2006 K-12 Educator Forum (High School)
Course Overview
ECOL/GEOS/GC 596s is structured as a 2-unit graduate course with discussion, lecture and activities on the teaching of global climate change in a high school science classroom. The course is focused around an evening speaker series offered through the College of Science.
Teacher-participants meet once a week for three hours in the evening. In the first hour the class participates in an activity for teaching science in a high school science classroom or a presentation on a K-12 outreach opportunity at the UA. In the second hour the class attends the College of Science Global Climate Change Lecture. The third hour consists of discussion of the lecture and its application to the high school classroom.
This course is structured for science teachers at the 6-12 grade level, but K-12 teachers at all levels are invited to participate. Pre-service teachers who are not yet certified may also take the course and earn undergraduate credit. Teachers earn two units of graduate credit.
For More Information
- Contact Richard Thompson
- rmthomps@u.arizona.edu
- 520-626-1641
To Register
- Contact Continuing Education and Academic Outreach
- 520-621-7724
- Enrollment is limited.
Tuition and Fees
100% tuition and fees (two units) are paid by the College of Science through funding provided by Research Corporation.
Location and Time
The first two classes meet in the Integrated Learning Center (ILC), Room 135.
The remainder of the classes meet in the Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) Building, Room 114.
Classes are Tuesdays, 6:00-9:00 pm. Parking is available in the Second Street and Cherry Avenue garages for classes held in the ILC, and in the Tyndall Avenue Garage for classes held in FCS.
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Educator Series
- The following classes will meet in ILC 135:
- Tuesday, October 3 and Tuesday, October 10
- Introduction to the Science and Teaching of Global Climate Change
- The course includes a research project on Local Climate: Is It Changing?
- The following classes will meet in FCS 114:
- Tuesday, October 17
- Global Climate Change: The Evidence
- Malcolm Hughes, Professor of Dendrochronology
- Tuesday, October 24
- Global Climate Change: What's Ahead
- Jonathan Overpeck, Director of the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth and Professor of Geosciences
- Tuesday, October 31
- Global Climate Change: The Role of Living Things
- Travis Huxman, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Tuesday, November 7
- Global Climate Change: Ocean Impacts and Feedbacks
- Julia Cole, Associate Professor of Geosciences
- Tuesday, November 14
- Global Climate Change: Disease and Society
- Andrew Comrie, Dean of the Graduate College and Professor of Geography and Regional Development
- Tuesday, November 21
- Global Climate Change: Could Geoengineering Reverse It?
- Roger Angel, Regents' Professor of Astronomy
- Tuesday, November 28
- Global Climate Change: Designing Policy Responses
- Paul Portney, Dean of the Eller College of Management and Professor of Economics
