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Teaching climate in non-climate history classes

Freda Anderson

So - I don't teach the Climate Project course. BUT, I find a way to teach about climate in all of my classes somehow, and I would even if I was an English teacher, or a Spanish teacher, etc.

This is because I heard a climate scientist turned ed professor say once to a group of teachers "what would you be doing if the sh*t really hit the fan? Like we're full on in the life and death emergency? What would you be doing?" and then he listened to some of our replies "how to grow your own food," "how to create shade," "how to forage," "how to avoid heat islands," etc. And then he was like "Great, because the sh*t has hit the fan, so we need to be teaching these things now."

So I've been trying to bring that in ever since, to varying success.

I am curious, how have you taught about climate OUTSIDE of a climate specific course?

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  •   , I love the story and I love your question. 

    I bet that most of us who are using "The Climate Project" are NOT doing a stand-alone climate course. We are using parts of the Climate  Project as units within a different course. Here are some of the ways I have used climate education activities:

    As part of "Contemorary World Problems"

    As the research project in Senior Engish

    Sprinkled throughout BHP courses, which hava already been part of geography or world History classes

    As a "Project Pathway" or "Culminating Project" for those who need to meet a graduation requirement

    With the current version of the Climate Project, I like the "Pathways" option. It allows for unit sized materials to be borrowed from a full-blown course.

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  •   , I love the story and I love your question. 

    I bet that most of us who are using "The Climate Project" are NOT doing a stand-alone climate course. We are using parts of the Climate  Project as units within a different course. Here are some of the ways I have used climate education activities:

    As part of "Contemorary World Problems"

    As the research project in Senior Engish

    Sprinkled throughout BHP courses, which hava already been part of geography or world History classes

    As a "Project Pathway" or "Culminating Project" for those who need to meet a graduation requirement

    With the current version of the Climate Project, I like the "Pathways" option. It allows for unit sized materials to be borrowed from a full-blown course.

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