Dr. Mark Windschitl, Professor of Science Schooling on the College of Washington, joins host Mike Palmer to debate his new e-book Teaching Climate Change: Fostering Understanding, Resilience, and a Commitment to Justice. Drawing from his expertise as a instructor and researcher, Dr. Windschitl advocates for extra help to equip Okay-12 academics to show this interdisciplinary subject. You possibly can be taught extra at Mark’s companion website The Climate Change Educator.
We focus on the restricted, disjointed local weather change instruction occurring presently in Okay-12 faculties. Mark promotes extra coordinated, genuine initiatives that foster pupil company and break down disciplinary silos. He shares an instance modeling an city warmth islands unit integrating science, historical past, and justice. We additionally tackle partaking college students to get their views. Many college students really feel anxious about local weather change, so he suggests specializing in options and productive coping fairly than simply activating the anxiousness. He advocates intergenerational household studying offering house for conversations on this complicated topic. Relating to know-how’s function, Dr. Windschitl says options might be extra social than technological. He stresses on a regular basis actions people and communities can take. All through, he shares inspiration from college students engaged in local weather change studying and problem-solving. Don’t miss it!
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