ED53A:
Climate Literacy: Successes and Strategies in Youth Engagement in Building Resilience to Climate Change Impacts in Vulnerable Communities with Citizen Science I Posters

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Session ID#: 33493

Session Description:
Informal education programs, including those at museums, aquaria, environmental education organizations, place-based nonprofits, and activities outside school hours, reach significant numbers of students and are a major source of science information for the public. Informal educators have developed and tested a wide variety of lessons and strategies to build climate literacy, with programs for youth, teacher professional development, families, citizen science, and place-based community programs. We invite proposals from educators in the informal education sphere, and we encourage proposals related to citizen science and advancing public science literacy through climate change education. We welcome contributions from large and small organizations to present innovative and effective strategies, pilot or scaled-up programs, and evaluations of impact. What strategies do you use to bring climate science and solutions to life? What are your biggest successes and challenges? What important outcomes can you share with the wider climate change education community?
Primary Convener:  Patricia Harcourt, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Annapolis, MD, United States
Conveners:  Frank Niepold III, NOAA Washington DC, Climate Program Office, Washington, United States, Carey E Stanton, National Wildlife Federation, Austin, TX, United States and Elena B Sparrow, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Chairs:  Elena B Sparrow, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Carey E Stanton, National Wildlife Federation, Austin, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Patricia Harcourt, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Annapolis, MD, United States
Index Terms:

0805 Elementary and secondary education [EDUCATION]
0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
0825 Teaching methods [EDUCATION]
0845 Instructional tools [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Girls on Ice program: Improving perceptions of climate change and environmental stewardship by exploring a glacier landscape (238181)
Joanna C Young, University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, United States, Laura Conner, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Erin C Pettit, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States
Farzana’s Journey: A Children’s Book for Research-based, Educational Outreach in Remote Communities of Bangladesh (258723)
Chelsea Peters, Vanderbilt University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nashville, United States, George M Hornberger, Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt Institute for Energy & Environment, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Nashville, TN, United States and Matt Machado, Vanderbilt University, Earth and Environmental Science, Nashville, TN, United States
Cycle for Science: An informal outreach program connecting K-12 students with renewable energy and physics through miniature 3D-printed, solar-powered bicycles (263815)
Elizabeth Case, Cornell University, Mechanical Engineering, Ithaca, United States and Rachel Woods-Robinson, University of California Berkeley, Applied Science and Technology, Berkeley, CA, United States
Story – Science – Solutions: A new middle school science curriculum that promotes climate-stewardship (264248)
Eugene Cordero, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States and Diana C. Centeno Delgado, San Jose State University, Meteorology and Climate Science, San Jose, CA, United States
Promoting Climate Literacy within the 21CCLC Afterschool Community through the Development of a GLOBE Atmosphere Investigation: A Partnership between the United States Department of Education and NASA (272241)
Tina Harte, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Jessica Taylor, NASA Langley, Newport News, United States
The Citizen Science Program "H2O SOS: Help Heal the Ocean—Student Operated Solutions: Operation Climate Change" teaches middle and high school students about ocean threats related to climate change through hands-on activities and learning experiences in the field. This is a continuation of the Program presented last year at the Poster Session. (292223)
Nicola K Weiss and John H Wood, Talbert Middle School, Huntington Beach, CA, United States
Successfully Engaging Family and Student Audiences in Climate Science Workshops in an Informal Learning Venue (300991)
Greg DeFrancis1, Rebecca Haynes1 and Kes Schroer2, (1)Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, VT, United States, (2)Independent Evaluator, Hanover, NH, United States

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