New Project: Climate Change Literacy for Educators

Dr. Donna Woudenberg, NDMC post-doc, is a co-investigator on a newly approved grant from NASA called Global Climate Change Literacy for Educators: Using On-Line Professional Development to Integrate Content and Pedagogy. Woudenberg will develop content related to climate change for four on-line education modules for middle and high school teachers. Researchers anticipate that they will reach at least 60 teachers, who will reach at least 3,000 students. A research action component will help spur action on climate change at the community level. Dr. Dave Gosselin, director of the Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network (NESEN) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is the principal investigator. Others on the project include Woudenberg; Dr. Ron Bonnstetter, from UNL’s Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education; Dr. Julie Thomas, from the Education Department at Oklahoma State University; and Dr. Russane Low of Boulder, Colorado, who has extensive experience in climate change education.

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