ED31A:
Climate Literacy in Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities in Research and Evaluation I Posters

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Session ID#: 35377

Session Description:
Climate change is an increasingly urgent issue that will impact students and the public throughout their lives and careers. AGU programs for the past few years have shared promising results on how to improve public understandings; however, we have yet to establish best practices or sustain large-scale collective action. This session will examine papers presenting research results, the application of findings or outlines of current practice on projects that improve climate change literacy. Providing students and citizens with the perspective and skills to address challenges to teaching about climate often requires instructional approaches from a variety of disciplines. Papers in this session will share faculty experiences, resources or lessons learned and shed light on the foundations of misconceptions and barriers to knowledge and action. This session aims to identify, synergize, and validate on-going research and education efforts while challenging one another to determine how to advance the field.
Primary Convener:  Drew Fulton Bush, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Conveners:  Margaret A Holzer, PhD, Rutgers University, Geography, New Brunswick, United States and Rebecca K Anderson, Alliance for Climate Education, Oakland, CA, United States
Chairs:  Drew Fulton Bush, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada and Margaret A Holzer, PhD, Rutgers University, Piscataway, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jonathan Cole, Pacifica, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]
0820 Curriculum and laboratory design [EDUCATION]
0840 Evaluation and assessment [EDUCATION]
0850 Geoscience education research [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Build a Catastrophe: Using Digital World and Policy Models to Engage Political Science Students with Climate Change (295432)
Lev Horodyskyj, Arizona State University, Education Through eXploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, Tara Lennon, Arizona State University, School of Politics & Global Studies, Tempe, United States, Chris Mead, Arizona State University, Center for Education Through Exploration, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States and Ariel D Anbar, Arizona State University, School of Earth & Space Exploration and School of Molecular Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States
A Faculty Workshop Model to Integrate Climate Change across the Curriculum (285598)
Jane L Teranes, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Assessing the Credibility of Climate Science Information: A Roadmap for Educators (232950)
Scott A Mandia, SUNY Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY, United States
Libretexts: a flexible online open system for disseminating educational materials relevant to geophysics at all levels (299553)
Joshua B Halpern, Howard University, Chemistry, Washington, DC, United States
Assessing Weather Curiosity in University Students (288101)
Alan E. Stewart, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States

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