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Climate Smart & Energy Wise

Advancing Science Literacy, Knowledge, and Know-How
By: Mark S. McCaffrey

Foreword by Eugenie C. Scott and Jay B. Labov

Climate Smart & Energy Wise offers a virtual blueprint to climate and energy education, packed with proven strategies, learning activities, online resources and more.

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781483304472
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2014
  • Page Count: 192
  • Publication date: October 17, 2014
Price: $32.95
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Description

Description

Climate Smart & Energy Wise provides a roadmap to teachers to assist them in acquiring the background and resources to bring climate and energy education into their classrooms . . . It provides a wealth of information to help teachers find resources, including the very useful Climate Literacy and Energy Literacy frameworks, developed by scientists and master teachers. This book is packed with suggestions for where a teacher can find more information and classroom guidance for the teaching of global climate change."

- From the Foreword by Eugenie C. Scott, Ph.D., former Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, Inc. and Jay B. Labov, Ph.D., Senior Advisor for Education and Communication for the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council

Today’s answers to our most urgent climate issues

The twenty-first century ushered in a set of unmistakably urgent global challenges that are too important to be an afterthought in today’s classrooms. Just in time, here’s a resource to improve your students’ understanding of the intersection of science and social policy by making climate and energy literacy the centerpiece of your curriculum.

What recommends Climate Smart & Energy Change in particular? That there’s no more informed expert on the subject than Mark McCaffrey. His book offers a virtual blueprint to climate and energy education, packed with resources and strategies, including:

  • A high-level overview of where climate and energy topics fit (or don't fit) in to your current curriculum
  • A discussion of the new Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and how you can meet them with well-planned pedagogical strategies
  • Proven methods to teach climate change and related topics in a grade-appropriate way
  • Sample learning activities and high-quality online resources from the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN)

Students, educators, and parents must pool their diverse skills and abilities to ensure our schools produce graduates that are able to respond to the global imperative facing us all. Climate Smart & Energy Wise is the key to making a better future our reality.


Key features

  • Written by one of the leading experts on climate change education, Mark McCaffrey, Program and Policy Director for the National Center for Science Education. NCSE provides information and advice as the premier institution dedicated to defending and supporting the teach of evolution and climate change in the science classroom.
  • The book will serve as both a resource for understanding climate change science content as well as a practical resource for effective and engaging pedagogical practice.
  • The book will address the NGSS content standards and cross cutting concepts and show how educators can convey climate and energy concepts, science and engineering practices and insights that will allow learners to gain key content knowledge and critical thinking skills.
  • Learn how climate and energy challenges can be harnessed in education to foster the knowledge and know-how needed to meet the challenges and job opportunities of the 21st Century.

Author(s)

Author(s)

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Mark S. McCaffrey

Currently serving as Senior Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Development Studies at the National University for Public Service in Budapest, Hungary, Mark S. McCaffrey served as Programs and Policy Director at the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) and was co-author of "Climate Confusion Among U.S. Science Teachers" in the journal Science in February of 2016. He was an Associate Scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 2001 to 2011 and played a catalytic role in initiating and deploying the Climate Literacy and Energy Literacy frameworks. He was a co-founder of the Climate Literacy & Energy Literacy Network (CLEAN), and member of the International Polar Year Education, Outreach and Communications Committee. He holds a graduate degree in education from the University of Northern Colorado where he focused on water as an interdisciplinary and integrating theme for teaching. McCaffrey helped establish an education affinity group with the National Climate Assessment Network, which is a public private partnership organized under the auspices of the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword by Eugenie C. Scott and Jay B. Labov


About the Author


Introduction


Chapter 1. Climate and Energy 101

Chapter 2. Teaching (and Learning) About Climate Challenges and Energy Solutions

Chapter 3. Syncing With the Standards

Chapter 4. Teaching Climate Literacy

Chapter 5. Teaching Energy Literacy

Chapter 6. Programs That Work

Chapter 7. Countering Skepticism, Denial, and Despair

Chapter 8. Knowledge, Know-How, and Informed Action

Appendix I. Voices for Climate Education


Appendix II. Excerpts From Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science


Appendix III. Excerpts From Energy Literacy: Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts for Energy Education


References


Index


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