Courses by Teachers in Lifelines for High School Climate Change Education
The Global Systems Science Lifelines for High School Climate Change Education was a NASA Innovations in Climate Education (NICE) project, 2010–2012. Through professional learning communities (PLCs) of high school science teachers, the Lifelines project facilitated incorporating climate change topics in the courses they teach. We gathered teachers’ course outlines with clearly marked places where climate change subjects fit, as well as links to activities, labs, investigations, and resources used by PLC member teachers.
Teaching Resources
Lifelines PLC members compiled lists of resources helpful in high school climate change education in three categories:
Activities -•- Information -•- Multimedia
Lifelines PLC members posted course outlines that included:
- Course Title, PLC Member’s Name, School, City and State
- Top level outline (all the major units in the course)
- Flag the climate-change-relevant units (e.g. with asterisk & make bold font)
- List of resources used specifically for the climate-change-related units.
Include resource name/title, what Unit it goes with, and URL if applicable.
Participants learned how to create and edit Google Site pages.
Courses included contributions by teachers in these subject areas:
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Earth Science
- AP Environmental Science (APES)
- Environmental Science
- Marine/Ocean Science
- Mathematics
- Middle School-8th Grade
- Physics
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Biology | Chemistry | Earth Sci | APES | Environmental Sci | Marine/Ocean Sci | Mathematics | Physics | Middle School
Biology
- Chad Segrist
- Cris DeWolf
- Darcie Ruby
- DearbornMI
- Debbie Wheeler – KY
- Rebecca Brewer
- Shiloh Carroll – AZ – IPCC_FAQS.pdf – IPCC4_Synthesis_Report.pdf
- Suzanne Huntemann
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Biology | Chemistry | Earth Sci | APES | Environmental Sci | Marine/Ocean Sci | Mathematics | Physics | Middle School
Chemistry
- Amanda Laidlaw – Unit 1: Using Models to Predict Climate Change –
Unit 2: Local Climate and Climate Change - Andrew Goodin
- Kathryn Robles
- Wanda Bryant
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Biology | Chemistry | Earth Sci | APES | Environmental Sci | Marine/Ocean Sci | Mathematics | Physics | Middle School
Earth Science
- Amy Kochan
- Anne Fenton
- Carrie Jones
- Cris DeWolf
- Fran Hess [link lost]
- Michael Tally
- Michelle Greshock
- Susan Tate – Angle of Insolation Lab – Chapter 22 Study Guide – (course outline not available)
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Biology | Chemistry | Earth Sci | APES | Environmental Sci | Marine/Ocean Sci | Mathematics | Physics | Middle School
AP Environmental Science (APES)
- Amanda Rabatin
- Anne Fenton
- Carl Rush
- Eugene Vann
- Fran Hess
- Hilary Staples
- Janell Simpson
- Lisa Thoss
- Mike Jackson
- William Green
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Biology | Chemistry | Earth Sci | APES | Environmental Sci | Marine/Ocean Sci | Mathematics | Physics | Middle School
Environmental Science
- Darcy Ruby
- Denise Kuehner
- Elliott Karetny
- Joel Rubin
- Laurel Kohl
- Lise LeTellier – Greenhouse Gases Lab
- Michael Tally
- Valarie Gray
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Biology | Chemistry | Earth Sci | APES | Environmental Sci | Marine/Ocean Sci | Mathematics | Physics | Middle School
Marine/Ocean Science
- Amanda Rabatin
- Carl Rush – www.sciencerush.net – Marine Ecology Detailed Pacing
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Biology | Chemistry | Earth Sci | APES | Environmental Sci | Marine/Ocean Sci | Mathematics | Physics | Middle School
Mathematics
- Joyce Lee – Math 8 – Unit 4
- Kate Fanelli –
ICCARS Math Sections – Unit Description and Lesson Sequence for this Climate change study unit
Climate Change Lesson 1 and Lesson 2 – handouts used for Climate Change lesson
JYW Windmills – directions for the Junkyard Wars lesson
Personal Action Plan – handout and directions
Reading Log – to go along with reading of the book
Wind Experiment – handouts for the wind experiment
Mathematics Rubric – assessment tool
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Biology | Chemistry | Earth Sci | APES | Environmental Sci | Marine/Ocean Sci | Mathematics | Physics | Middle School
Physics
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Biology | Chemistry | Earth Sci | APES | Environmental Sci | Marine/Ocean Sci | Mathematics | Physics | Middle School