2023 Climate Change Institute
2023 Climate Change Institute
Workshop Dates: July 31 – August 1, 2023
Grades: K – 5
Presented By: Oakland Teachers Advancing Climate Action (OTACA), Chabot Space and Science Center, and Community Resources for Science (CRS)
This two-day Climate Change Institute focused on building climate and environmental justice literacy and practice. This no-cost program was co-sponsored by the Oakland Education Association’s Oakland Teachers Advancing Climate Action (OTACA), Chabot Space and Science Center, and the Community Resources for Science (CRS). Showcase of student action projects, planning time with peers and partner organizations, and pre-view of new curriculum in development.
Resources from this Workshop
For Grades K-2
- Roots & Shoots: Community Mapping
- Learning In Places: Classroom Storyline
- Learning In Places: Wonder Walk lesson plan
- Climate stories
- Infographic: Talk Climate with Kids
- Community Science: I See Change
- Water cycle
- NOAA: Climate – essential principles
- What’s the difference between weather and climate
- StopWaste resources
- Native Land
- Book: Old Enough to Save the Planet by Loll Kirby
- Book: Touch the Earth by Julian Lennon
- Talk Climate
- Books and Videos (K, TK)
- Greening schoolyards advocacy resources
For Grades 3-5
- Slide presentation on river otters & model making – this is a large file that may take a long time to open/download
- Understanding Global Change (UGC) website
- Computer-base interactive for making Understanding Global Change models
- Ambitious Science Teaching website at UW
- CLEAN Understanding Global Change homepage
- Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (general teaching resources)
- River Otter Ecology Project
Resources from STEM4Real
- Slide presentation: STEM4Real, Creating a Playing Field for All Students
- Guiding worksheet: STEM+ Justice_Fillable
- Greatest Songs about Climate Change
- Learning for Justice: Social Justice Standards (click here for full framework)
- Standards Spreadsheet: CA NGSS Performance Expectations with Math and ELA
- Arguing from evidence
- Going Beyond the Land Acknowledgement
- Marin County example: How a Coast Miwok Group Is Buying Back a Piece of Their Ancestral Land in Marin
Action Projects
- Slide Presentation: Repurpose with Purpose: Using Recycle Materials for Animal Shelters – Rozy Razo
- Slide Presentation: Street Tree Solutionary Unit – Atria Rondone
- Slide Presentation: Willow Project Integrated Unit – Brittany Jefferson
- Slide Presentation: Understanding Energy – Jamila Edwards
- Video: Zero Waste – Jackie Omania
- Slide Presentation: Climate Change Expos – Abby Paske