher Education Collaborative, a network building resources and capacity to teach about community climate justice projects and civic response to the climate crisis in teacher education programs. The initiative is hosting webinars and events; engaging small collaborative teams in developing open education resources (OER) for use in teacher education; and developing educative case studies of community climate responses. Follow the project on Twitter at
@ClimateEdTools.
Audience:K-12 educators
Opportunity Type: Online
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A 13-week distance-learning course on the atmospheric portion of the Earth system and its interaction with people using real-time data, text reading, activities, and online investigations. Course materials are included and 3 graduate credits are awarded upon completion of the course.
Audience:K-12 Educators
Opportunity Type:In person, Online
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A 13-week distance-learning course on the fluid Earth system emphasizing the atmospheric, ocean, and hydrologic sciences using real-time data, text reading, activities, and online investigations. Course materials are included and 3 graduate credits are awarded upon completion of the course.
Audience:K-12 Educators
Opportunity Type:In person, Online
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A 13-week distance-learning course that investigates the mass and energy flows associated with the global climate system and the related issues using real-time data, text reading, activities, and online investigations. Course materials are included and teachers receive 3 graduate credits upon completion of the course.
Audience:K-12 Educators
Opportunity Type:In person, Online
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LiMPETS is an environmental monitoring and education program for students, educators, and volunteer groups throughout California. Approximately 6,000 teachers and students per year along the coast of California are involved with the collection of rocky intertidal and sandy beach data as part of the LiMPETS network. Join us — learn the process of science and help to protect our local marine ecosystems.
Audience:College & university, K-12 educators
Opportunity Type:Field Experience
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MEEA organized the first statewide Climate Education Summit! This is an event where organizations working on intersectional climate and climate justice education can learn about the work of one another, build a shared vision about climate education and literacy in Maine, and start to identify strategies that will support the advancement of critical climate and climate justice education statewide.
The summit features three tracks:
Track A: Educator Training and Community Partnership
Track B: Climate Education Policy
Track C: Workforce Development
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MetEd is a free collection of hundreds of training modules intended for the geoscience community. The online modules cover a variety of topics and range from 30 minute lessons to entire university courses.
Audience:College & university, K-12 educators
Opportunity Type:Online
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The Mid-Atlantic Climate Change Education Convening builds off of the previous conferences. This one-day event will bring together formal and non-formal educators to share and learn about the latest trends in climate change education. Get a sense for what MACCEC is all about through
this blog post on BayBackpack.com! It's a retrospective from their inaugural conference in 2020. Contact
krysta.hougen@noaa.gov with any questions.
Audience:K-12 Educators
Opportunity Type:Online
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The National Weather Service (NWS) National School Outreach team is ready to teach and answer your students' weather questions. Whether it is learning about weather basics, severe weather, the sun or space weather, or any other topic the teacher needs covered, the NWS, through Google Meet, Zoom, or Skype, jumps into the classroom to help teach these topics to elementary through high school students.
Contact Sarah Atkins: sarah.atkins@noaa.gov and Robin Fox: robin.fox@noaa.gov
Audience:K-12 educators, Informal educators, K-12 students
Opportunity Type:Online, Event
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Come together to discuss sustainability and justice as key components of New Jersey's Climate Education policy. The Center for Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute, Columbia University will be hosting this event. This will be the 2nd annual Climate Change Education Summit to discuss policy and practice to further Climate Change Education in New Jersey. The Summit will include free workshops led by youth activists, educators, education and sustainability policy experts help to further participants' skills on climate storytelling, community organizing and thinking about ways to integrate learning and action toward sustainability and justice in schools and communities.
Contact ri2123@columbia.edu for more info.
Opportunity Type:Online
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Educators joining NOAA Planet Stewards receive sustained professional development through an active online learning community and regional events, and support in the development and implementation of hands-on projects that conserve, restore, and protect human communities and natural resources. Eligible participants may apply for mini-grants, travel stipends, and participate in contests.
Audience:College & university, Informal educators, K-12 educators
Opportunity Type:In person, Online
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NOAA Planet Stewards Webinars are live broadcasts given by nationally recognized NOAA and NOAA partner scientists, educators and communicators. These events provide knowledge and resources that help educators build their understanding of NOAA related science as well as their pedagogic and communication skills.
Audience:K-12 educators, Informal educators, Homeschooling, College & university
Opportunity Type:Online
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NAAEE is a leader in promoting excellence in environmental education. Their activities include an annual conference, publications on effective practices, professional development and networking services, and advocating for environmental education.
Audience:College & university, Homeschooling, Informal educators, K-12 educators, Pre-K educators
Opportunity Type:Upcoming, Events & conferences
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PRI will tailor workshops to help you teach about climate change past, present, and future, and about topics such as energy resources, sustainability, and biodiversity. For information contact their Director of Teacher Programming at
teacherPD@priweb.org.
Learn about current workshops through PRI's Learning Earth Newsletter for Teachers. Subscribe to the newsletter here.
Audience:K-12 educators
Opportunity Type: Online
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Teaching climate and climate change in schools begins with teacher professional learning opportunities. Teachers have a unique opportunity to inspire the next generation around climate change. Presido Graduate School's Climate Change Education for All program was created with the vision that all students leave high school climate literate. Their FREE online teacher professional development equips educators, of all subjects and grades, with the knowledge, skills and resources to enable them to confidently incorporate climate change education into their existing curriculum. Courses are facilitated by instructional leaders with expertise in teaching climate change in schools. Teachers can earn professional development hours, Continuing Education Units, or Graduate Credit.
Audience:K-12 educators
Opportunity Type: Online
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This workshop is conducted online and in person each July at the U.S. National Weather Service Training Center in Kansas City, Missouri. The course introduces educators to weather sensing, analyzing, and forecasting and includes lectures, hands-on laboratory exercises, and field trips.
Audience:K-12 Educators
Opportunity Type:In person
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Science Olympiad is an academic competition for students in grades K-12.
Audience:K-12 Educators
Opportunity Type:Events & conferences
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K-12 students in the United States - on average - spend just 2 hours per school year learning about the climate crisis. We want to increase that from 2 to 10. That's why the National Wildlife Federation and Bard College's Graduate Programs in Sustainability are launching a new campaign - #Teach10Hours4Climate - to increase the amount of time - five-fold - that K-12 students spend learning about the climate crisis and gain the knowledge and skills they need to adapt to a rapidly changing world. Use the downloadable #Teach10Hours4Climate Guide on the pledge page, complete with worksheets and links to curriculum resources, to help you meet your 10 hours. Plan to participate in the Worldwide Teach-In for Climate Justice on 3/29/23.
Audience:K-12 Educators
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The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program. To receive training on implementing GLOBE protocols in your classroom, GLOBE offers in-person workshops or online E-Teacher certification.
Audience:Informal educators, K-12 educators
Opportunity Type:In person
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The USA Science and Engineering Festival consists of one large event in Washington, D.C., and several smaller events throughout the country. The festival hosts hundreds of exhibitors, hands-on activities, performers, and speakers to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers.
Audience:College & university, Homeschooling, Informal educators, K-12 educators, Pre-K educators
Opportunity Type:Events & conferences
