HR: 14:25h
AN: ED23C-04    [Abstracts]
TI: How do we create a climate literate society? A review of Climate Literacy essential principles and fundamental concepts that ensure climate literate citizens and students
AU: * Niepold, F
EM: frank.niepold@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA Climate Program Office National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1315 East West Highway, SSMC III, Rm. 12727, Silver Spring, MD 20910, United States
AB: Through a partnership between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and AAAS Project 2061 we have collaborated to define climate literacy and develop weather and climate benchmarks for science literacy. The newly developed and revised national weather and climate science education standards were published in March of 2007 in the AAAS Project 2061 Atlas for Science Literacy volume II. This session will present the results of these projects as well as the publication of "An Abbreviated Guide for Teaching Climate Change." The Climate Literacy effort is working in parallel with the Ocean Literacy effort and has developed a Framework for Climate Literacy using the AAAS Project 2061 Atlas of Science. On April 10 - 12, 2007, AAAS and NOAA brought together 25 individuals for a workshop. They represented federal science agencies, formal and informal educators, non-governmental organizations, and other institutions involved with climate research, education, and outreach to build on the science education benchmarks. This effort resulted in a draft framework that will be used to engage the broad community to develop a robust conceptual framework that addresses the essential principles and fundamental concepts that climate literate citizens and students should know. That document has been reviewed and commented on during several rounds and will be available during the conference.
UR: http://www.climate.noaa.gov/education/
DE: 0800 EDUCATION
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0815 Informal education
DE: 0820 Curriculum and laboratory design
DE: 0850 Geoscience education research
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting