How it all started:

2011 & 2013: Climate Science, 1-week Professional Development

In each of 2011 and 2013, an interdisciplinary team of scientists and high school teachers learned together and developed a year-long High School Climate Science Curriculum that would become a dual enrollment course for high school teachers to offer through the UWHS program. Funded by a NASA Global Climate Change Education Grant to LuAnne Thompson (UW Oceanography) and Tom Ackerman (UW JISAO*/Atmospheric Sciences), this effort was facilitated by Miriam Bertram (PCC), with many graduate students and guest presenters contributing and interacting with participating teachers. This was the beginning of PCC led scientist-teacher partnerships that has resulted in curriculum and a framework for our ongoing teacher-scientist workshops. For more information contact uwpcc@uw.edu. To be notified of future workshops join the pcceduc@uw.edu listserve.

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Past Workshops:

2019: “Does a few degrees C of global warming matter?”

On Saturday May 18, UW faculty member Kyle Armour and his graduate students led a small group of high school teachers through the fundamentals of climate models and a strategy for teaching students about why models predict different futures. Prof. Armour reframed and extended the climate model lesson and set the stage for development of adaptations of this lesson for participant’s classrooms.  

Read more on the blog.

2016: “Current Climate for Science Teachers”

Presentations were made by subject area experts, including both faculty and graduate students from STEM disciplines. Held at UW Seattle in October 2016.
2016 Presentations and schedule

2015: Washington State Teachers Association Annual Meeting

We presented and discussed results from recent IPCC and other reports, and gave participants the opportunity to dig deeper into Ocean Acidification, Landslides and Paleoclimate labs.