Stephanie Sisk-Hilton

Teaching Climate Science in the Elementary Classroom

A Place-Based, Hope-Filled Approach to Understanding Earth's Systems

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Discover new ways to help elementary students engage with and understand the world around them by incorporating climate-informed learning into the classroom. This book features foundational climate concepts, easily implementable activity plans, and inspiring examples of student engagement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781032493862
• ISBN-10: 1032493860
• Artikelnr.: 69030657

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Sisk-Hilton is a Professor of Elementary Education at San Francisco State University. Her research focuses on how children and teachers co-create science understanding and how issues of agency and belonging interact with learning. She has taught elementary and middle school in Prince George's County, MD, Atlanta, GA, Brooklyn, NY, and Oakland and Berkeley, CA. She also facilitated a backyard summer science camp for neighborhood children for ten years. She works extensively as a teacher professional developer, supporting elementary educators to develop ambitious, joyful, and hope-filled science learning experiences.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Do Little Kids Really Need to Be Thinking About Climate Change? 2.
Interconnectedness. 3. The Carbon Cycle: Exploring Systems Through Story.
4. Getting To Know Trees and Forest Systems. 5. The Ocean As A Global
System. 6. Cities: Human and Natural Systems Working Together. 7. The Food
We Eat And The Food We Waste. 8. (Sustainable) Energy. 9. When Harm Comes
to Our Communities: Teaching and Learning in the Presence of Natural and
Human Disasters. 10. Toward a Pedagogy of Hope-Filled Action