TEACHER WORKSHOPS

Montana Climate, Water and Resilience Teacher Workshop

Saturday, November 4 | 10am - 3pm 

Montana Upper Elementary, Middle, and High School Teachers

Location: Montana Outdoor Science School Office (2104 Industrial Drive, Unit B in Bozeman)

No Fee - mileage reimbursement, coffee, lunch and snacks provided

Continuing Education Units will be provided

This climate-focused workshop is offered in conjunction with the Project WET Foundation. Each participant will receive copies of two Project WET curriculum guides:

• Climate, Water and Resilience

• Project WET Guide 2.0

Project WET (Water Education Today) uses fun, hands-on activities to train educators and teach students about local and global water systems. This session will use Project WET’s guide—Climate, Water and Resilience—to effectively teach about local and global climate change using hands-on, interactive lessons for middle and high school educators. The lessons are developed for middle school and high school levels and include various topics from the fundamentals of climate change science to impacts on soil, forests, aquatic species and diseases. It was developed using climate science and data vetted by NOAA Climatologists and field tested by educators in the U.S. Lessons are correlated to NGSS, Common Core, and Water and Climate Literacy Principles. Climate change education is not just for science classes, however. It is an interdisciplinary subject that can be incorporated into math, social studies and writing and reading classes. It is also a topic that should include Indigenous Education for All (IEFA). 

Educators attending this session will have the option to receive additional climate training for their school and have their schools become WaterStar certified from Project WET through an EPA environmental education grant.

WaterStar Flier