Infusing Climate and Energy Literacy Throughout the Curriculum: Challenges and Opportunities
Abstract
Climate change and human activities, particularly fossil fuel energy consumption-- both related and crosscutting concepts vital to addressing 21st century societal challenges-- are largely missing from traditional science education curriculum and standards. Whether due to deliberate misinformation, efforts to "teach the controversy", lack of teacher training and professional development or availability of engaging resources, students have for decades graduated from high school and even college without learning the basics of how human activities, particularly our reliance on fossil fuels, impact the environment in general and climate system in particular. The Climate Literacy, Energy Literacy and related frameworks and curriculum, as well as the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and other innovative initiatives, provide new tools for educators and learners that hold strong potential for helping infuse these important topics across the curriculum and thereby better prepare society to minimize human impacts on the planet and prepare for changes that are already well underway.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2012
- Bibcode:
- 2012AGUFMPA23A1961M
- Keywords:
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- 0800 EDUCATION;
- 0850 EDUCATION / Geoscience education research;
- 1600 GLOBAL CHANGE;
- 6600 PUBLIC ISSUES