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Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County, the Sciencenter and the Center for Climate Change Education at PRI are offering a FREE half-day event focused on climate education.

Date: Saturday, September 27th

Time: Workshops 9-10am; Drop-in resource fair 10am-noon

Location: Sciencenter, 601 1st Street, Ithaca, NY 14850. Parking is available on-site.

Come join us to access resources for teaching about climate change that are locally relevant and grade-specific. This professional development workshop will cater to teachers at every grade level and across all disciplines. Informal educators are welcome too. 

Climate Education is relevant in every discipline: recent ELA Regents Exams now include climate change-related topics; climate and energy are also Social Studies issues that cannot be deeply understood without Mathematics; Health topics will increasingly be about the dangers we face; and the Arts are an effective way to communicate about climate change. Also, the NYSSLS standards infuse more climate topics into science across all grades and science disciplines. 

The day will begin with What I'd Teach About Climate Change if I Only Had an Hour by PRI’s Don Haas. The workshop is appropriate for teachers of all grades and subject areas. The opening workshop will be followed by a Resource Fair offering climate-connected resources, information, and activity ideas presented by the following organizations:

• CCE Tompkins- Ag & Hort Team   

• Cornell Botanic Gardens

• Cornell Chapter of the American Meteorological Society (CCAMS)

• Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County

• Cornell Health Impacts Core 

• Cornell on Fire, Climate Action Now, Climate Reality

• Cornell University

• Discover Cayuga Lake

• Finger Lakes Library System

• Ithaca Public Education Initiative (IPEI)

• The Johnson Museum

• The Center for Climate Change Education at the Paleontological Research Institution

• Project Look Sharp - Ithaca College

• Sciencenter

• Southside Community Center

• Sunrise Ithaca

• Thrive Ithaca Ecovillage Education Center

• Tompkins County Public Library 

CCE's PowerHouse will also be on site!