Climate Change Science and Solutions

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Climate Change Science and Solutions

• Creating innovative education tools for Native
  Americans and other rural Communities on the
  Colorado Plateau
• Northern Arizona University

Climate Change Education (CCE) Climate Change
Education Partnership (CCEP) Program, Phase I
(CCEP-I)
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What is Climate Science Solutions Partnership?

• CSSP is a National Science Foundation grant
  funded to create a climate change education
  program for secondary schools and communities on
  the Colorado Plateau.
• CSSP will create a regionally and culturally
  relevant climate science and solutions curriculum
  for grades 6-12.
• CSSP will produce supplemental educational
  materials such as posters and climate change
  video clips.

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What is Climate Science Solutions Partnership?

• CSSP will be implemented in two phases
• Phase one will produce a high school field test
  for a climate change curriculum community
  education programs, and regional partnerships.
• Phase two (pending funding) will produce and
  implement additional curriculum modules and will
  expand educational programs to communities and
  schools across the Colorado Plateau.

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Our Partners

1. A team of climate scientists from Northern
   Arizona University comprising biological, earth,
   and political scientists
2. Education experts promoting STEM Learning (NAU
   Center for Science Teaching and Learning,
   Applied Indigenous Studies (AIS) Institute for
   Tribal Environmental Professionals(ITEP),
   Biological Sciences Curriculum Studies (BSCS))
3. Education practitioners from 6-12 schools that
   serve Native and rural students the Diné and
   Hopi Departments of Education
4. Regional community groups dedicated to developing
   regional solutions to climate change in northern
   Arizona and on the Navajo Nation, include the
   Black Mesa Water Coalition (BMWC) and Diné
   Binaanish Yá'át'éehgo Nooséél (DBYN)/Navajo Green
   Jobs (formerly the Navajo Green Economy
   Coalition, and Tó Nizhoní Aní).

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Projected changes in median runoff for 2041-2060
relativeto1901-1970 baseline, mapped by water
region. Hatched areas indicate greater confidence
due to strong agreement among models.
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Colorado Plateau Carbon Connections Curriculum

• 10-day electronic curriculum supplemental unit
• Carbon cycle
• Carbon dioxide changes in the atmosphere
• Global and regional solutions
• Stories in Navajo language

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Curriculum Field Test Design

• 10 Teachers
• Student pre/post attitude and content
• Teacher implementation logs interview
• Classroom observations

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Field Test Data

• Inform curriculum development
• Provide feedback on how students learn
• Make recommendations for how to best involve
  native students and communities
• Data collection January March, 2012
• Data analysis March April 2012

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Kinlani Border Town Dormitory Public
Achievement

• A youth civic engagement initiative focused on
  the most basic concepts of citizenship, democracy
  and public work. Public Achievement draws on the
  talents and desires of ordinary people to build a
  better world and to create a different kind of
  politics.
• Combine the core concepts of PA CCEP and
  provide an opportunity to learn about climate
  change, how they relate to it on a personal and
  global level. Kinlani students will have the
  opportunity to work with coaches who will serve
  as mentors and guides.
• Coaches will be recruited from CHEI (Continuing
  Higher Education Indigenously) Club, Applied
  Indigenous Studies (AIS) program, Climate Science
  Solutions Masters Program, and Environmental
  Policy and Justice Department at NAU.

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Questions ??

• Are there any questions about the project or
  study design?
• What ideas do you have for community engagement
  on environmental topics such as climate change?

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Climate Change Science and Solutions
Karen Jarratt-Snider, Co-Principal
Investigator Climate Change Education
Partnership Applied Indigenous Studies Karen.Jarra
tt-Snider_at_nau.edu

• Nikki Cooley, Dine-Program Coordinator
• Climate Change Education Partnership
• Merriam Powell Center for Research
• Nikki.Cooley_at_nau.edu

• Joëlle Clark, Professional Development
  Coordinator
• Climate Change Education Partnership
• Center for Science Teaching Learning
• Joelle.Clark_at_nau.edu