From Principles to Practice: New Resources for Teaching Climate Education
Join us on January 23 at 3:00 PM ET for an eeWEBINAR featuring new (and free!) resources for integrating climate education into your teaching and learning.
Three climate change leaders will share materials to advance climate change education: Frank Niepold, NOAA’s Senior Climate Education Program Manager, Dr. Bora Simmons, Director of the Project for Excellence Program of NAAEE, and Michael Kozuch from MIT’s climate education group.
Our speakers will discuss:
- NOAA’s recently-released "Climate Literacy: Essential Principles for Understanding and Addressing Climate Change"
- NAAEE’s “Educating for Climate Action and Justice,” the latest module in the Guidelines for Excellence series
- New high-school climate change lesson plans from MIT that are free and easy to use
- Additional resources from NAAEE and NOAA that can support climate education at all levels
All registrants will receive the recording of this webinar.
Speakers:
Dr. Bora Simmons, Director of the Project for Excellence Program of NAAEE
Bora Simmons serves as the founding director of the National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education. The North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) initiated the Project in 1993 to help educators develop and deliver effective environmental education programs. The Project has drawn on the insights of literally thousands of educators across the United States and around the world to craft guidelines for top-quality environmental education.
Frank Niepold, NOAA’s Senior Climate Education Program Manager
Frank Niepold is the climate education coordinator at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Program Office in Silver Spring, Maryland. Niepold also leads the education section of NOAA's public data and information web portal, Climate.gov, and is a co-chair of the U.S. Global Change Research Program's Education Interagency Working Group. In addition, he has served as the U.S. Climate Action Report Education, Training, and Outreach chapter lead for the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an education and youth delegate for the United States at the 2015 Conference of Parties (COP21), and a member of the Federal Steering Committee for the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4).
At NOAA, he develops and implements NOAA's climate goal education and outreach efforts that specifically relate to NOAA's climate goal and literacy objective. Additionally, he is the managing lead of the U.S. Global Change Research Program document, "Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science."
This webinar is brought to you by ee360+.
ee360+: Building a Stronger and More Inclusive Movement Through Collective Impact
An ambitious multi-year initiative, the ee360+ Leadership and Training Collaborative connects, trains, and promotes innovative leaders dedicated to using the power of education to create a more just and sustainable future for everyone, everywhere. Led by NAAEE, ee360+ is made possible through funding and support from U.S. EPA and twenty-seven partner organizations representing universities and nonprofits across the country, and five federal agencies. Through this partnership, ee360+ brings together more than five decades of expertise to grow, strengthen, and diversify the environmental education field. Visit https://naaee.org/programs/ee360 to learn more.
