{"id":1223,"date":"2024-03-04T15:45:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T20:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2024-08-25T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T00:59:00","slug":"climate-change-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/2024\/03\/04\/climate-change-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change in the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Many people think climate change mainly means warmer temperatures. But temperature rise is only the beginning of the story. Because the Earth is a system, where everything is connected, changes in one area can influence changes in all others.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg2\/resources\/press\/press-release\">consequences of climate change<\/a> now include, among others, intense droughts, water scarcity, severe fires, rising sea levels, flooding, melting polar ice, catastrophic storms and declining biodiversity.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">-From United Nations Climate Action: What is Climate Change?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/climatechange\/what-is-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/climatechange\/what-is-climate-change<\/a><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Climate change doesn&#8217;t appear in the elementary science curriculum, though we try to sneak it in when we address human impact on the environment. How can we teach climate change in the classroom? What resources are available to teachers? How do we move beyond Earth Day to help students see that we can and must change? How can we help them make a difference?<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the following resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/opinion-how-to-help-children-cope-with-climate-anxiety-in-a-warming-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to help children cope with \u2018climate anxiety\u2019 in a warming world<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/column-the-climate-change-lesson-plans-teachers-need-and-dont-have\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The climate change lesson plans teachers need and don\u2019t have<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/article\/bringing-climate-change-elementary-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bringing Climate Change Into the Elementary Classroom<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/04\/25\/716359470\/eight-ways-to-teach-climate-change-in-almost-any-classroom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">8 Ways To Teach Climate Change In Almost Any Classroom<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the current science standards in Virginia come up for review and revision, now is the time to include this content. What argument would you make to the review committee for the inclusion of this content? What age do you think it&#8217;s appropriate to introduce these ideas? In your response, make your case for teaching climate in the elementary grades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people think climate change mainly means warmer temperatures. But temperature rise is only the beginning of the story. Because the Earth is a system, where everything is connected, changes in one area can influence changes in all others. The\u00a0consequences &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/2024\/03\/04\/climate-change-in-the-classroom\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[222966],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-climate-change"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemscisoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}