ED41C:
Climate Literacy: Successes and Strategies in Youth Engagement in Building Resilience to Climate Change Impacts in Vulnerable Communities with Citizen Science Il

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Session ID#: 35506

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:  Patricia Harcourt, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Annapolis, MD, United States, Elena B Sparrow, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Frank Niepold III, NOAA Washington DC, Climate Program Office, Washington, 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:

Storytelling and Technology Combine to Create Student Engagement Around Locally Relevant Climate Change Topics. (226264)
Erin Leckey1, Megan Littrell2, Kelsey Tayne3, Anne U Gold4, Christine Okochi5, David Oonk6, Lesley K Smith7 and Susan E Lynds7, (1)CIRES University of Colorado, Education & Outreach, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado, School of Education, Boulder, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, United States, (5)University of Colorado Boulder, Center for Education, Engagement and Evaluation; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (6)CIRES University of Colorado, Boulder, United States, (7)CIRES University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Connecting Alaskan Youth, Elders, and Scientists in Climate Change Research and Community Resilience (247648)
Katie Spellman and Elena B Sparrow, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Engaging informal audiences in learning about and responding to climate change through a portfolio of innovative approaches (Invited) (249521)
Stephanie L Pfirman, Barnard College and Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, Jessica Brunacini, Columbia Climate Center, New York, NY, United States, Benjamin S Orlove, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Elizabeth Bachrach, Goodman Research Group, Cambridge, MA, United States and Lawrence Hamilton, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
Engaging 5th/6th Graders in Representations of Change Over Time in the Context of Adaptations to Climate Change in the Gulf of Maine (241597)
Leigh Peake, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, ME, United States and Riley Young Morse, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, United States
Using real objects to teach about climate change: an ethnographic perspective (264305)
Laura Conner1, Suzanne Perin2, Vicki Coats3 and Matthew Sturm1, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Natural Science and Mathematics, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, OR, United States
Solutions-based climate change education for K-Gray: Renewable energy and energy efficiency (242427)
Christopher Petrone, University of Delaware, Delaware Sea Grant, Newark, DE, United States
Youth Climate Summits: Empowering & Engaging Youth to Lead on Climate Change (275150)
Jen Kretser, The Wild Center, Tupper Lake, United States

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