The goal of the digital frameworks is to provide educators with a
resource to improve understanding of climate change and sustainable
transportation, guide lesson development related to these subjects, and
to provide assistance with linking these challenging topics to various
subject-areas and content standards. The information contained within
the frameworks is what experts in these fields feel every student should
know by the time they graduate from high school. The climate change
framework was based on NOAA’s Essential Principles of Climate Literacy,
which is currently the most widely accepted framework on the subject.
We then arranged the framework to maximize usefulness in an educational
setting, and added or enhanced topics following input from educators and
a committee of climate change professionals from across the state. The
sustainable transportation framework is the first of its kind, and was
developed with input from a team of transportation experts and
educators.
The digital resource library is a one-stop-shop for quality informational
resources, educational activities, lessons, and curricula. The library
was developed in collaboration with the UW Madison Institute
for Biology Education and referenced their website: Paradise Lost? Teaching
Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: http://paradiselost2.wordpress.com/.
Resources are screened before being posted. This avoids the inherent challenges
of attempting to find high-quality resources by simply typing
“Climate Change” into a search engine. It is our hope that this resource
will save time and avoid confusion by enabling educators to easily and
efficiently access high-quality, unbiased information on the desired
subject. They can then quickly find the resources that best support
their current lesson or unit.