Susan Sullivan, Anne Gold, Jennifer TaylorCIRES Education and Outreach Group, CU Boulder

cires.colorado.edu

Teaching Resources for Water and Climate

Boulder Climate Change Workshop 2015

Introductions

About CIRESNOAA Cooperative InstituteWe’re biggishWe do alotSome of our centers

Western Water Assessment

National Snow and Ice Data Center

Center for Science and Technology Policy

CIRES Outreach: Susan Sullivan, Anne Gold, Susan Lynds, Amanda

Morton, David Oonk, George Sharman, Lesley Smith, Jennifer

Taylorand students

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Why Water?

How do you teach about water now?Why connect water to climate?

People experience climate change through water

People can engage with a tangible, local impact

Water can make climate, sustainability, and natural hazards performance expectations relevant

Great entry point for resiliency planning

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Complexities

Flood and drought, sea level rise and storm surge

Soil moisture, evapotranspiration-food, ecosystems

Industry, economies, environmental and human needs

Legal complexitiesScale-dependent

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NGSS: Earth and Human Activity Grade level Natural

ResourcesNatural Hazards Human Impacts Global Climate

Change

High School HS-ESS3-2 Energy

HS-ESS3-3 Relate resources, pop, biodiversity

HS-ESS3-6 Earth systems

HS-ESS3-1 Env influences human HS-ESS3-4 Reduce impact

HS-ESS3-5 Forecast CC

Middle School MS-ESS3-1 Distribution resources

MS-ESS3-2 Forecast hazards

MS-ESS3-4 Population & consumption

MS -ESS3-5 Global temps

MS-ESS3-3 Monitor and minimize

Grade 5 5-ESS3-3 Protect environment

Grade 4 4-ESS3-1 Energy 4-ESS3-2 Reduce impact

Grade 3 3-ESS3-2 Weather

K-2 K-ESS3-1 Habitat KESS3-2 Weather KESS3-3 Impact

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Needs

What do you need to teach about climate and water in your classroom? Professional development Teaching resources Relevant information Support

What do you know for sure?

Professional Development

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Professional Development

Massively Open Online Courses? Anyone?Water in the Western United States (Coursera) Physical, legal, policy considerations, Colorado River Basin

Engagement Moving to On-Demand Format

Thanks for everything!  I have learned a lot of new things and the course has given me some great ideas for direction for my high school Environmental Science students.  I

hope you this course is offered in the future for other students...I would definitely

recommend it!  Cheers!

Western Water Example Videos

A Growing Controversy: Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Supplies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIzx2iRtrXE

Understanding Water Quality Impacts: Boulder Creek Case Study

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jsyq760-Kc

ProsPros ConsCons

Free, virtualOn your own timeCertificate Credit for someFrom top universities

Diverse studentsCommunity may form

Lack of individualized instructor attention

Peer-grading glitches

Technical, time requirements

Difficulty forming relationships

Hands on more rare

Consider before you sign up….

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Magnificent MOOCs from Coursera

Also check Udacity, EdX and Canvas

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More Professional Development

CIRES Power of Water workshops

Climate.gov “Teaching Climate”

CLEAN NetworkLocal universities and science centers

The Great Flood of 2013: Ecosystem Impacts and Stream Recovery River Dynamics and Vegetation in the Arid West July 28 and August 10

WHAT’S OUT THERE TO USE?

Teaching Resources

The CLEAN Collection (cleanet.org)

Find CLEAN at Cleanet.org

Click to search the CLEAN Educational Resources Collection

Type in a climate science concept (e.g. water)

Refine search results

Resource Type

Climate Topics

Grade Level

Climate Literacy Principles, etc.

Next Generation Science Standards in progress

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Integrate http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/index.html

WHAT IS RELEVANT?

Find Relevant information

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Remember scale-dependence?

From National Climate

Assessment

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State and local assessments

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Google is your friend

National Climate Assessment: http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/

Western Water Assessments: http://wwa.colorado.edu/publications/reports/

Climate.gov data: https://www.climate.gov/maps-data

NIDIS: http://www.drought.gov/drought/

Who has your back?

Find Support

Join the CLEAN Network-get the digest

Support

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Thank you!

Questions & to join CIRES listserv:Susan.Sullivan@Colorado.eduhttp://cires.colorado.edu/education-outreach/

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Webinars and Online course

Webinar series Extreme Weather: Mitigation and Resiliency

Attribution of Extreme Weather Events

Water in the West: Too much or too little?

The Colorado River Basin http://learnmoreaboutclimate.colorado.edu/initiatives/webinars

Upcoming mini-MOOC Canvas.net