Join the CLEAN Community
There are a variety of ways for you to become engaged in the CLEAN community.
- Visit CLEAN on Facebook .
- Stay current with CLEAN! Sign up for the CLEAN Announcements for periodic email updates from the CLEAN project about events and resources related to teaching about climate and energy.
- Share your ideas, experiences and ways of improving teaching and learning about climate and energy topics through our Discussion Board.
- Volunteer to be a Science Reviewer for the CLEAN collection.
- Suggest a Teaching Resource that you think would be appropriate for CLEAN to review for inclusion in the collection.
- Join the Climate Literacy Network. This group of practitioners and scientists communicates through a very active email list and weekly phone conferences where they share information, identification of best practices and key teaching and learning resources, and discuss the development of collaborative activities.
CLEAN Workshops and Webinars
To help educators make the most of the CLEAN collections and learn more about teaching climate literacy and energy awareness, we are offering a series of professional development events. Workshops for undergraduate faculty
These online workshops provide opportunities for faculty of all disciplines to learn in-depth science, see examples of innovative classroom projects, and to create new classroom materials for teaching about energy and climate. Sign up for CLEAN Announcements to be notified of upcoming workshops.Communicating Climate Science in the Classroom - April 2-11, 2012See results of the 2011 workshops about climate and energy.
This workshop will explore effective practices for communicating climate science and climate policy and will showcase strategies to help improve student understanding of this complex and sensitive topic.
Teaching Climate Complexity - May 7-16, 2012
This workshop is designed to help faculty expand their knowledge of the climate system, and will offer demonstrations of successful teaching approaches. Faculty will collaborate to create new classroom materials for teaching climate literacy.
Interactive webinars for teachers of grades 6-12
The monthly interactive webinar series addresses a variety of topics within climate and energy. Teachers can attend these free sessions to gather information about science, see example teaching materials from the CLEAN collection, and consider classroom strategies that are particularly suited to these topics. Upcoming interactive webinars are as follows:- February 16 Interactive Webinar - Teaching Essential Principle # 6: Human activities are impacting the climate system
- February 28 Interactive Webinar (note: new date!)- Teaching Essential Principle #5 Our understanding of the climate system is improved through observations, theoretical studies, and modeling
- March 15 Interactive Webinar - Teaching Essential Principle #7 Climate change will have consequences for the Earth system and human lives
- April 17 Interactive Webinar - Teaching the Guiding Principle - Humans can take actions to reduce climate change and its impacts
- May 15 Interactive Webinar - Teaching Energy Awareness - Being aware of the role of energy in the Earth system and human society allows us to take actions to conserve, prepare, and make informed energy choices
The following interactive webinars have already taken place; a recording of each webinar is available on its place page:
- Teaching Essential Principle #1: The Sun is the primary source of energy for Earth's climate system
- Teaching Essential Principle #2: Climate is regulated by complex interactions
- Teaching Essential Principle #3: Life on Earth depends on, is shaped by, and affects climate
- Teaching Essential Principle #4: Climate varies over space and time through both natural and human-made processes
Learn about CLEAN at Professional Meetings
Upcoming presentations:
- Presentation about CLEAN at NSTA regional conference, Hartford, Connecticut: October 27–29, 2011
- Presentation about CLEAN at NSTA regional conference, New Orleans, Louisiana: November 10–12, 2011
- Presentations about CLEAN at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting- December 5-9, 2011, San Francisco, CA
Past presentations:
Show where we presented on CLEAN in 2010-11
Hide- Presentation about CLEAN at NAAEE Annual Meeting, Raleigh-Durham, NC: October 12-15, 2011
- Presentations about CLEAN at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting , Minneapolis, MN: October 9-12, 2011
- Webinar presentation at a K-12 teacher workshop, Ecology in Context: Understanding Climate Change, August 23, 1011
- Poster on CLEAN at CIRES Rendez-vous, Boulder, CO: April 22, 2011
- Hands-on presentation about CLEAN at "Climate & Colorado's Water Future" Workshop, Golden, CO: March 11, 2011
- Demonstration of CLEAN at TERC booth at NSTA National Conference, San Francisco, CA: March 10-13, 2011
- Poster on CLEAN at NSF-NOAA-NASA Tri-agency PI meeting, Fairfax, VA: February 28-March 2, 2011
- The CLEAN team presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting- December 13-17, 2010, San Francisco, CA
- The CLEAN Team presented at the Colorado Science Conference - November 18-19, 2010, Denver
- The CLEAN Team presented at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting - October 31 - November 3, 2010, Denver, Colorado
- The CLEAN Team presented at the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Annual Meeting- November 1-3, 2010, Washington DC
- The CLEAN Team presented at the COLTT conference - August 11-12, 2010.
- The CLEAN Team presented at the Cosmo in the Classroom Conference - July 31- August 4, 2010.
The CLEAN Community is what you make it, so join in and help us foster a more climate literate, energy aware, science savvy society!
The CLEAN Community aims to serve as a forum of educators and others interested in helping to "close the loop" around the topics of climate and energy, science and solutions. The centerpiece of the CLEAN Pathway, a National Science Digital Library, is the reviewed and annotated digital collection. But the success of the collection also depends on fostering a robust community of practitioners and enthusiasts who can work together to increase our collective literacy and awareness of climate and energy topics is integral to the project. The focus of the CLEAN Community is on teaching climate and energy, and use of the CLEAN collection. So join us!
