Educator Workshop: Building Your Climate Data Story
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 03 – Thursday, August 05, 2021
Storytelling is a powerful and engaging tool to provide context for learning, make connections between complex concepts and real life, assess student reasoning, and recognize misconceptions. Using climate change as a broad interdisciplinary topic, participants will explore sequencing and reasoning with data through storytelling. Stories can support student learning, indoor and outdoor investigations, and lead to stewardship and civic action opportunities. Learn how to create a climate story that is supported by data, relevant to students, and leaves space for student-directed questions and learning. The facilitators will make suggestions for implementing this strategy in the classroom using the Maryland Environmental Literacy Standards as the curricular anchor. As the MD E-Lit Standards are designed to be interdisciplinary, this is a great course for all subject areas and grade bands. This workshop will take place on Tuesday, August 3, Wednesday, August 4, and Thursday, August 5 from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm.