Summer Workshops Introduce Teachers to Great Lakes Climate Change Curriculum

For teachers interested in adding regional climate knowledge to their lesson plans, Ohio Sea Grant and the Ohio State Climate Change Outreach Team are now offering an additional resource. An updated Great Lakes Climate Change Curriculum, focusing on regional changes and effects, was introduced at teacher workshops in Ohio this summer, and parts are already available at changingclimate.osu.edu.

The workshops, held at the Lake Erie Nature & Science Center in Bay Village and at the University of Toledo’s Lake Erie Center in Oregon, gave 27 teachers and informal educators a chance to preview a selection of activities from the new curriculum, both in the classroom and in outdoor demonstrations. They learned about simulating maple tree migration and the effects of carbon dioxide on global temperatures, and completed some of the written exercises they will later assign in their own classroom.